Slowness of Disk IO wih VPS Proxmox VE 4.2 (64bits) installation

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I just installed Proxmox VE 4.2 (64bits). the VMs Disk I/O speed is about 50% or less than old VMware ESXI5.0. How it can be resolved?

HardDisk: SATA
Cache: Default(no cache)
No backup: no
Discard: no
IO thread: no
Format: QEMO (qcow2)

Code:
RAID1 on sda and sdb
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root@:~# smartctl --all /dev/sda
smartctl 6.4 2014-10-07 r4002 [x86_64-linux-4.4.6-1-pve] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Toshiba 3.5" HDD DT01ACA...
Device Model:     TOSHIBA DT01ACA200
Serial Number:    73UUD3XXX
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000039 ff3d9axxx
Firmware Version: MX4OABB0
User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    7200 rpm
Form Factor:      3.5 inches
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Mon May  9 07:08:28 2016 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x84) Offline data collection activity
                                        was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0) The previous self-test routine completed
                                        without error or no self-test has ever
                                        been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection:                (14726) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:                    (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                                        Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new
                                        command.
                                        Offline surface scan supported.
                                        Self-test supported.
                                        No Conveyance Self-test supported.
                                        Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
                                        power-saving mode.
                                        Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
                                        General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (   1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        ( 246) minutes.
SCT capabilities:              (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
                                        SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
                                        SCT Feature Control supported.
                                        SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000b   100   100   016    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  2 Throughput_Performance  0x0005   140   140   054    Pre-fail  Offline      -       68
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   128   128   024    Pre-fail  Always       -       295 (Average 295)
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       88
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   005    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000b   100   100   067    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0005   126   126   020    Pre-fail  Offline      -       32
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0012   097   097   000    Old_age   Always       -       23404
10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   060    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       88
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       95
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       95
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0002   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       30 (Min/Max 21/42)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0008   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     18232         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     18229         -
# 3  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     18229         -
# 4  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     16407         -
# 5  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     16404         -
# 6  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     16404         -
# 7  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     16350         -
# 8  Short offline       Completed without error       00%        38         -
# 9  Short offline       Completed without error       00%        31         -
#10  Short offline       Completed without error       00%        18         -
#11  Short offline       Completed without error       00%         1         -
#12  Short offline       Completed without error       00%         0         -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
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root@:~# smartctl --all /dev/sdb
almost the same as above
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root@:~# pveperf
CPU BOGOMIPS:      54397.20
REGEX/SECOND:      1720033
HD SIZE:           19.10 GB (/dev/md2)
BUFFERED READS:    67.12 MB/sec
AVERAGE SEEK TIME: 8.56 ms
FSYNCS/SECOND:     26.65
DNS EXT:           22.03 ms
DNS INT:           4.15 ms (ip-37-xxx.eu)
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root@:~# vgscan
  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
  Found volume group "pve" using metadata type lvm2
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root@:~# hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads:   28326 MB in  2.00 seconds = 14178.68 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 544 MB in  3.00 seconds = 181.29 MB/sec
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root@:~# hdparm -tT /dev/sdb

/dev/sdb:
Timing cached reads:   28740 MB in  2.00 seconds = 14385.95 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 548 MB in  3.01 seconds = 182.04 MB/sec
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root@:~# pveversion --verbose
proxmox-ve: 4.2-48 (running kernel: 4.4.6-1-pve)
pve-manager: 4.2-2 (running version: 4.2-2/725d76f0)
pve-kernel-4.4.6-1-pve: 4.4.6-48
pve-kernel-4.2.8-1-pve: 4.2.8-41
lvm2: 2.02.116-pve2
corosync-pve: 2.3.5-2
libqb0: 1.0-1
pve-cluster: 4.0-39
qemu-server: 4.0-72
pve-firmware: 1.1-8
libpve-common-perl: 4.0-59
libpve-access-control: 4.0-16
libpve-storage-perl: 4.0-50
pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.5-2
vncterm: 1.2-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 2.5-14
pve-container: 1.0-62
pve-firewall: 2.0-25
pve-ha-manager: 1.0-28
ksm-control-daemon: 1.2-1
glusterfs-client: 3.5.2-2+deb8u1
lxc-pve: 1.1.5-7
lxcfs: 2.0.0-pve2
cgmanager: 0.39-pve1
criu: 1.6.0-1
zfsutils: 0.6.5-pve9~jessie
 
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