OVER 1 MILLION IOPS FROM A SINGLE VM

TechEd Europe 2012 in Amsterdam. Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V delivering over 1 million IOPs from a single virtual machine.

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V delivering over 1 million IOPs from a single virtual machine

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ch9Live/Channel-9-Live-at-Tech-Ed-North-America-2012/Straight-Talk-about-Hyper-V-and-Beyond-with-Jeff-Woolsey

Hardware Config:

•Industry Standard 4 Socket Server

   –80 Logical Processors (10 cores + SMT)

   –256 GB of physical memory

   –Direct Attached Storage

   –5 LSI HBA with 40 SSDs

•VM configured with:

   –64 Virtual Processors

   –64 GB of memory

•IOmeter

   –4k, Random IO, Queue Depth =32, 40 concurrent threads

Industry Leading IO Performance

•VM storage performance on par with native

•Performance scales linearly with increase in virtual processors

•Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V can virtualize over 99% of the world’s SQL Server.