In some previous articles I described Fusion-IO technology and how to install on of their card in a ESXi server. In this post, as many of you were waiting for, it’s time to run some performance tests and see what is able to do this product.

For my tests I used VMware I/O Analyzer, a ready-to-run appliance specifically designed to do benchmarks. It can be installed in few minutes in a ESXi server and it can run several I/O tests on the storage is deployed upon.

 

Some preliminary notes about my WhiteBox, that is not a real server…

Fusion-IO cards have incredibly high More >