VMmark 2.1: The Industry’s Virtualisation Platform Benchmark

VMmark 2.1is the industry’s first multi-server datacentre virtualisation benchmark, which assesses the performance of a group of virtualised real world applications. It includes a variety of common platform-level workloads such as live migration of virtual machines, cloning and deploying of virtual machines, and automatic virtual machine load balancing across the datacentre. To achieve the best results, end-to-end performance from server to storage is needed. The benchmark demonstrates virtualisation and infrastructure performance as well as the agility required for cloud computing.

“Cloud computing is a key driver for the acceleration of solid-state adoption in data centres,” said Joseph Unsworth, research vice president at Gartner. “Companies that can deliver high-performance and reliable solutions at aggressive price-points are best positioned to exploit this opportunity.” 

Violin Storage at the Speed of Memory

The VMmark 2.1 results demonstrate that the Violin 6000 Series Flash Memory Arraysdeliver the industry leading IOPS and latency performance required to virtualise and consolidate demanding business critical applications and desktops. Details of this record-setting result can be found here. This result is followed with the updated dual node 2-socket record set by Cisco,earning a score of 11.32@10 tilesusing VMware vSphere 5.1.  Here is the VMmark disclosure document.

"Virtualisation and cloud performance is critical, and storage is key to enabling higher consolidation levels,” said Don Basile, CEO of Violin Memory.  “With industry leading random I/O performance, cost efficiency and sustained low latency, the Violin 6000 was the obvious storage infrastructure choice for this effort. Offering compelling IOPS per terabyte capabilities, Violin enables storage consolidation just like Cisco UCS drives server consolidation."

The Violin 6000 Series Flash Memory Arrays bring storage performance in balance with high-speed compute and networking, offering a significant opportunity for infrastructure consolidation. A single system fits in 3U of rack space and can deliver up to one million IOPS with 4 GB/sec of bandwidth – enough performance to replace multiple racks of traditional disk arrays for savings of both CAPEX and OPEX. The arrays attach to the network for shared primary storage. Multiple arrays can be clustered together to achieve petabytes (PB) of capacity and high aggregate bandwidth.

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