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  • 1.  test VMFS datastore and RDM

    Posted Mar 03, 2019 02:05 PM

    Hello

    I wanted to compare performance of  VMFS Datastore vs RDM  .I used IOMETER  IOPS  and  latency measuring  in EMC Unity 300 , I created one pool that  include 8 SSD  with 100 GB LUN

    i test the performance of lun with 2 situation   ,in 1st  test  I created  VMFS  Datastore that present to  a VM  and test that with IOMETER after that in 2nd test i present LUN to vm with RDM  the result was very different.

    the specification  of IOMETER  include  :

    block size : 64kbyte

    write/read : 30/70

    random / sequential : 100/0

    I  extracted these result  for VMFS:

    total IO : 500

    latency: 3 ms

    I  extracted these result  for RDM:

    total IO: 2000

    latency: 0.3 ms

    why the values very different?