- ASUS P6X58D Premium
- Intel i7-930 (running OC @ 4.00GHz)
- 12GB of DDR3-1600 G.Skill F3-12800CL9T-6GBNQ
- Two ATi HD5770 1GB GPUs in CrossFireX config (2xPCIe 16x)
- 4x Samsung HD103SJ (on an ICH10r in RAID-0 and RAID-5 groups)
- ASUS Xonar Essence STX
The main purpose of the high specs was simple: VMware.
This build supports VMware ESXi straight out of the box (including things such as VT-d). Only the onboard Marvell 88E8056 NICs needed to have special oem.tgz injected into the ESXi disk in order to install (since ESXi will not install without seeing a MAC address on a NIC). Note that ICH10R's RAID is Not supported under ESXi (this is the case with any onboard RAID controllers).
I must admit expenses were high but are well worth it for running various VMs under VMware. Finally PCs have become powerful enough for properly running ages old VMware (and virtualisation concepts in general). VMware makes experimenting with various OSes and software stacks tremendously easy and flexible. Creating an Active/Active Veritas Cluster Server with SCSI3-PGR iSCSI fencing compliant storage no longer requires hefty non-x86 CPUs and hardware RAIDs.
Some very exciting benchmarks follow for 4x Samsung HD103SJ on a ICH10R...
Read/Write test of RAID-0 (striping), 128K width, with write back cache ON, NTFS filesystem benchmark (4096 allocation unit size):
Write test of RAID-0 (striping), 128K width, with write back cache OFF:
Read test of RAID-0 (striping), 128K width, with write back cache OFF:
Write test of RAID-0 (striping), 128K width, with write back cache ON:
Read test of RAID-0 (striping), 128K width, with write back cache ON:
Write test of RAID-5, 128K width, with write back cache OFF:
Read test of RAID-5, 128K width, with write back cache OFF:
Write test of RAID-5, 128K width, with write back cache ON:
Read test of RAID-5, 128K width, with write back cache ON:
1 comment:
very nice ruski, know you can take over a small country with your super computer,like Armenia.
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