The folks at Xsigo have done some performance benchmarking -- on their own server fabric but still, in this emerging space, numbers are still hard to come by and these illustrate some of what’s possible as the industry moves in this direction.
This is a really short write-up they did with info on the test bed, the tests performed and some graphs and screenshots, but the summary results show that compared to 1G and 10G Ethernet, the Xsigo ServerFabric delivered:
- 2.4X the Ethernet traffic of a 10G Ethernet connection (throughput to a single virtual machine)
- 20Gbps throughput measured to a single NIC on a single virtual machine
- 15X faster vMotion than1G Ethernet
- 67% faster vMotion than 10G Ethernet
In performance benchmark testing, the Xsigo Server Fabric demonstrated significantly higher network device throughput as compared to 1G Ethernet and 10G Ethernet server connections.
XsigoServerFabricPerformanceTestResults.pdf
