Sysbench

Benchmarking Guest on FreeNAS ZFS, bhyve and ESXi

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FreeNAS 11 introduces a GUI for FreeBSD’s bhyve hypervisor.  This is a potential replacement for the ESXi + FreeNAS All-in-One “hyper-converged storage” design. Hardware Hardware is based on my Supermicro Microserver Build Xeon D-1518 (4 physical cores, 8 threads) @ 2.2GHz 16GB DDR4 ECC memory 4 x 2TB HGST RAID-Z, 100GB Intel DC S3700s for … Read more

$5 DigitalOcean, Vultr & Lightsail Benchmarks

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Amazon Lightsail has entered the VPS market, competing directly with DigitalOcean and Vultr.  I for one welcome more competition in the $5 cloud server space.  I wanted to see how they perform so I spun up 24 cloud servers, 8 for each provider and ran some benchmarks. $5 Cloud Server Providers Compared DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Amazon … Read more