Michal Svec, a Senior Product Manager at SUSE, writes about new technology in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 in a blog post:
There’s a new breakthrough technology available as a Technology Preview in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack3 (SP3). It’s called “virtio-blk-data-plane”—and you’ve probably never heard of it. But it deserves a fanfare because it gives KVM the ability to handle unprecedented storage I/O rates more than 50% higher than its competition. This is important for running the most demanding mission-critical workloads—like databases, ERP, and low-latency financial trading applications—because previous technologies weren’t fast enough to process them competitively in virtual or cloud environments.
Read, Svec’s blog, “Blowing the I/O Performance Doors Off with KVM and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3,” here.