Oracle cloud Australia launched in August 2019, they are the new comer after Google, AWS and Azure.
Recently we have done a quick test on the VM.Standard2.1 (intel) instance, due to it has 15GB ram, 1Gbps Link and , which is filling gap of E2.1 and E2.2 shape in Oracle Cloud.
INSTANCE SPECIFICATION
| Shape | vCore | RAM (GB) | Disk (GB) | Up-Link | IPV4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E2.1 | 2 | 8 | 256 | 0.7 Gbps | 1 |
| 2.1 | 2 | 15 | 256 | 1 Gbps | 1 |
| E2.2 | 4 | 16 | 256 | 1.4 Gbps | 1 |
| E2.1.Micro | 2 | 1 | 50 | 0.48 Gbps | 1 |
TEST ENVIRONMENT SETUP
We have setup a windows 2019 standard for this test. We are using winsat for disk i/o test, Geekbench for CPU test and speedtest.net for internet speed test. e2.1-Micro is tested differently.
DISK SPEED TEST
We use built-in winsat disk to test the storage performance on vm standard 2.1 instance. The result has shown the speed on the instance is slower than one of server 2019 virtual machine hosting on a 1TB Samsung 860evo ssd sata3. e2.2 has the best speed on the plans.
| Test item | 2.1 | e2.2 | e2.1 | 860evo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Random 16.0 Read MB/s | 134.02 | 142.87 | 120.55 | 205.03 |
| Sequential 64.0 Read MB/s | 410.41 | 424.01 | 285.45 | 845.41 |
| Sequential 64.0 Write MB/s | 130.18 | 127.50 | 120.06 | 755.63 |
You may notice all the online storage block here is slower than a 1TB Samsung 860EVO SATA3 SSD, the plan intel 2.1 and e2.1 is lower grade than 2.2 and and e2.1-micro is 60MB/s. The block looks like a spinning HDD speed, but it is not, that is a performance optimization storage, so if your application required higher performance, the block will adjust the IOPS performance on Oracle. And the larger storage, the better IOPS will be given.
CPU & TASK TEST
Next, we use Geekbench scan and verify the sysinfo, it has shown Intel Skylake-SP Socket 3647 LGA @2.0Ghz, MAX @2.4Ghz on the system, assuming all the standard intel plan on the same cpu.
After a few minutes, Geekbench from a score board for 606 single-core score and 710 Multi-core Score and a report can also view from https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/10387640
| Shape | 1 core | multi-core | Result ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1 | 606 | 710 | 10387640 |
| e2.2 | 545 | 1420 | 10383546 |
| e2.1 | 426 | 763 | 10385749 |
The single core has higher score in Intel’s vm standard 21 shape. However, The best result in multi-core is e2.2. In the result of Intel’s vm standard 21 shape, AES-XTS is 1.79GB/sec and compression in text is 4.4 MB/s and Image is 37.7 MP/s, Html5 is 0.642 ME/s. This result cannot beat the e2.2 shape, but clearly win the e2.1 shape which also have 2 vCore (less ram).
| Shape | AES-XTS | Text | Image | HTML5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1 | 1.79GB/s | 4.4MB/s | 37.7MP/s | 0.642ME/s |
| e2.2 | 4.76GB/s | 6.09MB/s | 60.3MP/s | 1.39ME/s |
| e2.1 | 1.24GB/s | 2.19MB/s | 21.9MP/s | 0.38ME/s |
The result in 2.1 shape test is 23.2 Img/s in machine learning and 4.21 Img/s in face detection.
INTERNET SPEED TEST
If you are not change your region, the speed test on standard 2.1 intel shape has shown a limit on 500Mbps link, which is same as e2.1 is 500Mbps link. However, e2.2 is 1Gbps link (this maybe reached the targeted test server limit). The other difference is the local network connection according to specification (https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Compute/References/computeshapes.htm).
The best speed result from intel 2.1 shape (onshore)
| Location | ISP | Ping | DL Mbps | UL Mbps | Result ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melbourne | Telstra | 1ms | 486.36 | 221.24 | 12177489165 |
| Sydney | Telstra | 12ms | 509.70 | 283.65 | 12177499762 |
| Brisbane | Telstra | 26ms | 487.73 | 294.61 | 12177514169 |
| Perth | Telstra | 39ms | 486.27 | 281.40 | 12177518742 |
| Canberra | Telstra | 20ms | 486.33 | 243.65 | 12177525591 |
| Darwin | Telstra | 40ms | 432.56 | 270.27 | 12177530373 |
| Hobart | Telstra | 11ms | 498.84 | 286.50 | 12177534404 |
| Adelaide | Telstra | 9ms | 496.89 | 304.50 | 12177538563 |
The best speed result from intel 2.1 shape (offshore)
| Location | ISP | Ping | DL Mbps | UL Mbps | Result ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auckland | Spark | 38ms | 489.48 | 280.13 | 12177544832 |
| Singapore | Singtel | 85ms | 316.65 | 113.66 | 12177549465 |
| Hong Kong | HGC | 139ms | 377.40 | 109.65 | 12177556047 |
| Tokyo | GLBB | 184ms | 65.20 | 74.20 | 12177561500 |
| Berlin | Sewan | 320ms | 319.49 | 11.06 | 12177567102 |
| London | VOX | 289ms | 252.40 | 67.69 | 12177574105 |
| Los Angeles | 2deg. | 160ms | 288.59 | 72.20 | 12177580151 |
| New York | Spect. | 233ms | 250.01 | 23.33 | 12177587589 |
In conclusion, the rule “more resource give you higher performance” will be applied, even there is an Intel. The best value? intel 2.1 shape everything is slower than e2.2, cannot see the benefit on 15GB memory, as a result e2.2 is the clear winner here to run a internet host, it has 1Gbps link, same disk speed and space as e2.4, only cores and memory are less than e2.4.