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SPC performance report SilvertonConsulting,Inc.StorInt™DispatchThisStorageIntelligence(StorInt™)dispatchcoversStoragePerformanceCouncil(SPC)results1.TherehavebeenfournewSPC-1/1EandnonewSPC-2submissionssinceourreportlastMay.ThenewSPC-1/1EresultsarefortheDataCoreParallelServer&SANSymphony-V10.0,IBMStorwizeV5030andLenovoStorageS2200.Thedisk-only,IBMStorwizesubmissionwasrunwithVersion3oftheSPC-1benchmark,sofornowwearenotincludingitinourotheranalysis.Theother3newSPC-1submissionswereallAFAs.
SPC-1resultsWebeginourdiscussionwithtoptenSPC-1LRT™(LeastResponseTime)resultsshowninFigure1.
Figure1Top10SPC-1LRTresults
1AllSPCresultsavailablefromhttp://www.storageperformance.org/home/asof24Aug2016
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ThepreviouslysubmittedDataCoreSANSymphony-V10.0isournew#1withan80µsecLRT,thenewlysubmittedSANSymphony-V10.0cameinat#2andtheDataCoreParallelServerisournew#3with90µsecand120µsecLRTrespectively.UnclearwhyDataCoresubmittedanotherSANSymphony-V10.0benchmarkandalsowhytheyinactivatedtheirpreviousParallelServerbenchmarkwhileaddinganewonehere.Butbethatasitmay,DataCorecurrentlyholdsthetop3bestLRT’sinSPC-1.BothSANSymphony-VsubmissionsaresoftwaredefinedstoragesolutionswiththeSCP-1benchmarkandtheSSDstoragerunninginthesameservers.TheParallelServerisamorenormalstorageconfigurationwithFCconnectionstobenchmarkserversandSASconnectionstobackendDellMD1220SSDJBODs.Theyhad~17.3TBofSSDssplitacrosstheParallelServerandtheDellJBODs.Next,weturntoSPC-1toptenIOPS™inFigure2.
Figure2SPC-1Top10IOPS™
Asonecansee,theDataCoreParallelServerhasexceeded5MIOPSinSPC-1,whichisprettyphenomenalconsideringthenextbestcontender(HuaweiOceanStor)barelyreached3MIOPS.ThenewDataCoreSANSymphony-V10.0cameinat#6with~1.2MIOPS.Thereareonly3systemsintheIOPStoptenthathaveanydisksatall,theDataCoreParallelServer(#1),theHuaweiOceanStor18800(#7)andtheir6800v3(#10).FortheParallelServertherewas
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relativelylittlediskstorage(~2TBdisk/~17TBSSD),whereasbothOceanStorsystemshadplentifuldiskstorageandrelativelylittleSSDstorage.TherestofthesystemsinFigure2areAFA.InFigure3weprovidethetopten$/IOPSorSPC-1PricePerformance™.
Figure3SPC-1Top$/IOPS
WecanseetwonewsubmissionsinFigure3.At#2isDataCoreParallelServer,andat#3istheLenovoStorageS2200.TheLenovoStoragehasdualcontrollerswith8GBcachetotalthatisSASconnectedtothebenchmarkserverswith4-400GBSSDs.WhytheLenovocontrollerswouldbeSASconnectedtothehostsisanopenquestionbutit’soneofthefewSPC-1submissionshavingbothaSASconnectionto(12Gb)hostsand(6Gb)drives.Finally,weshowinFigure4ourIOPS/GB-NANDchart.
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Figure4IOPS/GB-NAND
InFigure4,theDataCoreParallelServerisdoing~296IOPS/GB-NANDandgenerating~5MIOPSwiththeir~25.9TBofNAND.TheSANSymphony-Vcominginat#5,wastheoldersubmission.Still,DataCorewithaFCattachedstoragesystemwasabletoachieve~2XtheIOPS/GB-NANDofthenextbestsubmission(EMCVNX8000).WearestilltryingtodeterminethebestwaytodepictIOPS/FlasheffectivityandhaveusedIOPS/SSDaswellinthepast.NeitherIOPS/GB-NANDorIOPS/SSDseemstotellthewholestoryasofyet.Andwithhighcapacity(15TB-30TB)SSDscomingoutthisyear,itwillbeveryinterestingtoseehowtheyperformwitheithermetric.Although,barringamiracle,we’reunlikelytoseeanSPC-1submissionwithoneoftheseforalongtime.
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SignificanceNotsurewhattodowiththeSPC-1Version3IBMStorwizeV5030submission.UntilIseehowtheworkloadhasbeenchangedwewillleaveVersion3submissionsinitsowncategoryandnotreportonthemwithVersion1submissions.Version3reportinghascertainlychangedforthebetterandwelovethesupplementalinformationprovidedwiththesesubmissions.AFA’scontinuetodominateSPC-1submissions.Stillit’ssurprisingtocontinuetoseeanytop10IOPShybridsubmissionsbuttheyareslowlybeingpushedoffthelist.LRTtop10haslongbeenruledbyAFAandit’slikelywewillneverseeadiskorhybridsolutionmakeittothetop10inLRTeveragain.Asalways,suggestionsonhowtoimproveanyofourperformanceanalysesarewelcomed.Additionally,ifyouareinterestedinmoreblockstorageperformanceinformation,checkoutourrecentlyupdated(August,2016),SANStorageBuyingGuideavailableforpurchasefromourwebsite2.IntheSANStorageBuyingGuidewenowprovidetop30resultsforsomeofourSPCperformancechartsandnew,SCIderived,OLTP,ThroughputandEmailChampionsCharts™forenterprise,all-flash,mid-rangeandSMBclassSANstoragesystems.
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