SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 Result

EMC Isilon : S210-2U-Dual-256GB-2x1GE-2x10GE SFP+-14TB-800GB SSD - 14 Nodes
SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 = 253357 Ops/Sec (Overall Response Time = 1.18 msec)


Performance

Throughput
(ops/sec)
Response
(msec)
25504 0.7
51054 0.6
76667 0.7
102288 0.8
127879 0.9
153497 1.0
179261 1.2
205226 1.4
231069 2.0
253357 5.7
Performance Graph


Product and Test Information

Tested By EMC Isilon
Product Name S210-2U-Dual-256GB-2x1GE-2x10GE SFP+-14TB-800GB SSD - 14 Nodes
Hardware Available July 2014
Software Available July 2014
Date Tested June 2014
SFS License Number 47
Licensee Locations Hopkinton, MA

The Isilon S210, built on Isilon's proven scale-out storage platform, provides enterprises with industry-leading IO/s from a single file system, single volume. The S210 accelerates business and increases speed-to-market by providing scalable, high performance storage for mission critical and highly transactional applications. In addition, the single filesystem, single volume, and linear scalability of the OneFS operating system enables enterprises to scale storage seamlessly with their environment and application while maintaining flat operational expenses. The S210 is based on enterprise-class 2.5" 10,000 RPM Serial Attached SCSI drive technology, 10GbE Ethernet networking, and a high performance Infiniband back-end. The S210 scales from as few as 3 nodes to as a high as 144 nodes in a single file system, single volume.

Configuration Bill of Materials

Item No Qty Type Vendor Model/Name Description
1 14 Storage Node Isilon S210-2U-Dual-256GB-2x1GE-2x10GE SFP+-14TB-800GB SSD S210 14TB SAS + 800GB SSD Storage node
2 14 Software License Isilon OneFS 7.1.1 OneFS 7.1.1 License
3 1 Infiniband Switch QLogic 12200-18 18 Port QDR Infiniband Switch

Server Software

OS Name and Version OneFS 7.1.1
Other Software N/A
Filesystem Software OneFS

Server Tuning

Name Value Description
efs.journal.flush_idle 0 avoid background journal flushes under low load
access pattern random disable data prefetch

Server Tuning Notes

N/A

Disks and Filesystems

Description Number of Disks Usable Size
600GB SAS 10k RPM Disk Drives 322 173.0 TB
800GB SSD 14 10.0 TB
Total 336 183.0 TB
Number of Filesystems 1
Total Exported Capacity 145TB
Filesystem Type IFS
Filesystem Creation Options Default
Filesystem Config 16+2/2 Parity protected (default)
Fileset Size 29880.5 GB

SSD Policy set to metadata-write acceleration, L3 Cache disabled, File data is striped across all 14 nodes using at most 2 drives per node for a given protection group, thus protecting against 2 drives failures or one full node failure

Network Configuration

Item No Network Type Number of Ports Used Notes
1 Single 10GbE interface configured on each node, 1500 MTU 14 10GbE SFP+ PCIe NIC

Network Configuration Notes

All nodes and clients are connected to an Arista Networks DCS-7150S-64-CL

Benchmark Network

Each load generator and each S210 storage node was configured with a single 10GbE, 1500 MTU connection to the Arista Switch.

Processing Elements

Item No Qty Type Description Processing Function
1 28 CPU Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz Network, NFS, Filesystem, Device Drivers

Processing Element Notes

Each storage node has 2 physical processors with 6 cores and SMT enabled

Memory

Description Size in GB Number of Instances Total GB Nonvolatile
Storage Node System Memory 256 14 3584 V
Storage Node Integrated NVRAM module with Vault-to-Flash 2 14 28 NV
Grand Total Memory Gigabytes     3612  

Memory Notes

Each storage controller has main memory that is used for the operating system and for caching filesystem data. A separate, integrated battery-backed RAM module is used to provide stable storage for writes that have not yet been written to disk.

Stable Storage

Each storage node is equipped with an nvram journal that stores writes to the local disks. The nvram has backup power to save data to dedicated on-card flash in the event of power-loss.

System Under Test Configuration Notes

The system under test consisted of 14 S210 storage nodes, 2U each, connected by QDR Infiniband. Each storage node was configured with a single 10GbE network interface connected to a 10GbE switch.

Other System Notes

Test Environment Bill of Materials

Item No Qty Vendor Model/Name Description
1 7 Intel S2600WP dual 6-core E5-2630 0 @ 2.30GHz, 48GB RAM Blade system
2 1 Arista Networks DCS-7150S-64-CL Arista Networks DCS-7150S-64-CL

Load Generators

LG Type Name LG1
BOM Item # 1
Processor Name Intel Xeon E5-2630 0
Processor Speed 2.30GHz
Number of Processors (chips) 2
Number of Cores/Chip 6
Memory Size 48 GB
Operating System CentOS release 6.5 kernel 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64
Network Type Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit

Load Generator (LG) Configuration

Benchmark Parameters

Network Attached Storage Type NFS V3
Number of Load Generators 7
Number of Processes per LG 192
Biod Max Read Setting 2
Biod Max Write Setting 2
Block Size AUTO

Testbed Configuration

LG No LG Type Network Target Filesystems Notes
1..7 LG1 1 /ifs/data  

Load Generator Configuration Notes

All clients were connected to a single filesystem through all storage nodes

Uniform Access Rule Compliance

Each load-generating client hosted 192 processes. The assignment of processes to network interfaces was done such that they were evenly divided across all network paths to the storage controllers. The filesystem data was striped evenly across all disks and storage nodes

Other Notes

Config Diagrams


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