SPECsfs97_R1.v3 Result

BlueArc Corporation :	Titan 3210 Cluster
SPECsfs97_R1.v3 =	359416 Ops/Sec (Overall Response Time = 2.16 msec)

Performance

Throughput (ops/sec)	Response (msec)
35715	0.5
71608	0.8
107518	1.2
143980	1.5
179731	1.9
216111	2.4
252394	2.9
288796	3.5
324745	4.1
359416	5.8

Configuration

Server Configuration and Availability
Vendor	BlueArc Corporation
Hardware Available	March 2008
Software Available	May 2008
Date Tested	April 2008
SFS License Number	000063
Licensee Locations	San Jose, CA

CPU, Memory and Power

Model Name Titan 3210 Cluster

Processor AMD Opteron 248 2.2Ghz + FPGAs

# of Processors 2 cores, 2 chips, 1 core/chip + 26 FPGAs

Primary Cache 128KB(I+D) on chip (per chip)

Secondary Cache 1MB(I+D) on chip (per chip)

Other Cache 32 GB

UPS N/A

Other Hardware N/A

Memory Size 134 GB (incl. other_cache_size, nvram_size and raid controller cache.)

NVRAM Size 8 GB

NVRAM Type DIMM

NVRAM Description 72 hour battery backed

Server Software

OS Name and Version SU 5.2

Other Software N/A

File System BlueArc Silicon File System with Cluster Name Space (CNS)

NFS version 3

Server Tuning

Buffer Cache Size N/A

# NFS Processes N/A

Fileset Size 3432.9 GB

Network Subsystem
Network Type	Integrated
Network Controller Desc.	2-port, 10Gbps Ethernet (only one port was used per node)
Number Networks	1 (N0)
Number Network Controllers	2
Protocol Type	TCP

Switch Type 1 Force10 S2410 10GigE

Bridge Type N/A

Hub Type N/A

Other Network Hardware N/A

Disk Subsystem and Filesystems

Number Disk Controllers 2

Number of Disks 640

Number of Filesystems 1 (F1)

File System Creation Ops 4KB block size

File System Config 20 Individual file system volumes aggregated using CNS to present a single, unified namespace

Disk Controller Integrated eight port 4Gbps FC

# of Controller Type 2

Number of Disks 320

Disk Type ST373455FC

File Systems on Disks F1

Special Config Notes see notes

Load Generator (LG) Configuration
Number of Load Generators	12
Number of Processes per LG	160
Biod Max Read Setting	2
Biod Max Write Setting	2

LG Type LG0

LG Model White Box, Tyan S2915 motherboard

Number and Type Processors Dual Opteron 2218 dual core, 2.6Ghz

Memory Size 8 GB

Operating System Solaris 10 u4

Compiler SFS97_R1 precompiled binaries

Compiler Options N/A

Network Type Myricom 10GigE

Testbed Configuration

LG # LG Type Network Target File Systems Notes

1-12 LG0 N0 /r/f1, /r/f2, /r/f3, /r/f4, /r/f5, /r/f6, /r/f7, /r/f8, /r/f9, /r/f10, /r/f11, /r/f12, /r/f13, /r/f14, /r/f15, /r/f16, /r/f17, /r/f18, /r/f19, /r/f20, /r/f1, /r/f2, /r/f3, /r/f4, /r/f5, /r/f6, /r/f7, /r/f8, /r/f9, /r/f10, /r/f11, /r/f12, /r/f13, /r/f14, /r/f15, /r/f16, /r/f17, /r/f18, /r/f19, /r/f20, /r/f1, /r/f2, /r/f3, /r/f4, /r/f5, /r/f6, /r/f7, /r/f8, /r/f9, /r/f10, /r/f11, /r/f12, /r/f13, /r/f14, /r/f15, /r/f16, /r/f17, /r/f18, /r/f19, /r/f20, /r/f1, /r/f2, /r/f3, /r/f4, /r/f5, /r/f6, /r/f7, /r/f8, /r/f9, /r/f10, /r/f11, /r/f12, /r/f13, /r/f14, /r/f15, /r/f16, /r/f17, /r/f18, /r/f19, /r/f20, /r/f1, /r/f2, /r/f3, /r/f4, /r/f5, /r/f6, /r/f7, /r/f8, /r/f9, /r/f10, /r/f11, /r/f12, /r/f13, /r/f14, /r/f15, /r/f16, /r/f17, /r/f18, /r/f19, /r/f20, /r/f1, /r/f2, /r/f3, /r/f4, /r/f5, /r/f6, /r/f7, /r/f8, /r/f9, /r/f10, /r/f11, /r/f12, /r/f13, /r/f14, /r/f15, /r/f16, /r/f17, /r/f18, /r/f19, /r/f20, /r/f1, /r/f2, /r/f3, /r/f4, /r/f5, /r/f6, /r/f7, /r/f8, /r/f9, /r/f10, /r/f11, /r/f12, /r/f13, /r/f14, /r/f15, /r/f16, /r/f17, /r/f18, /r/f19, /r/f20, /r/f1, /r/f2, /r/f3, /r/f4, /r/f5, /r/f6, /r/f7, /r/f8, /r/f9, /r/f10, /r/f11, /r/f12, /r/f13, /r/f14, /r/f15, /r/f16, /r/f17, /r/f18, /r/f19, /r/f20 LG0

Testbed Configuration
LG #	LG Type	Network	Target File Systems	Notes
1-12	LG0	N0	/r/f1, /r/f2, /r/f3, /r/f4, /r/f5, /r/f6, /r/f7, /r/f8, /r/f9, /r/f10, /r/f11, /r/f12, /r/f13, /r/f14, /r/f15, /r/f16, /r/f17, /r/f18, /r/f19, /r/f20, /r/f1, /r/f2, /r/f3, /r/f4, /r/f5, /r/f6, /r/f7, /r/f8, /r/f9, /r/f10, /r/f11, /r/f12, /r/f13, /r/f14, /r/f15, /r/f16, /r/f17, /r/f18, /r/f19, /r/f20, /r/f1, /r/f2, /r/f3, /r/f4, /r/f5, /r/f6, /r/f7, /r/f8, /r/f9, /r/f10, /r/f11, /r/f12, /r/f13, /r/f14, /r/f15, /r/f16, /r/f17, /r/f18, /r/f19, /r/f20, /r/f1, /r/f2, /r/f3, /r/f4, /r/f5, /r/f6, /r/f7, /r/f8, /r/f9, /r/f10, /r/f11, /r/f12, /r/f13, /r/f14, /r/f15, /r/f16, /r/f17, /r/f18, /r/f19, /r/f20, /r/f1, /r/f2, /r/f3, /r/f4, /r/f5, /r/f6, /r/f7, /r/f8, /r/f9, /r/f10, /r/f11, /r/f12, /r/f13, /r/f14, /r/f15, /r/f16, /r/f17, /r/f18, /r/f19, /r/f20, /r/f1, /r/f2, /r/f3, /r/f4, /r/f5, /r/f6, /r/f7, /r/f8, /r/f9, /r/f10, /r/f11, /r/f12, /r/f13, /r/f14, /r/f15, /r/f16, /r/f17, /r/f18, /r/f19, /r/f20, /r/f1, /r/f2, /r/f3, /r/f4, /r/f5, /r/f6, /r/f7, /r/f8, /r/f9, /r/f10, /r/f11, /r/f12, /r/f13, /r/f14, /r/f15, /r/f16, /r/f17, /r/f18, /r/f19, /r/f20, /r/f1, /r/f2, /r/f3, /r/f4, /r/f5, /r/f6, /r/f7, /r/f8, /r/f9, /r/f10, /r/f11, /r/f12, /r/f13, /r/f14, /r/f15, /r/f16, /r/f17, /r/f18, /r/f19, /r/f20	LG0

Other Notes

The tested system was a cluster of two (2) BlueArc Titan 3210 servers connected via Fibre Channel fabric to ten (10) storage arrays. Each array consisted of 1 BlueArc RC16TB (LSI 3992) Dual RAID controller with 64 FC drives. Each Dual RAID controller set has 2GB memory, for a total of 20GB cashe memory across all storage controllers. RAID controller cache memory is included in the 134GB memory size listed above.
The Titan server had all standard protection services enabled, including RAID, NVRAM logging, and media error scrubbing.
Titan 3210 uses 13 Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to accelerate processing of network traffic and file system I/O.
Disk drives used were 73GB, 15,000 RPM, 4GB-FC Seagate ST373455FC drives.
Disk and FS configuration was 32 "1+1" RAID-1 LUs per RAID Controller pair. Each RAID Controller pair represented one Storage Pool created by striping across the 32 LUs. (striping parameters are fixed and not under user control.) Two file systems were created within each Storage Pool. The twenty (20) file systems were aggregated to a single namespace "/r" using BlueArc's Cluster Namespace (CNS) feature.
The storage arrays were connected to the Titan server using redundant Brocade 200E FC switches with dual redundant connections to each array.
The Titan 3210 server cluster is connected to 12 Load Generators via 10GigE (end to end) through a single Force10 S2410 switch.
For Uniform Access Rule compliance all LG's accessed all cluster namespace objects uniformly across all interfaces as follows:
- There is 1 network node (i.e., Titan 3210 server cluster): T0
- There are 20 physical target file systems (/r/f1…./r/f20) presented as a single cluster name space (F1) with virtual root “/r” accessible to all clients.
- Each Titan 3110 had a single Virtual Server configured, and each Virtual Server owned ten (10) of the twenty (20) total file systems in the cluster.
- Each Load Generator (1-12) mounted to each file system target (/r/f*) and cycled through the target file systems /r/f1, /r/f2, /r/f3, etc. in sequence.
Titan 3210 contains four modules that perform all the storage operations, as follows: NIM3 = Network Interface Module (TCP/IP, UDP handling); FSX1 and FSB3 = File System Modules (NFS and CIFS protocol handling, plus cluster interconnect on FSB3); and SIM3=Storage Interface Module (Disk controller / FC interface)
Titan 3210 has 57 gigabytes (GB) of memory, cache and NVRAM distributed within the Titan modules as follows:
- NIM3 - 3.5 GB memory per Titan
- FSX1 - 2.0 GB memory per Titan
- FSB3 - 30.5 GB memory per Titan, of which 4.0 is NVRAM and 24.0 is FS metadata cache. The remaining amount is used for buffering data moving to/from the disk drives and/or network.
- SIM3 - 21 GB memory per Titan, of which 16.0 is "sector" cache used for interface with RAID controllers and disk subsystem. This is the "other cache size" in the Titan as noted above.
For "stable storage" requirement, the Titan server writes first to battery backed (72 hours) NVRAM internal to the Titan. Data from NVRAM is then written to the the drive arrays as convenient, but always within a few seconds of arrival in NVRAM.
Server tuning:
- Disable file read-ahead, "read ahead -- disable"
- Disable shortname generation for CIFS clients "shortname -g off"
- Server running in "Native Unix" security mode, "security-mode set unix".
- Set metadata cache bias to small files: "cache-bias --small-files"
- Accessed time management was turned off: "fs-accessed-time set off"
- Jumbo frames were enabled.

First published at SPEC.org on 18-Jun-2008

LG Type	LG0
LG Model	White Box, Tyan S2915 motherboard
Number and Type Processors	Dual Opteron 2218 dual core, 2.6Ghz
Memory Size	8 GB
Operating System	Solaris 10 u4
Compiler	SFS97_R1 precompiled binaries
Compiler Options	N/A
Network Type	Myricom 10GigE