SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 Result ================================================================================ Dell Inc. : Dell Compellent FS8600 v2 - Two Appliances SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 = 254412 Ops/Sec (Overall Response Time = 1.71 msec) ================================================================================ Performance =========== Throughput Response (ops/sec) (msec) --------------------- ---------------- 26012 0.3 52052 0.6 78264 0.8 104324 0.9 130643 1.2 156645 2.2 183115 3.0 209093 3.2 235814 3.5 254412 3.9 ================================================================================ Product and Test Information ============================ Tested By Dell Inc. Product Name Dell Compellent FS8600 v2 - Two Appliances Hardware Available July 2013 Software Available July 2013 Date Tested May 2013 SFS License Number 55 Licensee Locations Round Rock, TX Fluid File System (FluidFS) provides scale-out network attached storage (NAS) leveraging Dell's primary storage arrays for backend block storage. FluidFS is a fully virtualized, distributed clustered file system that avoids the architectural limitations of traditional scale-up file systems. It scales performance, capacity and block vs. file needs independently while maintaining industry-leading TCO. High performance is driven by advanced caching algorithms, intelligent front and back-end load-balancing, an advanced metadata architecture and small and large-file optimizations. The FS8600 is a dual controller appliance used in conjuction with Dell Compellent Storage Center to provide CIFS /NFS access to a single virtualized pool of storage. Configuration Bill of Materials =============================== Ite m No Qty Type Vendor Model/Name Description --- --- ---- ------ ---------- ----------- 1 2 NAS Appliance Dell NAS-FS8600- FS8600 10GbE dual controller NAS 10GBE appliance 2 2 Storage Dell CT-SC8000-BASE SC8000 storage controller Controller 3 4 Disk Dell EN-SC220-1235 SC220 2U 24 2.5" drive 6Gb SAS Enclosure enclosure 4 4 Fibre Channel Dell IO-F8X2S-E-LP-D 2-port 8Gb FC low profile PCI-E Card card 5 4 SAS Card Dell IO-SAS6X4S-E2-D 4-port 6Gb PCI-E SAS card 6 12 Disk Dell 400GB SLC SSD 400GB SLC SSD 2.5" Drive 7 60 Disk Dell 1.6TB eMLC SSD 1.6TB eMLC SSD 2.5" Drive 8 1 Software Dell SW-CORE-BASE Storage Center base software license 9 7 Software Dell SW-CORE-EXP Storage Center software expansion license 10 1 Software Dell SW-DAPR-BASE Data Progression base license 11 7 Software Dell SW-DAPR-EXP Data Progression expansion license 12 2 Fibre Channel Brocad 300 24 port 8Gb FC switch Switch e 13 2 Ethernet Dell PC8024F 24 port 10Gb Ethernet switch Switch Server Software =============== OS Name and Version FluidFS v2.0.7 Other Software SCOS 6.4-pre Filesystem Software FluidFS Server Tuning ============= Name Value Description ---- ----- ----------- Storage Center volumes disabled Disable write cache for SAN volumes write cache presented from Storage Center Storage Center datapage 512KB Page size for Storage Center volumes size Server Tuning Notes ------------------- N/A Disks and Filesystems ===================== Description Number of Disks Usable Size ----------- --------------- ----------- Storage Center #1 72 42.2 TB Total 72 42.2 TB Number of Filesystems 1 Total Exported Capacity 42TB Filesystem Type FluidFS v2.0.7 Filesystem Creation Default NAS Volume with Unix security style Options Filesystem Config The SC8000 Storage Center system was configured with 72 drives, 12 SLC and 60 eMLC drives, configured in one disk pool. The SC8000 presented four 10.75TB LUNs to both FS8600 appliances. Fileset Size 30468.7 GB Storage Center SAN volumes were configured with defaults except changing the page size to be 512KB and were thinly provisioned. Data was configured to be written to the default write level of RAID10. Network Configuration ===================== Item Number of No Network Type Ports Used Notes ------ ------------ -------------- ----- 1 10GbE with jumbo frames 8 10GbE SFP+ copper 2 10GbE interconnect network 8 10GbE interconnect network Network Configuration Notes --------------------------- Of the 10GbE Ethernet ports, eight were connected to the Dell Force10 F4810 for client communications, four from each appliance. The other eight were connected to the Dell PowerConnect 8024F switches in a stack for cluster communications. Benchmark Network ================= Each load client had two ports connected to a single switch. Each client communicated with the FS8600 cluster via two subnets. The FS8600 cluster presented one NFS export from one NAS volume through all NAS controllers on all client network ports on both subnets. Processing Elements =================== Item No Qty Type Description Processing Function ---- --- ---- ----------- ------------------- 1 8 CPU Intel Xeon Quad-Core. FS8600 NAS processors (NFS, file system, 2.40GHz networking) 2 4 CPU Intel Xeon Six-Core SC8000 SAN processors (SCSI, FC, SAS, 2.5GHz RAID) Processing Element Notes ------------------------ Each NAS appliance has two controllers and each NAS controller has two quad-core processors. Each SAN controller has two six-core processors. Memory ====== Number Size of Insta Total Nonvol Description in GB nces GB atile ----------- ------ -------- ------- ------ FS8600 memory backed by integrated BPS system 24 4 96 NV System memory and read cache for SC8000 16 2 32 V controllers Grand Total Memory Gigabytes 128 Memory Notes ------------ Stable Storage ============== The write cache memory within each FS8600 is protected by internal battery and mirrored to a peer before write operations are acknowledged back to NFS clients. Write cache in the SC8000 is normally protected by a capacitor backed cache card, but write cache was disabled for this testing meaning all writes were commited to disk before being acknowledged.. System Under Test Configuration Notes ===================================== System under test consisted of two FS8600 appliances (each appliance having two controllers) in a cluster providing a single distributed file system leveraging block storage from a single SC8000 Compellent Storage Center. The block storage space from the SC8000 was combined into a single NAS pool and one NFS export was created on one NAS volume. Client connections were equally distributed across all four NAS controllers in the FS8600 cluster. Other System Notes ================== Test Environment Bill of Materials ================================== Item No Qty Vendor Model/Name Description ------ --- ------ ---------- ----------- 1 8 Dell R620 Dell 1U server dual Quad-Core 2.9GHz 64GB RAM 2 1 Dell S4810 Dell Force10 48-port 10GbE Switch Load Generators =============== LG Type Name Linux clients BOM Item # 1 Processor Name Intel Xeon Quad-Core E5-2690 Processor Speed 2.90 Number of Processors (chips) 2 Number of Cores/Chip 4 Memory Size 64 GB Operating System CentOS 6.3 2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64 Network Type Intel X520 dual-port 10GbE Load Generator (LG) Configuration ================================= Benchmark Parameters -------------------- Network Attached Storage Type NFS V3 Number of Load Generators 8 Number of Processes per LG 128 Biod Max Read Setting 2 Biod Max Write Setting 2 Block Size 256 Testbed Configuration --------------------- LG No LG Type Network Target Filesystems Notes ----- ------- ------- ------------------ ----- 1..8 Linux Client 1 /spec/nfs Export on subnet A 1..8 Linux Client 2 /spec/nfs Export on subnet B Load Generator Configuration Notes ---------------------------------- All eight load generators functioned equally to write to one NFS export across two 10GbE ports each defined on two separate subnets. Uniform Access Rule Compliance ============================== Each LG hosted 128 processes which accessed the single file system utilizing all FluidFS NAS controllers and NICs in an even manner. The FluidFS file system is distributed evenly across all NAS controllers and Storage devices. Other Notes =========== Block size for NFS mount configured to 256KB. ================================================================================ Generated on Thu May 30 11:27:46 2013 by SPECsfs2008 ASCII Formatter Copyright (C) 1997-2008 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation