SPEC SFS®2014_swbuild Result: WekaIO

WekaIO	SPEC SFS2014_swbuild = 500 Builds
WekaIO Matrix	Overall Response Time = 3.06 msec

WekaIO Matrix
Tested by	WekaIO
Hardware Available	Not Applicable
Software Available	April 2017
Date Tested	June 2017
License Number	4553
Licensee Locations	San Jose, California

WekaIO Matrix Software solves the challenge of scaling high performance file workloads from tens to thousands of server clients. Matrix Software transforms a cluster of compute servers (on-premises or in AWS) into a globally shared, POSIX compliant file system that delivers industry leading performance and scale for enterprise file workloads and HPC environments. Matrix Software makes it simple to install and manage hundreds of compute nodes from a single management console. For peak performance needs, additional Matrix instances can be dynamically added to scale performance, while capacity can be scaled independently within the compute nodes. WekaIO Matrix is flash native providing the highest performance to applications, and its integrated tiering mechanism automatically moves cold data to any S3 or Swift compliant object store (on-premises or public cloud), while maintaining data locality to the applications. All data is presented as a single global namespace.

WekaIO Matrix is ideal for technical computing workloads such as EDA design, Big Data analytics, software development, genomic sequencing, financial analytics, media rendering and HPC research. The software can be deployed natively in a hyperconverged mode with zero additional footprint, or as a dedicated storage appliance. Because it is a software only solution it is up to 80% less costly than external flash based NAS appliances. This test platform is a hyperconverged implementation.

Solution Under Test Bill of Materials

Configuration Diagrams

Component Software

Item No	Qty	Type	Vendor	Model/Name	Description
1	60	AWS EC2 Instance	Amazon	r3.8xlarge instance	Amazon r3.8 instances are optimized for memory-intensive applications and offer lower price per GiB of RAM. Features: High Frequency Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge) Processors, 640GB of SSD Storage, Support for Enhanced Networking

Item No	Component	Type	Name and Version	Description
1	Hyperconverged Server Nodes	MatrixFS File System	2.5.2	WekaIO Matrix is a distributed and parallel POSIX file system that runs on any SSD enabled commodity server or cloud compute instance and forms a single cluster. The file system presents a single high performance, scalable global namespace to the applications running in the cluster.
2	Hyperconverged Server Nodes	Operating System	CENTOS 6.7	The operating system on the hyperconverged server was 64-bit CENTOS Version 6.7.

Hardware Configuration and Tuning - Virtual

Software Configuration and Tuning - Virtual

Hyperconverged Server Nodes
Parameter Name	Value	Description
Jumbo Frames	9000	Enables up to 9000 bytes of Ethernet Frames

Software Configuration and Tuning Notes

The MTU is required and valid for all environments and workloads.

Service SLA Notes

Not applicable

Storage and Filesystems

Item No	Description	Data Protection	Stable Storage	Qty
1	MatrixFS Enabled Amazon EC2 r3.8xlarge instances used as shared file system	15+2	Yes	1

Number of Filesystems	1
Total Capacity	24176 GiB
Filesystem Type	MatrixFS

Filesystem Creation Notes

A single WekaIO Matrix file system was created and distributed evenly across all 60 instances in the Amazon cluster. Data was protected to an 15+2 failure level. All data and metadata is distributed evenly across the cluster.

Storage and Filesystem Notes

WekaIO MatrixFS was created and distributed evenly across all 60 instances in the Amazon cluster. The deployment model is as a hyperconverged architecture where both storage and application services are run on the same infrastructure. Each EC2 instance has 32 vCPU, 244GiB of memory and 2x320GB (total 640GB) of SSD local to the instance. Two cores of the available 32 (6.25%) were provisioned with MatrixFS, the remaining 30 cores were available for application usage. Each instance had 13GB (5%) of memory assigned to WekaIO.

Transport Configuration - Virtual

Item No	Transport Type	Number of Ports Used	Notes
1	10GbE Virtual NIC	60	Interface Notes

Transport Configuration Notes

WekaIO Matrix utilizes the shared 10GbE Virtual NIC on each r3.8xlarge instance. 1x10GbE Virtual NIC per EC2 instance for a total of 60. Applications and storage run on the same network.

Switches - Virtual

Processing Elements - Virtual

Memory - Virtual

Stable Storage

Solution Under Test Configuration Notes

Item No	Switch Name	Switch Type	Total Port Count	Used Port Count	Notes
1	AWS	10GbE with Enhanced Networking	AWS	AWS	Switch Notes

Item No	Qty	Type	Location	Description	Processing Function
1	120	vCPU core	AWS EC2 r3.8xlarge instance	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz	Processing Function

Description	Size in GiB	Number of Instances	Nonvolatile	Total GiB
AWS EC2 r3.8xlarge instance memory	244	60	V	14640
Grand Total Memory Gibibytes	14640

The solution under test was a standard WekaIO Matrix enabled cluster in hyperconverged mode. The solution will handle both large file I/O as well as small file random I/O and metadata intensive applications. No specialized tuning is required for different or mixed use workloads. The storage services and client applications share the same instances without the need for any additional dedicated storage instances.

SPEC SFS®2014_swbuild Result

Performance

Product and Test Information