As SPECsfs2014 still only has (SPECsfs sourced) reference benchmarks, we have been showing some of our seldom seen SPECsfs2008 charts, in our quarterly SPECsfs performance reviews. The above chart was sent out in last months Storage Intelligence Newsletter and shows the NFS transfer operations per second per node.
In the chart, we only include NFS SPECsfs2008 benchmark results with configurations that have more than 2 nodes and have divided the maximum NFS throughput operations per second achieved by the node counts to compute NFS ops/sec/node.
HDS VSP G1000 with an 8 4100 file modules (nodes) and HDS HUS (VM) with 4 4100 file modules (nodes) came in at #1 and #2 respectively, for ops/sec/node, each attaining ~152K NFS throughput operations/sec. per node. The #3 competitor was Huawei OceanStor N8500 Cluster NAS with 24 nodes, which achieved ~128K NFS throughput operations/sec./node. At 4th and 5th place were EMC VNX VG8/VNX5700 with 5 X-blades and Dell Compellent FS8600 with 4 appliances, each of which reached ~124K NFS throughput operations/sec. per node. It falls off significantly from there, with two groups at ~83K and ~65K NFS ops/sec./node.
Although not shown above, it’s interesting that there are many well known scale-out NAS solutions in SPECsfs2008 results with over 50 nodes that do much worse than the top 10 above, at <10K NFS throughput ops/sec/node. Fortunately, most scale-out NAS nodes cost quite a bit less than the above.
But for my money, one can be well served with a more sophisticated, enterprise class NAS system which can do >10X the NFS throughput operations per second per node than a scale-out systm. That is, if you don’t have to deploy 10PB or more of NAS storage.
More information on SPECsfs2008/SPECsfs2014 performance results as well as our NFS and CIFS/SMB ChampionsCharts™ for file storage systems can be found in our just updated NAS Storage Buying Guide available for purchase on our web site.
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The complete SPECsfs2008 performance report went out in SCI’s September newsletter. A copy of the report will be posted on our dispatches page sometime this quarter (if all goes well). However, you can get the latest storage performance analysis now and subscribe to future free monthly newsletters by just using the signup form above right.
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Post tags: Chart of the month, Dell Compellent FS8600, EMC VG8/VNX5700, HDS HUS VM, HDS VSP, Huawei OceanStor N8500, NFS, NFS throughput per node, Scale out NAS
