SPECsfs2008_cifs Result

Throughput (ops/sec) Response (msec) 958 1.0 1913 2.4 2875 3.6 3826 4.7 4808 5.4 5820 6.7 6747 7.0 7803 7.8 8657 10.6 9251 10.3

Tested By	Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Product Name	PRIMERGY TX300 S5 (with 3x6 disks RAID 50)
Hardware Available	April 2009
Software Available	March 2009
Date Tested	March 2009
SFS License Number	19
Licensee Locations	Paderborn, Germany

The PRIMERGY TX300 S5 is a 2-way tower server. In the measurement it was used for providing network file service utilizing the SAS RAID storage housed in the server's chassis.

Item No	Qty	Type	Vendor	Model/Name	Description
1	1	Server	Fujitsu	PRIMERGY TX300 S5	Tower Server with two Intel Xeon X5570 processors, two onboard Gigabit network interfaces, two 8port SAS RAID controllers (each with 512 MB cache and BBU) and 20 directly connected SAS disks.

OS Name and Version	Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition SP2 (Build 3790)
Other Software	N/A
Filesystem Software	N/A

Name	Value	Description
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation	dword:00000001	NTFS avoids the short-name attribute creation (8.3 DOS naming convention) for files
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NtfsMemoryUsage	dword:00000002	increase memory usage of NTFS
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\(INTERFACE NUMBER)\TcpAckFrequency	dword:0000000d	If only acking data and not any control packets, ack once every 13 packets, instead of the default of two.

Server Tuning Notes

None

Description	Number of Disks	Usable Size
2 arrays of 6 disks each (SAS, 146 GB, 10000 rpm) connnected with the first 8port SAS RAID controller; each array configured as a (4+2) RAID 50 bound as a LUN on which a 544 GB NTFS file system was built.	12	1.1 TB
array of 6 disks (SAS, 146 GB, 10000 rpm) connnected with the second 8port SAS RAID controller, configured as a (4+2) RAID 50 bound as a LUN on which a 544 GB NTFS file system was built.	6	544.0 GB
2 disks (SAS, 36 GB, 15000 rpm) connected with the second 8port SAS RAID controller, configured as RAID 1 used for the OS.	2	33.5 GB
Total	20	1.6 TB

Number of Filesystems	3
Total Exported Capacity	1.6 TB
Filesystem Type	NTFS
Filesystem Creation Options	default
Filesystem Config	Three filesystems are created on the LUNs on the 8port SAS RAID controllers. The filesystems are sfs1, sfs2 and sfs3.
Fileset Size	1120.2 GB

Item No	Network Type	Number of Ports Used	Notes
1	Gigabit Ethernet	2	used Gigabit Ethernet ports on the PRIMERGY TX300 S5

Network Configuration Notes

All network interfaces were connected to a Netgear JGS516 switch.

Each of the two PRIMERGY TX300 S5 server onboard network interfaces were connected to a switch. Each of the LG single on-board network interface was connected to the switch.

Item No	Qty	Type	Description	Processing Function
1	2	CPU	Intel Xeon X5570 (2.93 GHz, 1 chip, 4 cores per chip, 1/4 MB (I+D) L2 cache per core, 8 MB (I+D) L3 cache per chip)	TCP/IP, CIFS protocol, NTFS

Processing Element Notes

None

Description	Size in GB	Number of Instances	Total GB	Nonvolatile
NAS server main memory	96	1	96	V
Storage Processor main memory	0.5	2	1	NV
Grand Total Memory Gigabytes			97

Memory Notes

The RAID controllers' write caches are backed up with battery backup units able to retain the write caches for 72 hours in the event of a power failure.

Stable write and commit operations are not acknowledged until after the RAID storage system has acknowledged that the related data stored at least in non-volatile RAM. When the RAID controllers' battery backup units are off-line, the system turns off the write caches and writes directly to disk before acknowledging any write operations.

See above for the tuning params.

none

Item No	Qty	Vendor	Model/Name	Description
1	8	Fujitsu	PRIMERGY RX100 S3	Server with one Intel Pentium D 945 processor

LG Type Name	LG1-8
BOM Item #	1
Processor Name	Intel Pentium D 945
Processor Speed	3.40 GHz
Number of Processors (chips)	1
Number of Cores/Chip	2
Memory Size	2 GB
Operating System	WIndows Server 2003
Network Type	2 onboard Gigabit Ethernet controllers Broadcom BCM5721 (1 used)

Benchmark Parameters

Network Attached Storage Type	CIFS
Number of Load Generators	8
Number of Processes per LG	12

Testbed Configuration

LG No	LG Type	Network	Target Filesystems	Notes
1..4	LG1	1	sfs1, sfs2, sfs3	N/A
5..8	LG1	2	sfs1, sfs2, sfs3	N/A

Load Generator Configuration Notes

The filesystems were mounted on all clients. Four of the clients were connected to the first network, the other four to the second network.

The measurement was done to find out the performance of a PRIMERGY TX300 S5 server equipped with the maximum number of internal SAS disks. The server has two boxes for 2.5" SAS or SATA hard disks available in its chassis: one box for 12 disks which can be connected via an expander to one channel of the 1st SAS controller, and one box for 8 disks, four of which each can be connected to the two channels of the 2nd SAS controller. Two disks of the 2nd box were used for the OS. To make use of all other disks three equally dimensioned file systems were built: 2 on the 12 disks of the first box and 1 on the 6 disks of the second box. 12 processes were utilized on each of the 8 clients. The processes were spread over the filesystems equally. Four of the clients were connected to the first network, the other four to the second network.

(No other report notes)

• Config Diagram