SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 Result

Huawei Symantec : N8500 Clustered NAS Storage System
SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 = 176728 Ops/Sec (Overall Response Time = 1.67 msec)


Performance

Throughput
(ops/sec)
Response
(msec)
15004 1.0
30025 1.0
45100 1.0
60195 1.1
75228 1.1
90304 1.3
105410 1.6
120631 1.9
135671 2.3
150837 2.8
164606 3.4
176728 4.1
Performance Graph


Product and Test Information

Tested By Huawei Symantec
Product Name N8500 Clustered NAS Storage System
Hardware Available Jan 2009
Software Available Jan 2009
Date Tested September 2009
SFS License Number 3726
Licensee Locations The West Zone Science Park of UESTC,No.88,Tianchen Road,Chengdu
CHINA

The N8500 Clustered NAS Storage System is an advanced, modular, and unified storage platform (including NAS, FC-SAN, and IP SAN) designed for high-end and mid-range storage applications. Huawei Symantec fully owns the intellectual property right (IPR) of the Huawei Symantec N8500 Clustered NAS Storage System. N8500 is a professional integrated storage solution that optimally utilizes storage resources. Its superior performance, reliability, ease of management, and flexible scalability maximize its cross-field application potential to span areas such as high-end computing, databases, websites, file servers, streaming media, digital video surveillance, and file backup.

Configuration Bill of Materials

Item No Qty Type Vendor Model/Name Description
1 12 Engine Node Huawei Symantec N8500 N8500 Clustered NAS Server
2 2 Fiber channel switch Brocade 5000 Brocade 5000 32*4G ports fiber channel switch
3 20 Storage Controller Huawei Symantec S2300 Huawei Symantec N8500 Storage Unit---storage array Controller,4U hard disk frame,24 hard disks
4 20 Storage Expansion Huawei Symantec D200 Huawei Symantec N8500 Storage Unit---storage array Expansion,4U hard disk frame,24 hard disks
5 960 Disk Huawei Symantec SAS-300GB-15K.6 300G Seagate SAS disk

Server Software

OS Name and Version SFS 5.0.2
Other Software Integrated Storage Management V100R002C01
Filesystem Software VxFS

Server Tuning

Name Value Description
Default parameters None The system was tested using the default parameters

Server Tuning Notes

N8500 Clustered Storage System default configuration was used

Disks and Filesystems

Description Number of Disks Usable Size
48 disks per storage unit (S2300 + D200), bound into 6 7+1 RAID-5 LUNs; every 20 LUNs, one from each storage unit, creates a filesystem with stripe depth of 20 and stripe size of 1024 KB; total six filesystems are setup for this test. 960 227.4 TB
Total 960 227.4 TB
Number of Filesystems 6
Total Exported Capacity 233748G
Filesystem Type VxFS
Filesystem Creation Options Default
Filesystem Config Default
Fileset Size 21081.1 GB

Network Configuration

Item No Network Type Number of Ports Used Notes
1 Gigabit Ethernet 42 Each N8500 NAS Engine Node uses 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports and each client uses 1 Gigabit Ethernet port both connected to the same 48 port Gigabit Ethernet switch.

Network Configuration Notes

All clients and NAS Engine Nodes connect to a 48 port Gigabit Ethernet switch.

Benchmark Network

The Ethernet network is configured using the default setting. The jumbo frame were not enabled during the test. All clients and N8500 nodes are connected to a flat network using the same subnet and using the same ethernet switch.

Processing Elements

Item No Qty Type Description Processing Function
1 24 NAS Engine Node CPU Intel Dual-Core Xeon Processor 5318,4MB L2 cache SFS,VxFS,NFS,TCP/IP
2 40 array Controller CPU 64-bit dual-core CPU block serving

Processing Element Notes

Each N8500 NAS Engine Node has two physical processors. Each S2300 has two controllers, one CPU per controller, for a total of two CPUs per S2300.

Memory

Description Size in GB Number of Instances Total GB Nonvolatile
Clustered NAS Engine Nodes memory 16 12 192 V
S2300 storage controller provide write cache vault. When power failure is detected, a standby ups will kick in to hold the controller cache contents and controller will flush them back to internal disk. Data in the controller cache is guarantee stable more than 72 hours. 4 20 80 NV
Grand Total Memory Gigabytes     272  

Memory Notes

Each Storage Unit has dual storage controllers that work as an active-active failover pair.

Stable Storage

S2300 storage controller provide write cache vault. When power failure is detected, a standby ups will kick in to hold the controller cache contents and controller will flush them back to internal disk. Data in the controller cache is guarantee stable more than 72 hours.

System Under Test Configuration Notes

Default configuration

Other System Notes

Test Environment Bill of Materials

Item No Qty Vendor Model/Name Description
1 9 Huawei T8000 Blade Server BH23 16G RAM and Suse 10 SP1 operating system
2 9 Huawei T8000 Blade Server BH23C 16G RAM and Suse 10 SP1 operating system
3 1 Huawei S5600 Huawei Quidway S5600 Series 48 ports Gigabit Ethernet Switch

Load Generators

LG Type Name T8000 Blade Server BH23
BOM Item # 1
Processor Name Intel(R)Xeon(R)CPU 5318
Processor Speed 2.13GHZ
Number of Processors (chips) 2
Number of Cores/Chip 2
Memory Size 16 GB
Operating System Suse 10 SP1
Network Type 1 NIC Gigabit Ethernet
LG Type Name T8000 Blade Server BH23C
BOM Item # 2
Processor Name Intel(R)Xeon(R)CPU L5408
Processor Speed 2.13GHZ
Number of Processors (chips) 2
Number of Cores/Chip 4
Memory Size 16 GB
Operating System Suse 10 SP1
Network Type 1 NIC Gigabit Ethernet

Load Generator (LG) Configuration

Benchmark Parameters

Network Attached Storage Type NFS V3
Number of Load Generators 18
Number of Processes per LG 48
Biod Max Read Setting 2
Biod Max Write Setting 2
Block Size AUTO

Testbed Configuration

LG No LG Type Network Target Filesystems Notes
1..9 LG1 Gigabit Ethernet /vx/fs1,/vx/fs2,/vx/fs3,/vx/fs4,/vx/fs5,/vx/fs6 N/A
10..18 LG2 Gigabit Ethernet /vx/fs1,/vx/fs2,/vx/fs3,/vx/fs4,/vx/fs5,/vx/fs6 N/A

Load Generator Configuration Notes

All filesystems were mounted on all clients, which were connected to the same physical and logical network.

Uniform Access Rule Compliance

Every client mounts all six filesystems from N8500 Clustered NAS Storage System.The N8500 Engine nodes and clients are partitioned into 3 groups, each group contains 4 cluster Engine nodes and 6 clients.Among each group, 6 clients mount all six filesystems through 8 service IPs exported by the 4 cluster Engine nodes in the same group.

Other Notes

None

None.

Config Diagrams


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