Low Level Performance Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage Array
Monday Nov 10, 2008
(Updated performance numbers in green)
The Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage Array provides high-performance for NAS environments. Sun's product can be used on a wide variety of applications. The Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage Array with a single 10 GbE connection delivers near the peak of the 10 GbE. With the help of client caches enabled:
- The Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage Array gives 1 GB/sec throughput performance. With the help of client caches enabled:
- The Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage Array almost 1 GB/sec disk read throughput.
- The Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage Array delivers over 600 MB/sec on media server streaming reads.
- The Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage Array delivers over 400 MB/sec on streaming writes, which is about half of 10 GbE maximum due to mirroring.
Two different open source tools were used to measure the performance: Filebench and Vdbench. These tools allow creation of I/O streams of different characteristics to model different workloads: read/write percentages, different I/O sizes, etc. Both tools can be accessed from SourceForge.
Network performance to cache and ARC2 (L2 cache). The network performance measurements are the frequently used datasets that are held in the appliance cache or L2 ARC.
| Metrics Using Filebench | Results |
|---|---|
| Single thread streaming cached reads | 1,074 MB/sec |
| Single thread streaming uncached reads | 915.4 MB/sec |
| 10 threads streaming cached reads | 1,030.3 MB/sec |
| 20 threads streaming uncached reads | 959.7 MB/sec |
| Single thread streaming write | 480.0 MB/sec |
| 20 threads streaming write | 447.1 MB/sec |
| 128 threads 8k synchronous writes | 26,144 IOPS |
| 20 threads 8k random read from server caches | 36,478 IOPS |
| 200 threads 8k random read from server disks | 22,383 IOPS |
| 8 threads 8k small file create IOPS | 5,162 IOPS |
Benchmark Description of tests run with Filebench
The 10 filebench metrics was something developed to demonstrate the bandwidth and performance of network performance on networked storage. The following are the 10 metrics that are measured:
- Single thread streaming cached reads, 128k xfers, 30 sec
- Single thread streaming uncached reads, 128k xfers, 30 sec
- 20 threads streaming cached reads, 128k xfers, 30 sec
- 20 threads streaming uncached reads, 128k xfers, 30 sec
- Single thread streaming write, 128k xfers, 120 sec
- 20 threads streaming write, 128k xfers, 120 sec
- 128 threads 8k synchronous writes, 32k xfers,120 sec
- 20 threads 8k random read from server caches, 32k xfers, 30 sec
- 128 threads 8k random read from server disks, 32k xfers, 30 sec
- 20 threads small file create IOPS, 8k xfers 120 sec
Disclosure Statement:
Sun Microsystem generated results using filebench and vdbench. Results reported 11/10/08.
See Also
System Configuration
Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage Array:- 24 TB dual-head (vdbench)
- 44 TB single-head (filebench)
- 10 GbE connection
- Fishworks FW 47
Client Server:
- Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (vdbench)
- Sun Fire x4150 (filebench)
- Solaris 10 10/08
- 10 GbE connection
Network Switch:
- 10 GbE
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