Web 2.0 Consolidation Sun Storage 7410 Unified storage array
Monday Nov 10, 2008
Update: also check out this post: http://blogs.sun.com/mheckel/entry/sun_storage_7410_unified_storage
Web2.0 data centers are filled with racks of x86 servers. Data center architects simply put a single app on a single box, but this can be difficult to manage and inefficient in terms of utilization, power, and space. There is a very easy way however to consolidate many web servers onto a single CMT server using Open Storage.
With the introduction of the Sun Storage 7410 Unified storage array, cost and configuration of storage just got easier. UltraSPARC CMT servers have been proven to be a perfect choice for consolidation of the Web2.0 tiers. The Sun Storage 7410 Unified storage array allows for easy consolidation of storage for the Web 2.0 environment.
Traditional Web 2.0 environments utilize distributed file systems like MogileFS. These solutions use an adhoc approach to maintenance and availability. The Sun Storage 7410 Unified storage array uses inexpensive SAS drives, SSDs, ZFS, and the Fishworks open storage software. As compared to traditional NAS solutions, the Sun Storage 7410 Unified storage array provides high performance solution that is easy to manage, monitor, and deploy.
Proves Open Storage is an excellent choice for Consolidation of Web2.0 based applications.
The test was even run with the benchmark kit "Olio" which is an open-source project for testing Web2.0 environments.
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One can gain up to a 75% cost savings over traditional storage solutions while realizing significant space, power and cooling efficiencies.
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Results Summary
For each UltraSPARC T2 socket, eight older x86 servers can be eliminated. Additionally, by increasing average utilization and expending less watts/user this vastly improves compute density and creating a huge savings in floor space and power.
| System | Processors | Results | |||||||
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| Storage | Ch, Cr, Th | GHz Type | users | Util | RU | watts / user | users /RU | ||
| Sun Fire T5120 | Sun Storage 7410 Unified storage array (NFS) | 1, 8, 64 | 1.4 UltraSPARC T2 | 2,400 | 72% | 1 | 0.20 | 2,400 | |
| Sun Fire T5120 | LocalFS | 1, 8, 64 | 1.4 UltraSPARC T2 | 2,400 | 60% | 1 | 0.20 | 2,400 | |
| Sun Fire v20z | LocalFS | 2, 2, 2 | 2.2 AMD 248 | 300 | 40% | 1 | 1.163 | 300 | |
| 4 x Sun Fire x4200, Distributed | LocalFS | 16, 16,16 | 2.2 AMD 248 | 1,900 | xx | 8 | 0.73 | 238 | |
Benchmark Description
The application in the web2.0 kit implements a social events calendar with features such as AJAX, tagging, tag cloud, comments, ratings, feeds, mashups, extensive use of data caching, use of both structured and unstructured data and a high data read:write ratio that is typical of applications in this space. The web2.0 benchmark kit has multiple different flavors. For purposes of this evaluation, we decided to use the following components all running on UltraSPARC CMT servers:
- Solaris
- Apache
- memcached
- MySQL
- PHP
See Also
Consolidation process
For easy mapping from the old environment to the new, we created one zone for each "core" on the UltraSPARC T2. For the 2,400 user run, we had 300 users per zone simulating the consolidation of 8 x v20z servers. We chose 8 zones so that each zone could be mapped to a core. For UltraSPARC T2+ based servers, more zones could easily be added to take advantage of the throughput of this server.
This flexible environment can be scaled up or down based on the needs of the applications running in the zone. For this test, one full "LAMP" stack was created on each of the 8 local Solaris zones.
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Tags: cmt opensource performance power sunstorage7000 t5120 watts
