Wednesday Jan 30, 2008
Not a big fan of Hostile submissions (one company submitting benchmark results for another company),
but I know every vendor including Sun has done this. But since I have no control over Sun's and other policies I can only give you my opinion.
Network Appliance, Inc submitted some SPC-1 results for EMC, here is that public data that is under review, as I understand it. Seems the SnapView performance (last two is something that NetApp really wanted to blow the covers off of and EMC didn't want to submit, but this is my guess.
Submitter: Network Appliance, Inc.
NetApp FAS3040 (no SnapView):
http://www.storageperformance.org/results/a00057_NetApp_FAS3040_executive-summary.pdf
SPC-1 Submission Identifier: A00057
SPC-1 IOPS(tm): 30,985.90
SPC-1 Price-Performance(tm): $13.61/SPC-1 IOPS(tm)
Total ASU Capacity: 12,586.586 GB
Data Protection Level: Other Data Protection
Total Price: $421,730
Submitter: Network Appliance, Inc.
EMC CLARiiON CX3 Model 40 (no SnapView):
http://www.storageperformance.org/results/a00059_NetApp_EMC-CX3-M40_executive-summary.pdf
SPC-1 Submission Identifier: A00059
SPC-1 IOPS(tm): 24,997.49
SPC-1 Price-Performance(tm): $20.72/SPC-1 IOPS(tm)
Total ASU Capacity: 8,465.016 GB
Data Protection Level: Mirroring
Total Price: $517,851
Submitter: Network Appliance, Inc.
NetApp FA3040 (SnapView enabled):
http://www.storageperformance.org/results/a00058_NetApp_FAS3040-Snapshot_executive-summary.pdf
SPC-1 Submission Identifier: A00058
SPC-1 IOPS(tm): 29,598.60
SPC-1 Price-Performance(tm): $14.89/SPC-1 IOPS(tm)
Total ASU Capacity: 12,586.586 GB
Data Protection Level: Other Data Protection
Total Price: $446,210
Submitter: Network Appliance, Inc.
EMC CLARiiON CX3 Model 40 (SnapView enabled):
http://www.storageperformance.org/results/a00060_NetApp_EMC-CX3-M40_SnapView_executive-summary.pdf
SPC-1 Submission Identifier: A00060
SPC-1 IOPS(tm): 8,997.17
SPC-1 Price-Performance(tm): $59.49/SPC-1 IOPS(tm)
Total ASU Capacity: 7,054.148 GB
Data Protection Level: Mirroring
Total Price: $535,251
Disclosure Statement:
SPC-1, SPC-1 MBPS, $/SPC-1 MBPS are regular trademarks of
Storage Performance Council (SPC). More info http://storageperformance.org.
Thursday Sep 06, 2007
Sun beats IBM by Over 2X in Price/Performance in SPC-1 benchmark.
The power of the Sun StorageTek 6540, coupled with Sun's 4Gb HBAs
demonstrates industry best-in-class SPC-1 benchmark performance
and price/performance.
Sun, using its StorageTek 6540, achieved a price/performance of $6.62
$/SPC-1 IOPS. In so doing, Sun also lowered the total cost of
ownership, among higher midrange systems to $307,710.
Over 2x better price/performance than IBM at $16.03 $/SPC-1 IOPS.
Sun achieved this result using a MIRRORED storage configuration to
protect all data against disk failures. Outside of Sun's prior
submissions all other competitors used the same data protection showing
an apples-to-apples comparison. Sun's StorageTek 6540 submissions can
suffer a disk failure without incurring a lengthy service outage,
during which time a full roll-forward recovery from a backup must be
performed just like the competitors.
Competitive Landscape
SPC-1 Performance Chart (in increasing price-performance order)
| System |
SPC-1 IOPS |
$/SPC-1 IOPS |
ASU Capacity (GB) |
TSC Price |
Data Protect Level |
Date |
Result Id |
| Sun ST6540 |
46,491.72 |
$6.62 |
6890.000 |
$307,710 |
Mirroring |
6/15/07 |
A00051 |
| IBM DS4800 |
45,014.81 |
$16.03 |
6871.277 |
$721,618 |
Mirroring |
4/12/07 |
A00050 |
Benchmark Description
SPC Benchmark-1 (SPC-1): is the first industry standard storage
benchmark and is the most comprehensive performance analysis
environment ever constructed for storage subsystems. The I/O
workload in SPC-1 is characterized by predominately random I/O
operations as typified by multi-user OLTP, database, and email servers
environments. SPC-1 uses a highly efficient multi-threaded
workload generator to thoroughly analyze direct attach or network
storage subsystems. The SPC-1 benchmark enables companies to rapidly
produce valid performance and price/performance
results using a variety of host platforms and storage network topologies.
SPC1 is built to:
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Provide a level playing field for test sponsors.
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Produce results that are powerful and yet simple to use.
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Provide value for engineers as well as IT consumers and solution integrators.
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Is easy to run, easy to audit/verify, and easy to use to
report official results.
SPC-1 IOPS = the Performance Metric
$/SPC-1 IOPS = the Price/Performance Metric
ASU Capacity = the Capacity Metric
Data Protection = Data Protection Metric
TSC Price = Total Cost of Ownership Metric
Results Identifier = A unique identification of the result Metric
See Also
Disclosure Statement:
SPC-1, SPC-1 IOPS, $/SPC-1 IOPS reg tm of Storage Performance Council (SPC).
More info www.storageperformance.org
Sun StorageTek 6540 46,491.72 SPC-1 IOPS, ASU Capacity 6,890.000GB, $/SPC-1
IOPS $6.62, Protection Mirroring, Cost $307,710, Ident. A00051.
IBM DS4800 45,014.81 SPC-1 IOPs, ASU Capacity 6,871.227GB, $/SPC-1 IOPS $16.03,
Protection Mirroring, Cost $721,618, Ident. A00050.
Results Summary
| Certified Results |
|
System: |
|
Sun StorageTek 6540 - ST6540
2 Controllers
224 73GB 15K 4Gb RPM FC drives
4Gb front- and back-end |
|
Performance: |
|
46,491.72 SPC-1 IOPS |
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Price/Performance: |
|
$6.62 $/SPC-1 IOPS |
|
ASU Capacity: |
|
6,890.00GB |
|
Data Protection Level: |
|
Mirroring |
|
TSC Price: |
|
$307,710.00 |
|
Results Identifier: |
|
A00051 |
|
Server: |
|
Sun Fire 6900
24x1.2GHz UltraSPARC IV
48GB memory
8 HBAs |
|
Operating System: |
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Solaris 10 11/06 |
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