SPEC SFS®2014_vdi Result
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SPEC SFS®2014_vdi ResultCopyright © 2016-2019 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation |
| SPEC SFS(R) Subcommittee | SPEC SFS2014_vdi = 100 Desktops |
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| Reference submission | Overall Response Time = 0.71 msec |
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| Tested by | SPEC SFS(R) Subcommittee |
| Hardware Available | 12/2017 |
| Software Available | 12/2017 |
| Date Tested | 12/2017 |
| License Number | 55 |
| Licensee Locations | Hopkinton, Massachusetts |
The SPEC SFS(R) 2014 Reference Solution consists of a Dell PowerEdge R630 -
rack-mountable - Xeon E5-2640V4 2.4 GHz - 96 GB - 600 server, based on Intel
Xeon E5-2640V4 2.4 GHz - 8 core processor, connected to VMware 24 nodes cluster
using the NFSv3 protocol over an Ethernet network.
The PowerEdge R630
server, provides IO/s from 8 file systems, and 8 volumes. The PowerEdge R630
accelerates business and increases speed-to-market by providing scalable, high
performance storage for mission critical and highly transactional applications.
Based on the powerful family of Intel E5-2600 processors, the PowerEdge R630
uses All SSD Flash storage architecture for block, and file, and supports for
native NAS, and iSCSI protocols. Each PowerEdge R630 server uses a single
socket storage processors, full 12 Gb SAS back end connectivity and includes 12
SAS SSD Dell - solid state drive - 1.6 TB - SAS 12Gb/s. The storage server is
running Linux SLES12SP1 #2 SMP and using NFSv3 Linux server. A second PowerEdge
R630 is used in an Active-Passive mode as a failover server. The PowerEdge R640
is configured with 12 Dell Enterprise-class 2.5", 1.6TB Solid State Drives,
Serial Attached SCSI 12Gb/s drive technology and 4 10GbE Ethernet networking.
| Item No | Qty | Type | Vendor | Model/Name | Description |
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| 1 | 2 | Storage Cluster Node | Dell | PowerEdge R630 | PowerEdge R630 - rack-mountable - single Xeon E5-2640V4 2.4 GHz-96GB-4x10GbE |
| 2 | 4 | Load Generator Servers | Dell | Dual Socket PowerEdge R430 Server | PowerEdge R430 - Dual Xeon E5-2603V3 1.7GHz24GB-2x10GbE |
| 3 | 2 | Ethernet Switch | Dell | PowerConnect 8024 | PowerConnect 8024 24 Port 10Gb Ethernet Switch (10GBASE-T) |
| Item No | Component | Type | Name and Version | Description |
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| 1 | PowerEdge R630 | Linux | SLES12SP1 #2 SMP | The PowerEdge R630 were running Linux SUSE OS SLES 12 |
| 2 | VMware Hypervisor | ESXi Server | 5.1 (VM version 9) | The 4 PowerEdge R430 were running VMware ESXi 5.1 Hypervisor and were configured with 6 VM's EA |
| 3 | Load Generators | Linux | CentOS 7.2 64-bit | The VMware ESXi 5.1 Hypervisor 5.1 was configured to run 6 VM's running Linux OS total 24 VM's |
| Load Generator Virtual Machine | ||
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| Parameter Name | Value | Description |
| MTU | 9000 | Maximum Transfer Unit |
The Ports' MTU on the Load Generators, Network Switch and Storage Servers were set to Jumbo MTU=9000
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| Parameter Name | Value | Description |
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
No software tunings were used - default NFS mount options were used.
No opaque services were in use.
| Item No | Description | Data Protection | Stable Storage | Qty |
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| 1 | PowerEdge R630 server: 1.6TB SAS SSD Drives | RAID5 3+1 | Yes | 12 |
| 2 | Virtual Machine: 18GB SAS Drives | None | Yes | 24 |
| Number of Filesystems | 8 |
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| Total Capacity | 8 TB |
| Filesystem Type | NFSv3 |
The file system was created on the PowerEdge R630 using all default parameters.
The VM's storage was configured on the ESXi server and shared from a single 600GB SAS 15K RPM HDD.
| Item No | Transport Type | Number of Ports Used | Notes |
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| 1 | 10 Gbit on Storage Node | 4 | 4 ports were connected and used for test and 4 stdby |
| 2 | 10 Gbit on Load Generators | 8 | 2 ports were connected on each ESXi server and split into 6 VM's using an internal Private network |
All load generator VM clients were connected to an internal SW switch inside each ESXi server. This internal switch was connected to the 10 GbE switch.
| Item No | Switch Name | Switch Type | Total Port Count | Used Port Count | Notes |
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| 1 | PowerConnect 8024 | 10 GbE Ethernet ESXi Servers to Storage nodes interconnect | 48 | 24 | The VM's were connected to the 10 Gbit switch using a Private network on the ESXi |
| Item No | Qty | Type | Location | Description | Processing Function |
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| 1 | 1 | Xeon E5-2640 v4 | CPU | Intel Xeon Processor E5-2640 v4 with 8 cores | NFSv3 Server |
| 2 | 8 | Xeon E5-2600 v4 | CPU | Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 v4 with 6 cores | Load Generators |
The 4 ESXi servers (on PowerEdge R430) were using the dual socket E5-2600 v4 and the Load Generators VM's were configured with 2 cores each without hyperthreading.
| Description | Size in GiB | Number of Instances | Nonvolatile | Total GiB |
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| PowerEdge R630 main memory | 96 | 1 | V | 96 |
| PowerEdge R630 NVRAM module with Vault-to-SSD | 160 | 1 | NV | 160 |
| Load generator VM memory | 4 | 24 | V | 96 |
| Grand Total Memory Gibibytes | 352 | |||
Each PowerEdge R630 storage controller has main memory that is used for the operating system and for caching filesystem data. It uses a 160GiB partition of one SSD device to provide stable storage for writes that have not yet been written to disk.
Each PowerEdge R630 storage node is equipped with a nvram journal that stores writes to the local SSD disks. The nvram mirror data to a partition of SSD flash device in the event of power-loss.
The system under test consisted of 2 PowerEdge R630 storage nodes, 1U each, configured as Active-StdBy, connected by 4 10 GbE ports of a 4 ports NIC. Each storage node was configured with 4 10GbE network interfaces connected to a 10GbE switch. There were 24 load generating clients, each connected to the same PowerConnect 8024 Ethernet switch as the PowerEdge R630 storage nodes.
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Each load generating client mounted all the 8 file systems using NFSv3. Because there is a single active storage node, all the clients mounted all 8 file systems from the storage node. The order of the clients as used by the benchmark was round-robin distributed such that as the load scaled up, each additional process used the next file system. This ensured an even distribution of load over the network and among the 8 file systems configured on the storage node.
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