SPEC SFS®2014_swbuild Result

The Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 Mid-Range system is a cost-effective, unified storage system that is ideal for performance-intensive, dynamic workloads. This enterprise-class storage system offers both NAS and SAN capabilities with industry-leading Oracle Database integration, in a highly available, clustered configuration.

The Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 provides simplified configuration, management, and industry-leading storage Analytics. The performance-optimized platform leverages specialized read and write flash caching devices in the hybrid storage pool configuration, optimizing high-performance throughput and latency. The clustered Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 Mid-Range system scales to 2.0TB Memory, includes 36 CPU cores per controller and 8 PB of disk storage. The Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance delivers excellent value with integrated data services for file and block-level protocols with connectivity over InfiniBand, 32GB FC, 40GbE, 25GbE, and 10GbE. Data can be compressed, deduplicated, encrypted, snapshot, and replicated. Data is protected by an advanced data integrity architecture and provides four RAID redundancy options to optimize different workloads.

1. Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 Mid Range Hybrid Storage Pool
2. Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 Mid Range Hybrid Storage Pool Filesystem and Network Configuration

Hardware Configuration and Tuning Notes

Software Configuration and Tuning Notes

Service SLA Notes

Filesystem Creation Notes

Storage and Filesystem Notes

Transport Configuration Notes

Processing Element Notes

Memory Notes

The Stable Storage requirement is guaranteed by the ZFS Intent Log (ZIL) which logs writes and other filesystem changing transactions to the stable storage of write flash accelerator SSDs or HDDs depending on the configuration. The Solution Under Test uses write flash accelerator SSDs. Writes and other filesystem changing transactions are not acknowledged until the data is written to stable storage. The Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance is an active-active cluster high availability system. In the event of a controller failure or power loss, each controller can take over for the other. Write flash accelerator SSDs and/or HDDs are located in shared disk shelves and can be accessed via the 4 backend SAS-3 channels from both controllers, the remaining active controller can complete any outstanding transactions using the ZIL. In the event of power loss to both controllers, the ZIL is used after power is restored to reinstate any writes and other filesystem changes.

The ZS7-2 component is the Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 Mid Range in an active-active failover configuration.

A non-default SWBUILD WARMUP_TIME=600 was used.

Please reference the Solution Under Test diagram. The 2 Oracle S7-2 workload clients are used for benchmark load generation. The Oracle S7-2 workload clients each mount 2 of the total 2 filesystems provided by the Oracle ZFS Storage cluster via NFSv3. One filesystem is shared from each Oracle ZFS Storage controller. Each of the two Oracle ZFS Storage controllers has 4 x 25GbE Ethernet ports for data service, all ports are assigned separate sub-networks. Each Oracle S7-2 workload client has 4 x 25GbE Ethernet ports, mounting each NFS share four times over four networks. This is diagramed in the Solution Under Test diagram.

Oracle and ZFS are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. Intel and Xeon are registered trademarks of the Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

The test sponsor attests, as of the date of publication, that CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown), CVE-2017-5753 (Spectre variant 1), and CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre variant 2) patches are disabled in the system as tested and documented. There is support turning this protection off or on, it is disabled (off) for this Solution Under Test which is also the product default. These mitigations may be enabled through the standard administrative interface. There may be performance impacts when these patches are enabled.