SPEC SFS®2014_vda Result

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Oracle SPEC SFS2014_vda = 876 Streams
Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 Mid Range Four Tray Hybrid Storage System Overall Response Time = 21.93 msec


Performance

Business
Metric
(Streams)
Average
Latency
(msec)
Streams
Ops/Sec
Streams
MB/Sec
735.216730337
1465.8371460672
21913.16921911010
29217.15829211339
36518.74836521681
43819.56343822016
51122.04951122343
58422.23258432690
65723.01765743016
73029.48873043360
80335.65280353701
87663.61087634027
Performance Graph


Product and Test Information

Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 Mid Range Four Tray Hybrid Storage System
Tested byOracle
Hardware AvailableNovember 13, 2018
Software AvailableDecember 13, 2019
Date TestedJanuary 2020
License Number00073
Licensee LocationsRedwood Shores, CA, USA

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.

Solution Under Test Bill of Materials

Item NoQtyTypeVendorModel/NameDescription
12Storage ControllerOracleOracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 Mid RangeOracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2, 2 x 18-Core 2.3GHz Xeon G-6140 CPU. 512 GB DDR4-2666 LRDIMM. 2 x 10TB SAS3 HGST boot drives.
216MemoryOracleOracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2, 16 x 64GB DDR4-2666 LRDIMM. Memory is order configurable, a total of 512GB was installed in each storage controller.
32Storage Drive EnclosureOracleOracle Storage Drive Enclosure DE3-24C24 drive slot enclosure, SAS3 connected, 20 x 14TB Western Digital 7200 RPM - SAS-3 Disk Drive, 2 x Western Digital 200GB - SAS-3 SSD, 2 x Western Digital 7.68TB - SAS-3 SSD. Dual PSU.
42Storage Drive EnclosureOracleOracle Storage Drive Enclosure DE3-24C24 drive slot enclosure, SAS3 connected, 24 x 14TB Western Digital 7200 RPM - SAS-3 Disk Drive. Dual PSU.
588SAS3 HDDOracleWDC W7214A520ORA014T14TB Western Digital 7200 RPM - SAS-3 Disk Drive. Drive selection is order configurable. A total of 88 x 14TB Western Digital 7200 RPM - SAS-3 Disk Drive drives were installed across all Oracle Storage Drive Enclosure DE3-24C.
64SAS3 SSDOracleWDC HPCAC2DH6ORA200GWestern Digital 200GB - SAS-3 Solid State Disk. Drive selection is order configurable, a total of 4 x Western Digital 200GB - SAS-3 Solid State Disk drives were installed across two Oracle Storage Drive Enclosure DE3-24C. These Drives are used for write accelerators.
74SAS3 SSDOracleWDC HPCAC2DH2ORA7.6TWestern Digital 7.68TB - SAS-3 Solid State Disk. Drive selection is order configurable, a total of 4 x Western Digital 7.68TB - SAS-3 Solid State Disk drives were installed across two Oracle Storage Drive Enclosure DE3-24C. These drives are used for ZFS L2 Adaptive Replacement Cache.
82ClientOracleOracle S7-2Oracle S7-2 Client Node, 2 x SPARC S7 8-Core, 4.27GHz processors. 256GB RAM. 2 x (2 x 25GbE). Used for benchmark load generation.
92OS DriveOracleHGST H101812SFSUN1.2THGST 1.2TB - 10000 RPM - SAS-3 Disk Drive. 2 x 1.2TB - 10000 RPM - SAS-3 Disk Drive, one for each Oracle S7-2 Client Node was installed for OS boot drive.
101SwitchAristaArista DCS-7060CX-32SArista DCS-7060CX-32S, high-performance, low-latency 100/40/10/25/50 Gb/sec Ethernet switch.
118Network Interface CardOracleDual 10/25-Gigabit SFP28 EthernetDual 10/25-Gigabit SFP28 Ethernet HBA

Configuration Diagrams

  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

Component Software

Item NoComponentTypeName and VersionDescription
1Oracle ZFS StorageStorage Controller OS8.8.9Oracle ZFS Storage OS Firmware.
2SolarisWorkload Client OSSolaris (11.4,5.11-11.4.16.0.1.2.0)Workload Client Operating System

Hardware Configuration and Tuning - Physical

Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2
Parameter NameValueDescription
MTU9000Network Jumbo Frames
Oracle S7-2 Client Node
Parameter NameValueDescription
MTU9000Network Jumbo Frames

Hardware Configuration and Tuning Notes

The Solution Under Test has 25GbE Ethernet ports set to MTU 9000. S7-2 workload clients have power management software controls for SPARC processor power states. This control is set to administrative-authority equal "none" via the Solaris poweradm cli, which prevents CPU power throttling.

Software Configuration and Tuning - Physical

Oracle S7-2 Client Nodes
Parameter NameValueDescription
vers3NFS mount option set to version 3
rsize, wsize1048576NFS mount option for the read and write buffer size.
forcedirectioforcedirectioNFS mount option set to forcedirectio
rpcmod:clnt_max_conns4Increases the number of NFS client connections from default of 1 to 4.

Software Configuration and Tuning Notes

Best practices settings for network and NFS client and the Oracle ZFS Storage using the 25GbE Ethernet for optimized performance includes setting the workload client NFS mounts of the Oracle to use forcedirectio, and read and write NFS buffer sizes to 1048576 bytes each.

Service SLA Notes

None

Storage and Filesystems

Item NoDescriptionData ProtectionStable StorageQty
188 x 14TB HDD Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 Data Pool DrivesRAID-10Yes88
24 x 200GB SSD Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 Log DrivesNoneYes4
3Western Digital 7.68TB - SAS-3 Solid State Disk ZS7-2 Read Cache DrivesNoneYes4
410TB HGST Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 OS DrivesMirroredNo4
5HGST 1.2TB - 10000 RPM - SAS-3 Disk Drive S7-2 Client Node OS DrivesNoneNo2
Number of Filesystems2
Total Capacity467 TiB
Filesystem TypeZFS

Filesystem Creation Notes

Two ZFS storage pools are created overall in the Solution Under Test (one storage pool per Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 controller). Each storage pool is configured with 42 HDD drives, 2 write accelerator SSDs (log devices), 2 L2 Adaptive Replacement Cache SSDs (read cache), and 2 hot spare HDDs. The storage pools are configured via the administrative browser interface. Each storage controller assigns half the disk drives, log devices, and cache devices to be used. Next, the storage pools profiles are set to mirror (RAID-10) across the 42 data HDDs drives. The log profile and cache device profiles used are set to be striped. The log construct in each storage pool is the ZFS Intent Log (ZIL) for the pool. The cache construct is the ZFS L2 Adaptive Replacement Cache for the pool. Each storage pool is configured with one ZFS filesystem share. Since each controller is configured with one storage pool and each storage pool contains one ZFS filesystem share, the Solution Under Test has two ZFS filesystem shares (2 NFS shares).

There are 2 internal mirrored system disk drives per Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 controller and are used only for the controllers NAS operating system. These drives are exclusively used for the NAS Firmware and do not cache or store user data.

The Oracle S7-2 workload clients mount the two NFS shares across four 25GbE networks such that each client accesses the two NFS shares via four network paths over eight NFS mounts (see Solution Under Test diagram).

Storage and Filesystem Notes

All filesystems on both Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 controllers are created with a setting of the Database Record Size of 128KB. The logbias setting is set to latency (the default value) for each filesystem. These standard settings are controlled through the Oracle ZFS Storage administration using the Administration browser or cli interfaces.

Transport Configuration - Physical

Item NoTransport TypeNumber of Ports UsedNotes
125GbE Ethernet8Each Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 Controller is networked via 4 x 25GbE Ethernet physical ports for data.
210GbE Ethernet2Each Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 Controller uses 1 x 10GbE Ethernet physical port for NAS configuration and management.
325GbE Ethernet8Each Oracle S7-2 Client Node uses is networked via 4 x 25GbE Ethernet physical ports for data.
410GbE Ethernet2Each Oracle S7-2 Client Node uses 1 x 10GbE Ethernet physical port for configuration and management.

Transport Configuration Notes

Each Oracle ZFS Storage controller uses 4 x 25 GbE Ethernet ports for a total of 8 x 25 GbE ports. In the event of a controller failure, IP address will be taken over by the surviving controller. All 25 GbE ports are set to MTU 9000. There is 1 x 10GbE port per controller assigned to the administration interface, this interface is only used to manage the controller and does not take part in data services in the Solution Under Test.

Switches - Physical

Item NoSwitch NameSwitch TypeTotal Port CountUsed Port CountNotes
1Arista DCS-7060CX-32S100/40/10/25/50 Gb/sec Ethernet Switch12816All ports set for MTU 9000. Port count based on 25GbE.

Processing Elements - Physical

Item NoQtyTypeLocationDescriptionProcessing Function
14CPUOracle ZFS Storage ZS7-22 x 18-Core 2.3GHz Xeon G-6140 CPUZFS, TCP/IP, RAID/Storage Drivers, NFS
24CPUOracle S7-2 Client Node2 x SPARC V9 8-Core, 4.27GHz processorsTCP/IP, NFS

Processing Element Notes

Each Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 controller contains 2 physical processors, each with 18 processing cores.

Oracle S7-2 client contains 2 physical processors, each with 8 processing cores.

Memory - Physical

DescriptionSize in GiBNumber of InstancesNonvolatileTotal GiB
Memory in Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 4772V954
Memory in Oracle S7-2 clients 2382V476
Grand Total Memory Gibibytes1430

Memory Notes

The Oracle ZFS Storage controllers' main memory is used for the ZFS Adaptive Replacement Cache (ARC is a read data cache), as well as operating system memory.

Oracle S7-2 client memory is not used for storage or cache of the Oracle ZFS Storage ZS7-2 controllers, only for the client OS.

Stable Storage

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.

Solution Under Test Configuration Notes

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

Other Solution Notes

A non-default VDA WARMUP_TIME=600 was used.

Dataflow

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.

Other Notes

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.

Other Report Notes

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.


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