SPEC SFS(R)2014_vda Result Oracle Corporation : Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-2 SPEC SFS2014_vda = 800 Streams (Overall Response Time = 29.98 msec) =============================================================================== Performance =========== Business Average Metric Latency Streams Streams (Streams) (msec) Ops/Sec MB/Sec ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ 80 13.2 800 367 160 16.3 1600 738 240 18.4 2401 1108 320 21.0 3202 1469 400 23.8 4003 1837 480 26.6 4802 2212 560 31.0 5603 2581 640 40.4 6403 2947 720 51.3 7203 3323 800 69.2 8000 3691 =============================================================================== Product and Test Information ============================ +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-2 | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ Tested by Oracle Corporation Hardware Available August 2016 Software Available August 2016 Date Tested August 2016 License Number 6 Licensee Locations Broomfield, CO USA The Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-2 is a mid-range high-performance storage system that offers enterprise-class NAS and SAN capabilities with industry-leading Oracle Database integration, in a cost-effective high-availability configuration. The Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-2 offers simplified set up and management combined with industry-leading storage analytics and a performance-optimized platform that uses specialized Read and Write Flash caching devices. The Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-2 can scale to 512 GB Memory, 32 CPU cores, and 1.5 PB capacity, with up to 12.8 TB of Flash Cache in a high-availability configuration. Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances deliver additional economic value bundled data services such as file- and block-level protocols including connectivity over InfiniBand, Compression, Deduplication, Thin provisioning, DTrace Analytics, Virus Scan, Snapshots, Triple Mirror, Triple Parity RAID, Phone-home, NDMP, Clustering, etc. Solution Under Test Bill of Materials ===================================== Item No Qty Type Vendor Model/Name Description ---- ---- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------------------------------- 1 2 Storage Oracle Oracle ZFS Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-2: Controller Storage ZS controllers part #7103829 3-2:contro includes 1 - SAS2 PCIE 16 port HBA ller 2 32 Controller Oracle Memory 16 GB DDR3-1600 registered DIMM Memory DIMM (for factory installation) part #7102984 3 6 10 Oracle Sun PCI-E Sun Dual 10GbE SFP+ PCIe 2.0 Low Gigabit Dual 10GbE Profile adapter Ethernet Fiber incorporating Intel 82599 10 Adapter Gigabit Ethernet controller and supporting pluggable SFP+ Transceivers. ROHS-5. ATO option (2 installed in Client Oracle X5-2) part #7051223 4 12 Short Wave Oracle 10Gbps Dual rate transceiver: SFP+ SR. Pluggable Short Wave Support 1 Gb/sec and 10 Transceive Pluggable Gb/sec dual rate (for factory r Transceive installation both ZS3-2 r (SFP+) storage server and X5-2 client) part #2129A 5 12 Storage Oracle Oracle Oracle Storage Drive Enclosure Drive Storage DE2-24P: base chassis (for Enclosure Drive factory installation) part #7103910 Enclosure Note: All 12 of the DE2-24P DE2-24P enclosures are populated with 24 disk drives. 6 288 Disk Oracle Disk 300 GB 10000 rpm 2.5 inch SAS-2 HDD Drives Drives part #7044283 300GB 10K RPM 2.5 inch SAS-2 HDD 7 2 HBA Oracle SAS-2 PCIE SAS-2 back end HBA part #7103790 6Gbs (for factory installation) 16-port HBA 8 16 Cables Oracle SAS-2 SAS-2 back end cables part #7104928 Cables 9 1 Switch Arista Arista 10Gb Ethernet Optical Switch *Note: 7124SX The switch currently in 10Gb not available new from the Switch manufacturer but is available from other venders. Factory support for the Arista switch is thru 2017. 10 1 Client Oracle Oracle with factory installed memory of X5-2 128GB Configuration Diagrams ====================== 1) sfs2014-20160825-00015.config1.jpg (see SPEC SFS2014 results webpage) Component Software ================== Item Name and No Component Type Version Description ---- ------------ ------------ ------------ ----------------------------------- 1 Oracle ZFS Storage 8.6 Oracle Storage ZFS OS for storage Storage Controllers controllers 2 Oracle Client Node 11.3 Oracle Operating System on client Solaris OS node Solaris 11.3 Hardware Configuration and Tuning - Physical ============================================ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Oracle ZS3-2 storage controllers | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Parameter Name Value Description --------------- --------------- ---------------------------------------- MTU 9000 Jumbo Frames setup +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Oracle X5-2 Client | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Parameter Name Value Description --------------- --------------- ---------------------------------------- MTU 9000 Jumbo Frames setup Hardware Configuration and Tuning Notes --------------------------------------- Oracle ZS3-2 storage controllers 10Gb ethernet ports are setup to MTU of 9000 jumbo frames. Oracle X5-2 client is 10Gb ethernet ports are setup to MTU of 9000 jumbo frames. Software Configuration and Tuning - Physical ============================================ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Oracle X5-2 Client | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Parameter Name Value Description --------------- --------------- ---------------------------------------- vers 3 NFS mount option to set NFS mount version 3 rsize,wsize 1048576 NFS mount option for data block size forcedirectio forcedirectio NFS mount option for directio to storage server max_buf 16777216 TCP max send receive buffer size send_buf 4194304 TCP send buffer size recv_buf 4194304 TCP receive buffer size +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Oracle ZS3-2 Controllers | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Parameter Name Value Description --------------- --------------- ---------------------------------------- Maximum # of 1000 Sets up maximum number of NFS server server threads threads used by Oracle ZS3-2 Controllers Software Configuration and Tuning Notes --------------------------------------- Tune the communications between Oracle X5-2 client and the Oracle ZS3-2 controllers over the 10Gb ethernet by optimizing amount of data transfer and minimum overhead. This includes setting the Oracle X5-2 clients mounts of the Oracle ZS3-2 files systems to use forcedirectio, read and write sizes to 1048576, along with increasing the Oracle X5-2 client send and receive buffers sizes to 4194304. Service SLA Notes ----------------- None Storage and Filesystems ======================= Item Stable No Description Data Protection Storage Qty ---- ------------------------------------- ------------------ -------- ----- 1 300GB SAS 10K RPM Disk RAID-10 Yes 288 Drives 2 500GB SATA 7.2K RPM Disk Mirrored no 4 Drives Oracle ZS3-2 Controllers OS disk drives 3 500GB SATA 7.2K RPM Disk Mirrored no 2 Drives Oracle X5-2 Client OS Number of Filesystems 240 Total Capacity 33.44TiB Filesystem Type ZFS Filesystem Creation Notes ------------------------- Both controllers are setup with 8 storage pools total (4 storage pools per Oracle ZS3-2 controller). Each of the controller's storage pools are configured with 34 disk drives, and 2 spare disk drives. When configuring the storage pool via the administrative html interface of each ZS3-2 storage controller, at the start you will be asked to select the number of disk drives to use per tray. Select 6 drives on 6 of the trays. In total the number of disk drives selected is 36. The system will configure the spares into the storage pool after you select the data profile. The storage pools are set up to mirror the data (RAID-10) across all 34 drives (Note: When configuring storage pools on the Oracle ZS3-2 controllers this a data profile of Mirrored). After the storage pools are created, each of the storage pools are configured with 100 ZFS filesystems each. Since each controller is configured with 4 storage pools and each storage pool contains 100 ZFS filesystems, in total each controller has 400 ZFS filesystems. Both of the controllers together in total have 800 ZFS filesystems. There are 2 internal mirrored system disk drives per Oracle ZS3-2 controller and are used only for the controllers core operating system. These drives are not used for data cache or storing user data. Storage and Filesystem Notes ---------------------------- None Transport Configuration - Physical ================================== Item Number of No Transport Type Ports Used Notes ---- --------------- ---------- ----------------------------------------------- 1 10 Gigabit 12 Each Oracle ZS3-2 controller has 2 Dual port 10 Ethernet Gigabit Ethernet cards. Oracle X5-2 client also has 2 Dual port 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards. Transport Configuration Notes ----------------------------- Each Oracle ZS3-2 uses 2 active 10Gb ports and 2 standby ports. Total Oracle ZS3-2 controllers use 4 ports active and 4 ports on standby. All ports active and standby are setup with the MTU size is set to 9000 on each of the 10 Gb ports. The single Oracle X5-2 client uses both ports of the 2 dual port 10 Gb ethernet cards. The 4 ports used are set to MTU of 9000. Switches - Physical =================== Total Used Item Port Port No Switch Name Switch Type Count Count Notes ---- -------------------- --------------- ------ ----- ------------------------ 1 Arista 7124 10Gb 10Gb Ethernet 24 12 All ports setup to do Switch Jumbo Frames on the Arista 7124SX 10Gb Switch Processing Elements - Physical ============================== Item No Qty Type Location Description Processing Function ---- ---- -------- -------------- ------------------------- ------------------- 1 4 CPU Oracle ZS3-2 2.1GHz Intel Xeon E5-2658 NFS, ZFS, TCP/IP, Storage Server RAID/Storage Drivers 2 2 CPU Oracle X5-2 2.6GHz Intel Xeon E5-2660 NFS Client Solaris Client OS Processing Element Notes ------------------------ Each Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-2 controller contains 2 physical processors, each with 8 processing cores. Oracle X5-2 client contains 2 physical processors, each with 10 processing cores. Oracle X5-2 client processors SMT is set to the default settings of Solaris 11.3. Memory - Physical ================= Size in Number of Description GiB Instances Nonvolatile Total GiB ------------------------- ---------- ---------- ------------ ------------ Memory for Oracle ZFS 256 2 V 512 ZS3-2 Storage Controllers Memory for Oracle X5-2 128 1 V 128 Client Grand Total Memory Gibibytes 640 Memory Notes ------------ The Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-2 controllers' main memory is used for the Adaptive Replacement Cache (ARC), the data cache, and operating system memory. Oracle X5-2 client memory is not use for storage or cache of the Oracle ZFS ZS3-2 storage controllers, just for the client use. Stable Storage ============== The Stable Storage requirement is guaranteed by the ZFS Intent Log (ZIL) which logs writes and other filesystem changing transactions to either a write flash accelerator or a disk drive. Writes and other filesystem changing transactions are not acknowledged until the data is written to stable storage. Since this is an active-active cluster high availability system, in the event of a controller failing or power loss, the other active controller can take over for the failed controller. Since the write flash accelerators or disk drives are located in the disk shelves and can be accessed via the 4 backend SAS 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 system under test is a Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-2 storage controllers are setup in an active-active cluster configuration with failover capabilities. Other Solution Notes ==================== None Dataflow ======== Please reference the configuration diagram. A single client is used for the as the benchmark load generator. The client Oracle X5-2 mounted all filesystem via NFSv3 of the Oracle ZS3-2 storage controllers. The filesystems are numbered 1-800. ZS3-2a has filesystems 1-400 and ZS3-2b has filesystems 401-800 all total 800 filesystems between the 2 ZS3-2 controllers. Oracle ZS3-2 storage controller active ports, 1,2,3 and 4 are assigned separate subnets. Mount the filesystem 1 of the ZS3-2a using 10Gb ethernet port 1 then the filesystem 401 is mounted of the ZS3-2b using 10Gb ethernet port 3, then filesystem 101 is mounted of the ZS3-2a using 10Gb ethernet port 2 and then filesystem 501 is mounted of the ZS3-2b using 10Gb ethernet port 4. The next set would be filesystem 201 of the ZS3-2a using 10Gb ethernet port 1 then the filesystem 601 is mounted of the ZS3-2b using 10Gb ethernet port 3, then filesystem 301 is mounted of the ZS3-2a using 10Gb ethernet port 2 and then filesystem 701 is mounted of the ZS3-2b using 10Gb ethernet port 4, next filesystems 2, 402, 102,and 502, and so on, until all 800 filesystems are mounted. So in effect, this will round-robin mount the filesystems to spread the load across the storage pools and the Oracle ZS3-2 controllers. Other Notes =========== Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. Intel and Xeon are registered trademarks of the Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. Arista is a registered trademark for Arista. Other Report Notes ================== None =============================================================================== Generated on Wed Mar 13 16:51:43 2019 by SpecReport Copyright (C) 2016-2019 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation