Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/08/huawei_spc_sfs2008_nfs_record/
Storage upstart Huawei snatches NFS filer crown
From the NFS filer crown jewels in the Tower
Posted in Storage, 8th November 2012 18:29 GMT
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Chinese storage interloper Huawei has shattered standards body SPEC's sfs2008 Network File System (NFS) benchmark [1] by scoring 3,064,602 IOPS. That's roughly twice as fast as rival Avere and NetApp 6240 clusters.
Read about the Avere and NetApp results here [2]. The Huawei result [3] came from a 24-node cluster of OceanStore N8500 nodes, using 144 X 400GB SSDs in 12 Dorado enclosures and 576 X 2TB SATA disk drives in 24 enclosures. The total exported capacity was 533.3TB and the overall response time was 1.39msecs.
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It's obvious that the SSDs contributed performance and the disk drives capacity - this is the new filer array storage paradigm.
This is also Huawei's third NFS benchmark-topping score, and it has been achieved after the Huawei-Symantec joint venture ended. It seems indisputable that the OceanStore N8500 has a damned good performance and Avere, EMC, NetApp and others have a lot of catching up to do if they want to regain top NFS benchmark bragging rights. ®