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By admin, October 9, 2010 11:41 am

Impressive Equallogic PS6000XV IOPS result

I just performed the test again 3 times and confirmed the followings, this is with default 1 Worker only, IOmeter testing using VM’s VMFS directly, no MPIO direct mapping to EQL array, VM is version 7, Disk Controller is Paravirtualized and NIC is VMXNet3.
SERVER TYPE: VM on ESX 4.1 with EQL MEM Plugin, VAAI enabled with Storage Hardware Acceleration
CPU TYPE / NUMBER: vCPU / 1
HOST TYPE: Dell PE R710, 96GB RAM; 2 x XEON 5650, 2,66 GHz, 12 Cores Total
STORAGE TYPE / DISK NUMBER / RAID LEVEL: Equallogic PS6000XV x 1 (15K), / 14+2 600GB Disks / RAID10 / 500GB Volume, 1MB Block Size
SAN TYPE / HBAs : ESX Software iSCSI, Broadcom 5709C TOE+iSCSI Offload NIC

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TEST NAME——————-Av. Resp. Time ms——Av. IOs/sek——-Av. MB/sek——
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Max Throughput-100%Read……4.1913………13934.42………435.45

RealLife-60%Rand-65%Read……13.4110………4051.49………31.65

Max Throughput-50%Read………5.5166………10240.39………320.01

Random-8k-70%Read……………14.1525………3915.15………28.95

EXCEPTIONS: CPU Util. 67.82, 38.12, 56.80, 40.2158%;

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RealLife-60%Rand-65%Read 4051 IOPS is really impressive for a single array with 14 15K RPM spindles!