Musings on storage, tuning, backups and more – delivered with a no-nonsense approach. By Dimitris Krekoukias
<Edited to add some more information on how SPC-1 works since there was some confusion based on the comments received>
We’ve been busy at NetApp… busy perfecting the industry’s only scale-out unified platform, among other things.
We’ve already released ONTAP 8.1, which, in Cluster-Mode, allows 24 nodes (each with up to 8TB cache) for NAS workloads, and 4 nodes for block workloads (FC and iSCSI).
Continue reading “NetApp posts great Cluster-Mode SPC-1 result”
<Article updated with more accurate calculation>
There are some impressive new scores at storageperformance.org, with the usual crazy configurations of thousands of drives etc.
When looking at $/IOP, make sure you are comparing list price (look at the full disclosure report, that has all the details for each config).
Otherwise, you could get the wrong $/IOP since some vendors have list prices, others show heavy discounting.
Continue reading “Interpreting $/IOPS and IOPS/RAID correctly for various RAID types”