ANX 1500 SPECsfs2008 NFSv3 Results
ANX 1500 Delivers Lowest Overall Response Time
Published SPECsfs®2008_nfs.v3* test results demonstrate the performance capabilities of the ANX 1500 NFS Throughput Acceleration Appliance performance by delivering 120,954 Ops/Sec and the lowest reported ORT (Overall Response Time) of any submission to date: .92ms. When the ANX 1500 is used in conjunction with existing backend NAS systems, higher throughput can be achieved with far less latency. This allows customers to make the most of their present NAS investment and postpone acquiring additional NAS systems and the massive amount of disk-drives required to deliver performance, helping putting a lid on NAS sprawl.
For example, the published SPEC results featured the ANX 1500 working in conjunction with NetApp®’s older FAS6070 achieving approximately the same throughput as the newer model FAS6080, which used twice as many disk-drives and contained twice the processing power. In addition, the ANX and the FAS6070 achieved .92ms ORT compared to the FAS6080 which achieved 1.95ms, meaning that the ANX, assisting the older NetApp machine, achieved less than half the latency of the newer FAS6080. The unprecedented ORT of .92ms is of great benefit for many applications (such as rendering), and contributes to projects being completed faster. The ANX 1500’s high performance enables enterprises to require fewer disk drives and/or increase the utilization of existing drives and even use less expensive Tier 2 storage media while still meeting targeted performance. Lastly, CPU usage for the ANX 1500 hovered around 10% busy while the benchmark was running, meaning that there is ample “headroom” to accelerate additional or even more powerful NAS devices, such as a FAS6080.
SPECsfs testing made use of 160 data disk drives in FAS6070; SPECsfs results for NetApp indicated that 324 disk drives were used in FAS6080 submission. Alacritech’s SPECsfs submission indicated total of 188 drives: Includes 20 SSDs and 2 system disk drives incorporated in ANX1500 and 6 system disk-drives in FAS6070.
*SPECsfs is a trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Test results for Alacritech NFS Throughput Acceleration Appliance can be found at:www.spec.org/sfs2008/results/sfs2008nfs.html.
