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DataCore’s SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor is a comprehensive, yet hardware-independent solution which fundamentally changes the economics of provisioning, replicating and protecting storage for large enterprises and small to midsize businesses.

Dot Hill’s 3000 and 4000 Series are certified with DataCore and easily combine with SANsymphony-V to provide a high performing, reliable infrastructure that accommodates data migration, as well as high availability (HA) and high performance infrastructures.  

We’re recently published 3 Solution briefs that help solution architects to combine the two for more availability, greater performance, and easier data migration.

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Who and What is Included?

This chart includes only vendors daring enough to submit test results to an outside auditor to validate their claims. Players like IBM, Dot Hill, XIO and Fujitsu. So, if you are looking for actually data that you can compare between vendors. View the Performance Report. 

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What’s an SPC-1 Benchmark between friends, or even competitors? A good result means performance that translates to value for customers.

We don’t want to brag… but we just published some pretty important benchmarks for the AssuredSAN Pro 5000, which demonstrates both its impressive value/performance characteristics and also the clear benefit of real-time SSD tiering.

of $115,407, or $2.96 per SPC-1 IOP, for the benchmark configuration illustrates exceptional value for midrange customers.

What is Special about SPC and its Benchmarking Process?

The SPC is a non-profit corporation founded to define, standardize and promote storage benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable storage performance data to the computer industry and its customers. The organization’s strategic objectives are to empower storage to more rapidly trust and deploy multi-vendor storage technology.

The SPC-1 benchmark is a true appraisal of enterprise storage performance and measures total IOPS, price-performance (cost per IOPS), and total cost of ownership (which includes three years of warranty support). The AssuredSAN Pro 5000 demonstrated the best combination of SPC-1 Price-

SSD Tier Boosts Performance by 85%

During the test performed by Dot Hill, the effect of Dot Hill’s real time tiering was demonstrated as the storage array autonomically adapted to the SPC-1’s dynamic workload: there was an 85% increase in performance when comparing the reported

performance at the start of the Ramp-Up Test Run’s measurement interval to the reported performance of the Sustainability Test Run.

SPC-1 Workload Described

SPC-1 benchmark results provide a source of comparative storage performance information that is objective, relevant, and verifiable. SPC-1 consists of a single workload designed to demonstrate the performance of a storage subsystem while performing the typical functions of business critical applications. Those applications are characterized by predominately random I/O operations and require both queries as well as update operations. Examples of those types of applications include OLTP, database operations, and mail server implementations.

Benchmark Configuration

The AssuredSAN Pro 5000 configuration used for the SPC-1 testing consisted of three 2U chassis, 39.2 TB of raw capacity with 8 SSD drives and 64 HDD drives. RealStor software and three year warranty support was factored into a total price of $115,407.

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Notes:

Today’s Data Centers are embracing Server Virtualization as a means to optimize hardware resources, energy resources, and real estate.  In fact, most Data Centers, large and small, have already moved the majority of non-critical applications to virtualized environments.  The next step in this evolution towards Virtualization is to migrate mission critical, tier one applications to the Virtual Machine. 

However, in order to gain the trust of IT departments, the virtualization environment must offer the features of a Five 9’s High Availability infrastructure and provide guarantees of scalability, performance and reliability.  In order to accomplish this, all of the components of the infrastructure must meet these new demands.

VMware’s flagship vSphere virtualization product is ready to manage mission critical applications.  It provides world class high availability features and resource management tools that allow customers to give priority to tier one applications. 

What about Storage?

To complement these distributed virtualized computing environments, Dot Hill Systems offers networked storage solutions that provide equivalent high availability and reliability features for the underlying storage subsystem.

Dot Hill Systems is an active partner with VMware in bringing comprehensive virtualized solutions to customers.  The Dot Hill AssuredSAN™ Pro 5000 Series Storage Arrays with RealStor™ Technology are designed to be integral components in demanding High Availability computing environments, delivering data to servers from a robust, reliable and high performance platform.

Dot Hill just published the “VMware Best Practices Guide for the AssuredSAN Pro 5000.” If you are interested in how the Pro 5000 works with VMware, covering everything from configuration tips to VM performance, visit our Resources page at www.dothill.com/resources.

More about the AssuredSAN Pro 5000 tiered storage system.