Inspur AS5500G5 Storage System Resets Performance Record for SPC-1 Benchmark 8-Controller Storage

In the latest SPC-1 Benchmark result issued by the Storage Performance Council (SPC), Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co.,Ltd ‘s storage platform AS5500G5 made the SPC-1 Top-10 list with 3,300,292 IO/s and a 0.387ms response time, resetting the best performance of 8-controller storage.

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It is the second time the company’s 8-controller storage system made the list after AS5600G2 16-controller storage system ranked top 2 in the SPC-1 Top-10 list.

SPC is a professional measurement organization in the storage industry. SPC-1 Benchmark is the most actively tested program, aiming to assess the performance of storage systems that handle complex requests and large volumes of data, and measures various data features such as IO throughput, read-write response time sensitivity, dynamic workload changes, storage capacity utilization, user diversification, and data persistence.

According to the SPC-1 result, 10 products from 5 global mainstream storage providers, such as Inspur, Fujitsu and TTA, were included in the Top 10 list. Of that list, AS5600G2 ranked the second in the overall list and first in the 16-controller field with more than 7,520,000 IOPS, and AS5500G5 ranked eighth in the overall list and first in the 8-controller field with more than 3,300,000 IO/s.

“8-controller and 16-controller storage are the mainstream products in the industry, mainly covering the $15K-100K market, accounting for about 60% of the total storage market share. The performance advantages of Inspur’s storage solutions in these two areas will enhance its product competitiveness in the mainstream market,” said Li Hui, GM, storage product line.

The company’s storage solutions have dual leading advantages in performance and cost ratio of 8-controller storage. With the same controller configuration and IT cost, it can support more data access concurrently and improve business experience. The SPC-1 evaluation shows that the top 3 IO/s of the 8-controller storage performance were 3.3m, 2.7m and 1.6m, respectively, while that of the firm’s was 22% and 106% higher than that of the second and third place systems. Meanwhile, the price per KIO/s of the company’s 8-controller storage is $295.73, while the prices of the second and third are $481.08 and $445 respectively, 63% and 50% higher than the firm’s 8-controller storage.

Visible evaluation results reflect invisible technological innovation. In this review, the software and hardware technology of the AS5500G5 had been improved compared with the previous gen of AS5500G2, which doubled the performance of SPC-1 and halved the delay, thus besting the global 8-controller performance. At the hardware level, AS5500G5 uses a new gen of hardware to achieve an all-round upgrade to CPU, chip, specs and scalability. In this evaluation, AS5500G5 is configured with 4 dual-control nodes in the front end, each of which carries Intel’s new gen Xeon CPU with a 128GB cache, and all flash in the back end for deploying 1.92TB TLC SSD. At the software level, AS5500G5 is optimized based on iTurbo intelligent engine technology and all flash I/O stack, enabling storage systems to automatically match different data processing strategies according to front-end applications, to perform IO sensing, path selection, organization and scheduling so that millions of IO instructions and data blocks could be transmitted in the storage system at high speed.

Faced with the cloud computing, big data, AI and other new technologies and applications, the large-scale application of high-performance storage array is a trend in the next decade.

Resource:
Inspur’s SPC-1 benchmark report

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