Results for IOmark-VDI Results With Hitachi HCI Cluster System

IOmark and Evaluator Group announce record IOmark-VDI-HC benchmark results for Hitachi Ltd.

A 6-node, Hitachi’s cluster was verified to support 864 VMs running the IOmark virtual desktop ‘Heavy’ application workload. The IOmark-VDI benchmark certifies that the tested configuration meets the storage workload requirements while IOmark-VDI-HC additionally certifies that hyperconverged systems can support the application CPU and memory requirements.

“The scale and performance of Hitachi Ltd.’s hyperconverged cluster surpassed other HCI configurations using six or fewer nodes for VDI workloads,” said Russ Fellows, senior partner, Evaluator Group. “These results establish Hitachi Ltd.’s solution as a leader for performance and price per VDI user, surpassing previous hyperconverged IOmark-VDI results per node.“

In total, Hitachi is releasing results of 7 different configurations tested using IOmark-VDI, ranging from 3-node HCI clusters supporting 384 users to their top 6-node configuration supporting 864 IOmark-VDI users. Each tested configuration consisted of 3 nodes running vSAN with applications, along with some configurations utilizing additional VMware compute only nodes in order to support the IOmark-VDI-HC workload.

Key features noted during testing include:

Hitachi HCI clusters utilized VMware with vSAN and HCI Mesh to support compute-only nodes
The tested configurations utilized vSAN mirroring data protection, and either one or two vSAN disk groups, configuration dependent
For all tests, more than 70% of response times were less than 2ms

“These results prove that Hitachi HCI systems may be scaled to support a wide range of workload requirements,” said Kaneko Isamu, manager, Hitachi. “The ability to efficiently support a wide range of VDI workloads leveraged key technologies, including Intel SSDs and Optane NVMe for vSAN. Additionally, the use of Intel Persistent Memory (PMem) helped achieve the leading price / performance results.“

The IOmark benchmark results are audited to ensure uniform testing and reporting of results, enabling IT users to compare products using the metrics that matter: price, capacity and application performance. The application mix for IOmark-VDI includes typical Microsoft Office application suite, along with other common VDI software such as browser sessions, Adobe Acrobat, web-browsers and consuming audio-visual media.

IOmark-VDI-HC benchmark requires following to achieve passing results:

Total test time is one hour, with a measured interval of 30mn
70% of response times for I/Os must not exceed 10ms

Evaluator Group is the developer of IOmark, a software test platform that may be licensed to use for validation or other testing. Vendors, performance testing labs and channel partners may purchase the tool to use in their lab and for publishing audited results. IT end users may purchase a discounted license. An evaluation license may be obtained for 30 days for internal trials.

Resource:
IOmark-VM Full Disclosure Report on Hitachi HCI Cluster system