Fujitsu Eternus DX8900 S4 AFA SPC-1 Storage Benchmark

The Fujitsu Ltd.‘s storage solution Eternus DX8900 S4 has achieved a double first in terms of high performance for a storage system – setting a benchmark record as well as being the first to break the ten million IO/s per second barrier, as confirmed by the latest results published by the Storage Performance Council (SPC).

Tests governed by the independent body SPC provide storage buyers with objective, relevant, and verifiable information allowing them to compare the performance of storage systems between vendors. New results published online in SPC’s Performance (SPC-1 IO/s) test confirm that the company has taken a lead. As well as achieving a breakthrough in terms of completing more than 10,000 IO/s, the Eternus DX8900 S4 outperforms competitors by a margin of at least 30%.

As enterprises store ever more data, and data centers are increasingly consolidated and virtualized, this places increased dependence on system performance – on the amounts of data that can be read/written by a storage system. Faster IO/s data means backups are completed faster – and information such as databases can be restored faster from backup, helping get business-critical systems back into production after a system failure.

SPC results underline how the Eternus DX8900 S4 is designed to reduce data center complexity by consolidating data for even the most-demanding business-critical applications, such as enterprise resource planning apps.

Offering up to 140PB of flash capacity, it eliminates the requirement to tier storage according to the importance of workloads, with dense, scalable and reliable storage powered by NVMe for accelerated read access. Thanks to a multiple redundant and scale-out architecture that combines multiple types of disk and flash drives to balance capacity, data access speed and cost, Eternus DX8900 S4 paves the way for fast, all-flash data centers.

The SPC-1 benchmark is designed to be vendor/platform independent and applicable across a range of storage configuration and topologies. 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.

In test results submitted to SPC on March 23, 2019, the Eternus DX8900 achieved 10,001,522 IO/s and an overall response time of 0.249ms. The test report is available for download from the SPC website.