Achieving 1.8 Million IOPS with commonly available off the shelf components

Опубликовано 13 ноября 2012, 21:08

Kingston Technology’s server-grade solid-state disk (SSD) drives can benefit companies currently utilizing hard disk drives in the bioscience and healthcare industries in a variety of ways. With a clear but challenging set of prototype design specifications from Orange Silicon Valley, Hyve Solutions concluded that LSI® was the logical choice for Orange Silicon Valley's storage controller performance targets due to the range of the LSI's product portfolio, field-tested reliability, maturity of designs and organizational depth. Hyve's recommendations included a 1600MHz Sandy Bridge-based platform with eight of the new PCIe 3.0 slots, 128GB of Kingston DDR III, three LSI MegaRAID® SATA SAS 9265-8i RAID controllers and 24 400GB Kingston E100 SSDs to meet Orange Silicon Valley's requirement for performance, data protection, scalability and cost, all while using the latest, commercially proven technologies.

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In the Hyve Solutions Proof-of-Concept lab, very close to a million IOPS was reached on the first test run. The system was tuned up until 1.8 million IOPS was reached consistently, as measured with IOMeter. System-wide cost savings have been estimated by Orange Silicon Valley to be between 50% and 75%, excluding any benefits that may accrue as a result of the smaller system footprint or lower power and cooling expenses.

Achievements in reaching 1.8 Million input/output operations per second (IOPS) utilizing commercially-available off the shelf (COTS) components, such as Kingston SSDs and RAM, have shown that allowing big data analysis tools to reach their true potential does not have to be costly or complex.