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Andrew W. Lin
David Whitworth
Sonny E. Williams
Yan Xu
Document WP101799
Systems and Technology Group
2010, International Business Machines Corporation
IBM DS8800 Performance
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the following colleagues for their comments and insight:
Lee La Frese IBM Systems & Technology Group, Tucson, AZ
Joseph Hyde IBM Systems & Technology Group, Tucson, AZ
Allen Marin IBM Systems & Technology Group, Boulder, CO
Vic Peltz IBM Systems & Technology Group, San Jose, CA
David Sacks IBM Systems & Technology Group, Chicago, IL
Christopher Sansone IBM Systems & Technology Group, Tucson, AZ
Leslie Sutton IBM Systems & Technology Group, Poughkeepsie, NY
A Note to the Reader
This White Paper assumes a familiarity with the general concepts of Enterprise Disk Storage
Systems. Readers unfamiliar with these topics should consult the References section at the
end of this paper.
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary ................................................................................................................... 5
1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 6
1.1 Audience ........................................................................................................................ 6
1.2 Overview of DS8800 Hardware Enhancements.............................................................. 7
2 Open Systems Performance .............................................................................................. 8
2.1 SPC-2 Benchmark Results............................................................................................. 8
2.2 Maximum Throughput Benchmarks................................................................................ 9
2.3 OLTP Performance........................................................................................................10
3 Host Adapter Performance................................................................................................12
4 Device Adapter Performance ............................................................................................14
5 Drive Performance ............................................................................................................16
5.1 HDD Performance.........................................................................................................16
5.2 SSD Performance .........................................................................................................18
6 System z Performance......................................................................................................22
6.1 Maximum Throughput Benchmarks...............................................................................22
6.2 OLTP Performance........................................................................................................23
7 Copy Services Performance..............................................................................................25
7.1 FlashCopy .....................................................................................................................25
7.2 Metro Mirror Establish ...................................................................................................27
8 Conclusions.......................................................................................................................29
9 References........................................................................................................................29
10 Appendix ...........................................................................................................................30
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Executive Summary
This paper describes the results of performance measurements conducted by the IBM
Enterprise Storage performance team in Tucson, AZ utilizing the POWER6+ server
technology enhanced IBM
System Storage