Title :
SAN performance evaluation testbed
Author :
Sindi, Mohamad ; Liu, Edward ; Al-Shaikh, Raed
Author_Institution :
EXPEC Comput. Center, Saudi Aramco Oil Co., Dhahran
Abstract :
In recent years, we have witnessed a growing interest in high performance storage (HPS) using different SAN (Storage Area Network) solutions. Our growing needs for high performance storage solutions in Saudi Aramco, the world´s largest oil producing company, has provided an opportunity to evaluate some of the top SAN providers available in the market as an alternative to typical storage solutions. In this paper, we describe our testbed environment and show the I/O benchmark results for some of the major SAN solution providers in the market. The benchmarks show the best read and write I/O performance numbers for these SAN solutions using various numbers of Linux client nodes.
Keywords :
Linux; input-output programs; performance evaluation; storage area networks; I/O benchmark; Linux client nodes; SAN performance evaluation testbed; high performance storage; storage area network; Bandwidth; Benchmark testing; Cache storage; File servers; File systems; High performance computing; Linux; Network servers; Petroleum; Storage area networks; LMDD Benchmark; Linux Cluster; SAN; SNFS File System; Saudi Aramco;
Conference_Titel :
Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities and Workshops, 2009. TridentCom 2009. 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2846-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2847-2
DOI :
10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976191
