Netapp E Series Test Result

Netapp Properties:

Model: E5400 (E5400A-12GB-R6)
2 controller, 8 FC port(8 Gbit)
17 800GB SSD disk(16 data, 1 spare)
Aggrigate raid level: 5
Luns(2 Luns created, owner of N:\ is controller B and owner of L:\ is controller A) 
   segment size: 8 KB
   Dynamic cache read prefetch: Disabled

Host properties:

Windows server 2012 standart
CPU: Intel Xeon E7-4870 @ 2.40 Ghz
RAM: 1 TB
8 FC port(8 Gbit and connected all of them to storage)

SQLIO Properties:

content of paramssd.txt:
  N:\testfile.dat 1 0x0 2000
  L:\testfile.dat 1 0x0 2000
Commands:
Seuqential read:  sqlio -kR -s90 -fsequential -o50 -b128 -LS -FparamSsd.txt
Seuqential write: sqlio -kW -s90 -fsequential -o50 -b128 -LS -FparamSsd.txt

Random read: sqlio -kR -s90 -frandom -o20 -b8 -LS -FparamSsd.txt
Random write: sqlio -kW -s90 -frandom -o25 -b8 -LS -FparamSsd.txt

Results:

Seuqential read:  sqlio -kR -s30 -fsequential -o50 -b128 -LS -FparamSsd.txt
CUMULATIVE DATA:
throughput metrics:
IOs/sec: 49437.68
MBs/sec: 6179.71
latency metrics:
Min_Latency(ms): 0
Avg_Latency(ms): 1
Max_Latency(ms): 5

Seuqential write: sqlio -kW -s90 -fsequential -o50 -b128 -LS -FparamSsd.txt
CUMULATIVE DATA:
throughput metrics:
IOs/sec: 28860.01
MBs/sec: 3607.50
latency metrics:
Min_Latency(ms): 0
Avg_Latency(ms): 2
Max_Latency(ms): 177

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