SPECstorage™ Solution 2020_eda_blended Result
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| Oracle | SPECstorage Solution 2020_eda_blended = 1088 Job_Sets |
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| Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 Eight Drive Enclosure Hybrid Storage System | Overall Response Time = 0.35 msec |
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| Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 Eight Drive Enclosure Hybrid Storage System | |
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| Tested by | Oracle | Hardware Available | June 12, 2025 | Software Available | June 12, 2025 | Date Tested | April 2025 | License Number | 00073 | Licensee Locations | Redwood Shores, CA, USA |
The Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 system is a cost-effective, unified storage system that is ideal for performance-intensive, dynamic workloads. This enterprise-class storage system offers both NAS and SAN capabilities with industry-leading Oracle Database integration, in a highly available, clustered configuration. The Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 provides simplified configuration, management, and industry-leading storage Analytics. The performance-optimized platform leverages specialized read and write flash caching devices in the hybrid storage pool configuration, optimizing high-performance throughput and latency. The clustered Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 system scales to 2.0TB Memory per controller, includes 32 CPU cores per controller and 20 PB of disk storage. The Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance delivers excellent value with integrated data services for file and block-level protocols with connectivity over 32GB FC, 200GbE, 100GbE, 40GbE, 25GbE,10GbE and 1GbE. Data services include 5 levels of compression, deduplication, encryption, snapshots, and replication. An advanced data integrity architecture and four RAID redundancy options optimized for different workloads provide a strong data protection foundation
| Item No | Qty | Type | Vendor | Model/Name | Description |
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| 1 | 2 | Storage Controller | Oracle | Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 | Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 , 2 x 32-Core 2 x 2.95GHz AMD EPYC 9J15 CPU. 98304 MB DDR5-6400 DIMM. 2 x 3.84TB NVME Sansung boot drives. |
| 2 | 48 | Memory | Oracle | Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 | Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2, 24 x 96000 MB DDR5-6400 RDIMM. Memory is order configurable, a total of 2304GB was installed in each storage controller. |
| 3 | 8 | Storage Drive Enclosure | Oracle | Oracle Storage Drive Enclosure DE3-24C | 24 drive slot enclosure, SAS3 connected, 20 x 14TB Western Digital 7200 RPM - SAS-3 Disk Drive, 2 x Samsung 200GB - SAS-3 SSD, 2 x Samsung 7.68TB - SAS-3 SSD. Dual PSU. |
| 4 | 160 | SAS3 HDD | Oracle | WDC W7214A520ORA014T | 14TB Western Digital 7200 RPM - SAS-3 Disk Drive. Drive selection is order configurable. A total of 160 x 14TB Western Digital 7200 RPM - SAS-3 Disk Drive drives were installed across eight Oracle Storage Drive Enclosure DE3-24C. |
| 5 | 16 | SAS3 SSD | Oracle | Samsung MZILT960HBHQ | Samsung 200GB - SAS-3 Solid State Disk. Drive selection is order configurable, a total of 16 x Samsung 200GB - SAS-3 Solid State Disk drives were installed across eight Oracle Storage Drive Enclosure DE3-24C. These Drives are used for write accelerators. |
| 6 | 16 | SAS3 SSD | Oracle | Samsung MZILT6HALA | Samsung 7.68TB - SAS-3 Solid State Disk. Drive selection is order configurable, a total of 16 x Samsung 7.68TB - SAS-3 Solid State Disk drives were installed across eight Oracle Storage Drive Enclosure DE3-24C. These drives are used for ZFS L2 Adaptive Replacement Cache. |
| 7 | 4 | Client | Oracle | Oracle x9-2 | Oracle x9-2 Client Node, 2 x Intel Xeon Gold-5318Y 24-Core, 2.1GHz processors. 512GB RAM. 2 x (2 x 100GbE). Used for benchmark load generation. One is used for the prime client. |
| 8 | 8 | OS Drive | Oracle | Micron 5300 MTFD 240GB | Micron 5300 MTFD - Solid State Disk Drive. 2 x 240GB - Solid State Disk Drive M.2, one each of the disk drives in the Oracle x9-2 Client Node was installed for OS boot drive. |
| 9 | 1 | Switch | Arista | Arista DCS-7060CX-32S | Arista DCS-7060CX-32S, high-performance, low-latency 100/40/10/25/50 Gb/sec Ethernet switch. |
| 10 | 8 | Network Interface Card | Oracle | Dual 100-Gigabit SFP28 Ethernet | Mellanox ConnectX-5 VPI Dual Port QSFP28 100GbE Ethernet HBA, two in each x9-2 Client (Oracle Part Number 7364127). |
| 11 | 4 | Network Interface Card | Oracle | Dual 200-Gigabit SFP28 Ethernet | Mellanox ConnectX-7 VPI Dual Port QSFP28 200GbE Ethernet HBA, two in each ZS11-2 controller (Oracle Part Number 7603663). Can be ordered at the same time when ordering the Oracle ZS11-2 controllers. |
| 12 | 1 | Switch | CDW | Netgear Gigabit Switch GS724Tv4 | Netgear Gigabit Switch GS724Tv4 switch is used for the management and configuration network only. |
| Item No | Component | Type | Name and Version | Description |
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| 1 | Oracle ZFS Storage | Storage Controller OS | 8.8.81 | Oracle ZFS Storage OS Firmware. |
| 2 | Solaris | Workload Client OS | Solaris (11.4-11.4.37.0.1.101.1 ) | Workload Client Operating System |
| Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 | Parameter Name | Value | Description |
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| MTU | 9000 | Network Jumbo Frames | Oracle x9-2 Client Node | Parameter Name | Value | Description |
| MTU | 9000 | Network Jumbo Frames |
The System Under Test has 100GbE Ethernet ports set to MTU 9000.
| Oracle x9-2 Client Nodes | Parameter Name | Value | Description |
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| vers | 3 | NFS mount option set to version 3 |
| rsize, wsize | 1048576 | NFS mount option for the read and write buffer size. |
| forcedirectio | forcedirectio | NFS mount option set to forcedirectio |
| rpcmod:clnt_max_conns | 4 | Increases the number of NFS client connections from default of 1 to 4. |
Best practices settings for network and NFS client and the Oracle ZFS Storage using the 100GbE Ethernet for optimized performance includes setting the workload client NFS mounts of the Oracle to use forcedirectio, and read and write NFS buffer sizes to 1048576 bytes each. Oracle ZFS Storage controllers software configuration and tuning are set to factory defaults.
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| Item No | Description | Data Protection | Stable Storage | Qty |
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| 1 | 160 x 14TB HDD Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 Data Pool Drives | RAID-10 | Yes | 160 |
| 2 | 16 x 200GB SSD Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 Log Drives | None | Yes | 16 |
| 3 | Samsung 7.68TB - SAS-3 Solid State Disk ZS11-2 Read Cache Drives | None | Yes | 16 |
| 4 | 3.84TB NVME Samsung SSD Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 OS Drives | Mirrored | No | 4 |
| 5 | 223GB Micron 5300 SSD x9-2 Client Node OS Drives | None | No | 4 |
| Number of Filesystems | 2 | Total Capacity | 930 TiB | Filesystem Type | ZFS |
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Two ZFS storage pools are created overall in the System Under Test (one storage pool and ZFS filesystem per Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 controller). Each storage pool is configured with 76 HDD drives, 8 write accelerator SSDs (log devices), 8 L2 Adaptive Replacement Cache SSDs (read cache), and 4 hot spare HDDs. The storage pools are configured via the administrative browser interface. Each storage controller assigns half the disk drives, log devices, and cache devices to be used. Next, the storage pools profiles are set to mirror (RAID-10) across the 76 data HDDs drives. The log profile and cache device profiles used are set to be striped. The log construct in each storage pool is the ZFS Intent Log (ZIL) for the pool. The cache construct is the ZFS L2 Adaptive Replacement Cache for the pool. Each storage pool is also configured as a ZFS filesystem which is then configured with 16 ZFS filesystem shares. Since each Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 controller is configured with one storage pool and is a ZFS filesystem and contains 16 ZFS filesystem shares, the System Under Test has 32 ZFS filesystem shares (32 NFS shares). There are 2 internal mirrored system disk drives per Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 controller and are used only for the controllers NAS operating system. These drives are exclusively used for the NAS Firmware and do not cache or store user data. Each of the Oracle x9-2 workload clients mounts 4 NFS shares per Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 controller for a total of 8 NFS shares. Each Oracle x9-2 workload client uses 2 100Gbe networks. (see Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 Filesystem and Network Configuration Diagram).
All filesystems on both Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 controllers are created with a setting of the Database Record Size of 128KB. The logbias setting is set to latency (the default value) for each filesystem. These standard settings are controlled through the Oracle ZFS Storage administration using the Administration browser or cli interfaces.
| Item No | Transport Type | Number of Ports Used | Notes |
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| 1 | 100GbE Ethernet | 8 | Each Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 Controller is networked via 4 x 200GbE Ethernet physical ports for data. |
| 2 | 1GbE Ethernet | 2 | Each Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 Controller uses 1 x 1GbE Ethernet physical port for NAS configuration and management. |
| 3 | 100GbE Ethernet | 8 | Each Oracle x9-2 Client Node uses is networked via 2 x 100GbE Ethernet physical ports for data. |
| 4 | 1GbE Ethernet | 4 | Each Oracle x9-2 Client Node uses 1 x 1GbE Ethernet physical port for configuration and management. |
Each Oracle ZFS Storage controller uses 4 x 200 GbE Ethernet ports for a total of 8 x 200 GbE ports. In the event of a controller failure, IP address will be taken over by the surviving controller. All 200 GbE ports are set to MTU 9000. There is 1 x 1GbE port per controller and client that are assigned as the administration interface, each are connected to the 1GbE ports on the Netgear Gigbit switch. These interfaces are only used to manage the controllers and clients. They do not take part in data services in the System Under Test.
| Item No | Switch Name | Switch Type | Total Port Count | Used Port Count | Notes |
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| 1 | Arista DCS-7060CX-32S | 100/40/10/25/50 Gb/sec Ethernet Switch | 32 | 16 | All ports set for MTU 9000. Port count based on 100Gbe. |
| 2 | Netgear Gigabit Switch GS724Tv4 | 10/100/1000 Mb/sec Ethernet Switch | 26 | 6 | Only the 1GbE ports are used for Management and Configuration of SUT |
| Item No | Qty | Type | Location | Description | Processing Function |
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| 1 | 4 | CPU | Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 | 2 x 32-Core 2x2.95GHz AMD EPYC 9J15 CPU | ZFS, TCP/IP, RAID/Storage Drivers, NFS |
| 2 | 8 | CPU | Oracle x9-2 Client Node | 2 x 24-Core 2.1GHz Xeon Gold 5318Y processors | TCP/IP, NFS |
Each Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 controller contains 2 physical processors, each with 32 processing cores. Oracle x9-2 client contains 2 physical processors, each with 24 processing cores.
| Description | Size in GiB | Number of Instances | Nonvolatile | Total GiB |
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| Memory in Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 | 2304 | 2 | V | 4608 |
| Memory in Oracle x9-2 clients | 512 | 4 | V | 2048 | Grand Total Memory Gibibytes | 6656 |
The Oracle ZFS Storage controllers' main memory is used for the ZFS Adaptive Replacement Cache (ARC is a read data cache), as well as operating system memory.Oracle x9-2 client memory is not used for storage or cache of the Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 controllers, only for the client OS.
The Stable Storage requirement is guaranteed by the ZFS Intent Log (ZIL) which logs writes and other filesystem changing transactions to the stable storage of write flash accelerator SSDs or HDDs depending on the configuration. The System Under Test uses write flash accelerator SSDs. Writes and other filesystem changing transactions are not acknowledged until the data is written to stable storage. The Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance is an active-active cluster high availability system. In the event of a controller failure or power loss, each controller can take over for the other. Write flash accelerator SSDs and/or HDDs are located in shared disk shelves and can be accessed via the 16 backend SAS-3 channels from both controllers, the remaining active controller can complete any outstanding transactions using the ZIL. In the event of power loss to both controllers, the ZIL is used after power is restored to reinstate any writes and other filesystem changes.
The System Under Test is the Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 in an active-active failover configuration.
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Please reference the System Under Test diagram. The 4 Oracle x9-2 workload clients are used for benchmark load generation. The Oracle x9-2 workload clients each mount 8 of the total 32 filesystem shares provided by the Oracle ZFS Storage cluster via NFSv3. Sixteen filesystem shares are shared from each Oracle ZFS Storage controller. Each of the two Oracle ZFS Storage controllers has 4 x 200GbE Ethernet ports for data service, all ports are assigned separate networks. Each Oracle x9-2 workload client has 4 x 100GbE Ethernet ports only 2 ports are used, mounting 8 NFS shares per client over two networks. This is in the Oracle ZFS Storage ZS11-2 Filesystem and Network Configuration diagram.
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