SAN Performance Evaluation Testbed

Mohamad Sindi; Edward Liu; Raed Al-Shaikh

5th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities

Research Article

SAN Performance Evaluation Testbed

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976191,
    author={Mohamad Sindi and Edward Liu and Raed Al-Shaikh},
    title={SAN Performance Evaluation Testbed},
    proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Testbeds and  Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={TRIDENTCOM},
    year={2009},
    month={5},
    keywords={LMDD Benchmark  Linux Cluster  SAN  SNFS File System  Saudi Aramco},
    doi={10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976191}
}

Mohamad Sindi
Edward Liu
Raed Al-Shaikh
Year: 2009
SAN Performance Evaluation Testbed
TRIDENTCOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976191

Mohamad Sindi¹^,*, Edward Liu¹^,*, Raed Al-Shaikh¹^,*

1: EXPEC Computer Center Saudi Aramco Oil Company Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

*Contact email: sindimo@aramco.com, liuec@aramco.com, shaira0a@aramco.com

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: LMDD Benchmark Linux Cluster SAN SNFS File System Saudi Aramco

Published: 2009-05-26
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976191