Infortrend Celebrates Its ESVA SPC-1 Results
Storage Performance Council measures very high throughput from Enterprise Scalable Virtualized Architecture F60 systems.
Network storage innovator Infortrend received good marks this week from the Storage Performance Council regarding its Enterprise Scalable Virtualized Architecture (ESVA). According to the Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1 results, the ESVA had proven itself to be the midrange storage array that provided the highest performance at the lowest cost.
The Infortrend SPC-1 configuration consisted of 12 ESVA F60 syste
ms that were consolidated into a storage pool through virtualization technology, working together to deliver a throughput result of 180,488.53 SPC-1 IOPS(1) with an average response time of 8.38 milliseconds with the system at a 100 percent workload level, and an average response time of 1.79 milliseconds at a 10 percent workload level.†
The SPC-1 Result also indicated that, at different workload levels ranging from 10 percent to 100 percent, ESVA provided similarly prompt responses to I/O operations.†ESVA also achieved a SPC-1 Price-Performance of $5.12/ SPC-1 IOPS.†
Indeed, according to Infortrend itself, the ESVA F60 systems can support online transactional processing as well as such business applications as SQL, Exchange, and Oracle.†
“Infortrend is to be congratulated on submitting an outstanding first SPC-1 Result,” says SPC administrator Walter E. Baker.†”Infortrend’s use of SPC-1 to demonstrate the ESVA F60’s performance, response time, and price-performance provides end-users with objective and verifiable information that can be used in product comparisons and purchase decisions.”
For Infortrend’s part, the SPC results were seen as a validation of the company’s confidence. “By setting such a high performance record at a low cost and with a quick response time, ESVA has demonstrated its ability to help businesses deal with diverse applications and optimize return on investment,” says Infortrend vice president of global marketing James Hsieh. “For midrange customers, ESVA is an ideal solution to enhance business competitiveness while lowering total cost of ownership.”
Infortrend has released five models from the ESVA family thus far: the ESVA F20, the ESVA F40 and the ESVA F60 for Fibre Channel (FC) SANs; the ESVA E20, and the ESVA E60 for IP SANs. The ESVA family provides many advanced features, including CacheSafe technology, snapshot, data replication, thin provisioning, dynamic load-balancing, and power-saving designs.†
