StorONE claimed that its TRU storage technology and S1 storage software amazingly ran at 1.7 million IOPS in a two-node ESXi server system. You may read this post in detail for more information.
Recently, StorONE has claimed its TRU storage technology and S1 storage software ran at 1.7 million IOPS in a two-node ESXi server system. It would be good to see some independent tests, but these figures are not independently verified.
According to the company, the two 2U dual x86 processor Supermicro servers are configured with high availability and use Western Digital 2U24 (2u x 24 slot) flash JBOD.
There were four client servers: an Oracle Linux with 4 x 16Gbit/s Fibre channel ports, a similar Centos server, and two Centos servers with 40Gbit E links. They were connected to StorONE devices via a 16Gbit/s FC switch and a 40GbitE switch with mixed protocols.
The company claims that its system provides 1.7 million random 4K IOPS for random reads, with delays of less than 0.3 milliseconds, 15GB/s sequential reads (128/256KB, CPU utilization is 30%), 7.5GB/s sequential writes (128/256KB), and 10GB/sec mixed 80/20 read/write (128KB) workload.
For context, the firm claimed, an all-flash array requires four times as much hardware to provide 1 million 500 thousand IOPS.
It indicates that its S1 virtual kit supports internal VMs and external iSCSI and fibre channel initiators, either ESXi or physical machines.
CEO Gal Naor, said: “StorONE is the only enterprise storage vendor that can extract full specifications from drives and deliver them to applications, with IOPS of 70,000 per drive and very low latency. I am proud of our results, which is 5-10 times more efficient than anyone else in the market. “
It says its TRU (Total Resource Utilisation) software has been developed for seven years and has redesigned the traditional storage software architecture in an unspecified way to make it more efficient – like a software black box.
Naor wrote on his blog that Enterprise storage systems suffer from extreme inefficiencies, resulting in a waste in hardware, budgets, management attention, environmental problems (such as power and cooling), infrastructures, real estate, etc… In many practical cases, the output of enterprise storage systems is less than 10 percent of the overall performance of the drives installed in the system.
StorONE said its software provides unlimited snapshots, support for all storage protocols (block, file and object) on the same drives, and support for all drive types (SAS, SATA, NVMe SSD or HDD) in the same server.
It claims that users can get 500,000 IOPS from a system with six SSDs and a single 40 Gbit E Mellanox port, and with TRU storage software, a customer’s hardware investment will match the driver’s rated IOPS, throughput and capacity, and provide a demo to potential buyers.
These hero numbers are great, but this is not an independent authoritative test of StorONE products. If the black box software is really good, it’s meaningful to put it in independent testing organizations.
About StoreONE
StorONE was founded by proven disruptive serial entrepreneurs and supported by top industry leaders and strategic investors, providing enterprise-class functionality, high performance, and high capacity. It currently develops a software platform to distribute large scale storage system.
With more than 50 patents awarded in their first six years of deep technical development, StorONE has achieved their revolutionary new technology that reimagines the fundamental nature of traditional storage software.
StorONE is funded by institutional and private investors, including Microsoft Chairman John Thompson, former CEO of Motorola and President of Sun Microsystems Edward Zander, and technology companies such as Seagate; and venture capital firms Giza, Vaizra and JGV. StorONE’s headquarter is in New York, with offices in Dallas, Tel Aviv and Singapore.