Demartek Evaluation of IBM FlashSystem 840 With VMware VMmark 2.5

"Near perfect linear scaling"

This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on September 15, 2014 at 2:42 pm

IBM Corp. commissioned Demartek, LLC to evaluate the performance of IBM FlashSystem 840, an all-flash storage array, by running the VMware VMmark2 benchmark against systems under test using FlashSystem 840 as the virtual machine storage.

IBM FlashSystem 840 is an all-flash storage system designed for very low, sub-millisecond latency, trademarked as IBM MicroLatency.

It achieved a near perfect linear scaling for VMmark2 scores across a range of tiles, comparable to or better than similar published results. Latency values from array performance were in the sub-millisecond range, resulting in excellent QoS scores from the benchmark.

To read the evaluation