Exanet ExaStore 2008 Clustered NAS Reaches 119,550 Operations per Second

Exanet’s ExaStore 2008 Clustered NAS has achieved 119,550 operations per second with an overall response time of 2.07 milliseconds on the new industry standard SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 benchmark. A new world-record performance level for this benchmark, it is more than six times the prior record. This demonstrates Exanet’s continued commitment to performance scalability and investment protection over time for its customers.
 
Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Lab witnessed the tests and has confirmed that ExaStore clustered NAS delivers impressive SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 results of 119,550 ops/sec for an eight-node system and 29,921 ops/sec for a two-node system. ESG also verified that performance scales in a predictably linear fashion as resources are added, meaning that ExaStore delivers excellent levels of cost-optimized performance and scalability.

 
“Exanet is committed to doing one thing in the NAS market, and doing it to the utmost. This can be summarized as providing ‘optimum performance’ – where optimum means a very flexible and ultra-high performing system that’s actually usable,” says Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) analyst, Mark Peters. “Its ExaStore offering scales well in terms of capacity and performance, is easy to manage, and provides a resource-efficient file storage system that matches perfectly to a growing IT and business need. ExaStore is extremely versatile, both in terms of its raw capabilities and in terms of the applications and industries it can support.”
 
Exanet benchmarked two ExaStore Clustered NAS Systems, an eight-server cluster and a two-server cluster. Both clusters were based on the ExaStore 2008 software, EX1500 NAS Servers and DX12 storage arrays.
 
These are fully redundant, high availability configurations – the first ones with this benchmark in the industry. The configurations are also completely standard with no special tuning required to improve the benchmark results. These results demonstrate both ExaStore’s low cost of ownership and the fact that Exanet clients don’t have to spend a lot of money on storage administration to achieve great performance.
 
“We have consistently shown that Exanet’s ExaStore Clustered NAS systems are the fastest and most efficient on the market, from our first SPECsfs97 results in 2004 to our current results,” says Arnon Gat, Exanet’s President & CEO. “We have designed our software technology to integrate quickly and easily with the fastest hardware on the market – and our clients and their network users are ultimate beneficiaries of this synergy.”
 
The results validate that ExaStore’s Clustered NAS systems provide predictably scalable performance for highly responsive, time-sensitive file sharing workflows and can be used to reduce the cost and complexity required to serve a growing number of applications and users. The ExaStore single file system, which provides speedy access for a large number of applications and users, can be used to speed workflows — saving time and money.
 
“Whether looking to serve multi-user applications or rich media and Web 2.0 aggregate-throughput-sensitive applications, Exanet’s clustered NAS is capable of delivering  the sort of cost-effective performance that is a prerequisite for rapidly-expanding, scale-out NAS environments,” concludes ESG’s Peters.