Evaluator Group and IOmark Benchmarking Datrium DVX System

IOmark and Evaluator Group, Inc. announce record IOmark-VM-HC benchmark results for Datrium, Inc.‘s DVX system.

A single Datrium system was verified to support 8,000 IOmark-VM VMs running the IOmark hyper-converged workload. The IOmark-VM-HC benchmark certifies that hyperconverged systems are able to support the reported virtual server workload while meeting the benchmark criteria for response time.

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“The scale and performance of Datrium’s DVX cluster surpassed all configurations tested to date for VM workloads,” said Russ Fellows, senior partner, Evaluator Group. “The IOmark-VM-HC results achieved by the DVX establish Datrium’s leading performance for virtual server workloads, far surpassing previous systems all while the system had deduplication, compression, erasure coding and encryption enabled.“

A DVX system comprised of data nodes and servers (compute nodes) with DVX software achieved passing results for 8,000 IOmark-VM instances at a price of $667.01/VM.

Key features noted during testing include:

• A cluster consisting of ten DVX data nodes along with 60 servers running DVX software was certified to support 8,000 IOmark-VM-HC virtual server workloads

• The tested configuration utilized both data deduplication, compression, and erasure coding while also having encryption enabled

• More than 96% of response times were less than 5ms, with an average read response time of 0.76ms.

“The record-setting VM performance announced is awesome, but is actually not the point. Speed is just a scaffold for simplicity at a cloud data center level,” said Craig Nunes, VP, marketing, Datrium. “The world-class performance of Datrium DVX means all data services are always-on-eliminating the need to plan, choose and configure appropriate efficiency, performance and resilience tradeoffs. This is the easy-button for cloud data center infrastructure, and is what sets open convergence apart from hyperconverged alternatives.”

Datrium converges virtualized hosts, primary storage, integrated backup and archive to cloud-offering an integrated converged infrastructure system for virtualized enterprises and service providers. Its scale-out ‘open converged’ architecture can mix workloads across high-performance, flash-enabled compute nodes connected to either flash-based or disk-based data nodes. Datrium DVX effectively supports low-latency tier 1 applications and related cloud data management functions within a single system.

The IOmark benchmark results are audited to ensure uniform testing and reporting of results, enabling IT users to compare products using metrics that matter: price, capacity and application performance. The application mix for IOmark-VM includes databases, webservers and Exchange mail servers, plus hypervisor operations consisting of a VM clone, deploy, boot, software upgrade, and storage migration between storage volumes.

IOmark-VM benchmark requires following to achieve passing results:

• Total test time is one hour, with a measured interval of 30 minutes

• 70% of response times for I/Os must not exceed 20ms

• Minimum number of storage vMotion and VM clone operations must also be completed during a one hour test

Evaluator Group is the developer of IOmark, a software test platform that may be licensed to use for validation and POC testing. Vendors, performance testing labs and channel partners may purchase the tool to use in their lab and for publishing audited results. IT end users may purchase a discounted license. An evaluation license may be obtained for 30 days for internal trials.

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