IBM SAN Volume Controller - Performance

Performance

Release 4.3 of the SVC held the Storage Performance Council (SPC) world record for SPC-1 performance benchmarks, returning nearly 275K (274,997.58) IOPS. There was no faster storage subsystem benchmarked by the SPC at that time (October 2008). The SPC-2 benchmark also returned a world leading measurement of over 7 GB/s throughput.

Release 5.1 achieved new records with a 4 node and 6 node cluster benchmark with DS8700 as backed storage device. SVC broke its own record of 274,997.58 SPC-1 IOPS in March 2010, with 315,043.59 for the 4 node cluster and 380,489.30 with the 6 node cluster, records that stood until October 2011.

Release 6.2 of the SVC held the Storage Performance Council (SPC) world record for SPC-1 performance benchmarks, returning over 500K (520,043.99) IOPS (I/Os per second) using 8 SVC nodes and Storwize V7000 as the backend disk. There was no faster storage subsystem benchmarked by the SPC at that time (January 2012). The full results and executive summaries can be reviewed at the SPC website referenced above.

Note: "Cache hit" or "bandwidth" performance numbers are usually much higher, e.g. "20 GBPS", but are relatively meaningless as they cannot be achieved in real-word scenarios.

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