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Sun FlashFire Performance

Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array

The Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array is the world's fastest and most power efficient flash array for accelerating database applications. These benchmark results demonstrate how Flash Technology will revolutionize I/O performance and energy efficiency in the enterprise datacenter.

The performance studies below show the improvements in throughput, scaling, response, and execution times of applications and systems using Sun Flash SSDs instead of conventional hard disk drives.

Application Performance with SSDs

Open Source Content Management System

Drupal 6.9 on CoolStack 1.3.1 faban 0.9
Running on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 Server running OpenSolaris/ZFS

Testing conducted by Sun Microsystems in February 2009 using pre-production SSD's
System configuration and testing conditions can be found on blogs.sun.com

Database

DB2 UDB 9.5 fp3 MDE-iGenOLTP v1.6
Running on Sun Fire X4450 Server running OpenSolaris/ZFS

Testing conducted by Sun Microsystems in February 2009 using pre-production SSD's
System configuration and testing conditions can be found on blogs.sun.com

MySQL 5.1.28 (64 Bit) Sysbench 0.4.8 Reads
Running on Sun Fire X4150 Server running RHEL 5.2/ext3

Testing conducted by Sun Microsystems in February 2009 using pre-production SSD's
System configuration and testing conditions can be found on blogs.sun.com

MySQL 5.1.28 (64 Bit) Sysbench 0.4.8 Reads
Running on Sun Fire X4150 Server running OpenSolaris/ZFS

Testing conducted by Sun Microsystems in February 2009 using pre-production SSD's
System configuration and testing conditions can be found on blogs.sun.com

MySQL 5.1.28 (64 Bit) Sysbench 0.4.8 Reads
Running on Sun Fire X4150 Server running OpenSolaris/UFS

Testing conducted by Sun Microsystems in October 2008 using pre-production SSD's
System configuration and testing conditions can be found on blogs.sun.com

Hardware Performance with SSDs

Synthetic Performance Tests

Random Reads over entire device, 8 threads, 4096 byte blocks vdbench 5.0
Running on Sun Fire X4150 Server running OpenSolaris, ESB SATA attach

Testing conducted by Sun Microsystems in February 2009 using pre-production SSD's
System configuration and testing conditions can be found on blogs.sun.com

Random Writes over entire device, 8 threads, 4096 byte blocks vdbench 5.0
Running on Sun Fire X4150 Server running OpenSolaris, ESB SATA attach

Testing conducted by Sun Microsystems in February 2009 using pre-production SSD's
System configuration and testing conditions can be found on blogs.sun.com