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Microsoft SQL Server Performance, Consistency at Peak, and The Art of Possible with Datrium

Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:17:11 +0000

HammerDB is a free database load testing and benchmarking tool for databases. For this HammerDB test, I have chosen the TPC-C schema to build a roughly 500 GB database (to start with) of 200 warehouses and used 100 concurrent users to drive the database transactions with no think-time enabled.

Here is why I copied the StorageReview Performance Benchmark for MySQL on Datrium... but there was a Gotcha!

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:47:38 +0000

If you want to benchmark a storage subsystem, it's best to use pre-existing benchmarks to be able to compare results. Instead of reinventing the wheel, I just copied the configuration and tests performed by our good friends at StorageReview. (https://www.storagereview.com/node/3598)

What I have learned from 100 Oracle Benchmarks on Datrium

Sun, 07 Jul 2019 14:30:57 +0000

I have recently completed a series of benchmarks with Oracle on Datrium, and as it comes with no surprise Oracle is a perfect fit for Datrium's host flash acceleration and integrated data protection. I have documented tests, findings and recommendations in a document published here, but below you will find a few highlights and lessons learned.

EXT4 vs. XFS vs. ASM vs. ASM + OEL, which one performs better? Taking it to the next level.

Sun, 17 Feb 2019 16:14:04 +0000

My previous article on, EXT4 vs XFS for Oracle, generated some commentary both here in my blog and on Reddit. For this reason, I took the time to extend the same benchmark to Oracle ASM (Automatic Storage Management) and also to Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL).

EXT4 vs XFS for Oracle, which one performs better?

Sun, 10 Feb 2019 21:40:52 +0000

[UPDATE] Since publishing this post I received requests to benchmark ASM and Oracle Enterprise Linux. An updated post for this article EXT4 vs XFS vs ASM vs ASM + OEL, which one performs better? Taking it to the next level.

Oracle + Datrium Encryption Benchmark with Near-Zero Performance Impact

Tue, 05 Feb 2019 07:39:32 +0000

This is my 4th article on the topic of Datrium + Oracle, and for this article, I focus on Datrium's ability to provide native FIPS 140-2 compliant software-based end-to-end encryption with near-zero performance impact for Oracle and Busines Critical Applications workloads.

Oracle + Datrium provide Enterprise Performance and Granular Protection with ZERO Performance Impact for Millions of Snapshots

Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:22:19 +0000

Providing continuity to my Oracle blog series I want to demonstrate how Datrium handles data protection and group policies during high-performance and sustained workloads. For starters, Datrium supports up to 1.2 Million native snapshots, and up to 2,000 snapshots per VM without disrupting running applications.

Scaling Oracle SLOB to 7M IOPS and 55.4GB/s Throughput with Datrium – and the Latency FAKE NEWS!

Mon, 14 Jan 2019 08:19:39 +0000

My previous Oracle article (here) was focused on single-instance performance, and at the end of the post I alluded to the scale-up potential. How many Oracle instances can you run on the same platform?

Datrium AllFlash + Oracle measured with SLOB

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 08:20:19 +0000

Datrium is the perfect platform for running Oracle databases. Solutions can start with a single server and a single datanode and scale up to 10 data nodes and 128 servers as part of a single management domain, and single namespace.

Revisiting PostgreSQL Performance with Datrium v4.1 - Better Performance with Lower Latency

Mon, 17 Dec 2018 07:53:06 +0000

"Read this article to the end, to see the Aha Moment of Datrium performance."

I have broadly written about PostgreSQL performance with Datrium, and over time I also covered default installs, optimized configs and even running PostgreSQL bare-metal with the Datirum.

Datrium Scalability - Up to 138 Nodes

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 13:20:05 +0000

When you are a unique player your technology can be misunderstood and competitors can misguide customers. I recently came across a piece of competitive collateral from a HCI vendor with a slew of incorrect information about Datrium.

The first topic I covered was "Unique and Original Datrium Data Locality for Customers, Partners, and Competitors", but now I would like to talk about Datrium scalability.

PostgreSQL & Datrium - from Virtualization to Bare-Metal with Data Services

Wed, 25 Apr 2018 17:42:25 +0000

While in my experience virtualization has been immensely pervasive for the past 15 years we still see applications that are habitually running on bare-metal Linux hosts due to the added performance, hardware lock-in or sometimes merely because of traditions.

On the other hand, the movement from SAN architectures to HCI is undoubtedly displacing complexity, but for such bare-metal applications, it offers no added benefit because HCI is traditionally built on top of hypervisors and virtualization technologies.

Is there an Optimization Limit for Applications and Databases? PostgreSQL and Datrium Demonstration.

Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:00:44 +0000

No matter how much you tune and optimize your application workload, there's always something else that can take the performance a little further, besides of course replacing the physical hardware with something a little more modern and faster.

I wrote an article entitled "PostgreSQL Benchmark on Datrium – 4.3 Million TPS with 1 GB RAM – and some Frustration!" a little while ago, and then I published another short post on 'Software-Defined-Storage Architectures, a gift that keeps on giving! PostgreSQL and Datrium.' demonstrating performance improvements driven by software-defined-storage stacks while leveraging microprocessor advancements.

Software-Defined-Storage Architectures, a gift that keeps on giving! PostgreSQL and Datrium.

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:07:47 +0000

Software-Defined-Storage architectures are pervasive in the datacenter, and they fully leverage the improvements in server-side microprocessor architectures. As with most software-defined-storage solutions, Datrium DVX gains performance not only with faster servers and processors, but also with every new software release.

PostgreSQL Benchmark on Datrium - 4.3 Million TPS with 1 GB RAM - and some Frustration!

Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:52:09 +0000

Cutting to the chase, I want to share some benchmark numbers I have been able to run in our Solutions lab and demonstrate how Datrium DVX compares to other published figures. While some may claim that benchmarks can be gamed (and they can), I tried to stick to a simple formula that can be easily repeated by anyone on any platform for comparable results. Furthermore, the more hardware you throw at the problem, the more performance you will get, but generally if you fix as many variables as possible, the results should be within a reasonable margin.

Zero RTO Application Restores - Myth or Reality?

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:22:31 +0000

Most of my life I have been closer to applications and primary storage, and later on when managing technology teams I always counted on well-trained data protection professionals to handle such critical role in organizations. One thing was clear to me - backup is equivalent to insurance. It is a tool that is there for when sh*t hit the fan. {pardon the expression}

New Breed of Convergence Sets World Records w/ David Davis

Sun, 29 Oct 2017 08:17:14 +0000

David Davis (@davidmdavis) and James Green (@jdgreen) from ActualTech Media were at Datrium HQ last week to talk about Open Convergence and the mind-blowing World Record for storage performance benchmark achieved by Datrium DVX in partnership with Dell, IOmark, and the Evaluator Group. Read more in Datrium Audited as the Highest IOmark Benchmark Result in History – Mind-Blowing 10X!

Datrium Audited as the Highest IOmark Benchmark Result in History - Mind-Blowing 10X!

Tue, 24 Oct 2017 07:00:35 +0000

"Datrium is the most scalable, fastest and lower latency storage solution (converged or not) on the market, beyond doubt."

We already knew that our solution is really competent, but there's nothing like a 3rd party audited benchmark to convince even the most suspicious greybeards. The results are mind-blowing!

Real-World Microsoft SQL Server Performance on Datrium DVX

Fri, 25 Aug 2017 10:20:43 +0000

We have recently released a white paper on Microsoft SQL Server, and the purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the “real-world” performance of a virtualized Microsoft SQL Server running on the Datrium platform; and I emphasize “real-world” because absolute performance more often than not, is not the only design consideration.

My Presentation on Real-World MSSQL Server Performance Benchmark

Wed, 16 Aug 2017 09:28:27 +0000

Howdy!

It's been an exciting week at Datrium with the release of our new payload (here) that delivers incredible performance numbers for virtualized and bare-metal applications. Yesterday I also gave a presentation on Real-World MS SQL Server Performance Benchmark running on Datrium DVX - my bit start at 27:25s. Enjoy!

Looking for the silver bullet that’s not there? My (and Datrium) response to the Data Locality debacle

Tue, 25 Jul 2017 03:26:24 +0000

Recently there’s been an exchange between industry luminaries on data reduction, data locality, and data protection. Howard Marks wrote a thoughtful piece <here> that expands on VSAN’s approach to data locality. Josh Odgers, the brilliant blogger now at Nutanix, responded with some notes <here> that in my opinion struggled to close the issue. They both seem to be reaching for a silver bullet that’s not there.

Linked Clones with Shadow Cloning VS. Full Clones w/ Native VAAI Cloning?

Mon, 02 Mar 2015 22:42:26 +0000

A recent discussion with one of the engineers prompted me to write this article. It’s no secret that one of the most important Nutanix features for VDI deployments is Shadow Clones.

Shadow Clones drastically improves VDI performance and end-user experience. I discussed Shadow Clones in the past. However, before explaining how Shadow Clones work let’s recap how VMware View Linked Clones and XenDesktop MCS work.

A picture is worth a thousand words, a video even more... (EVO:RAIL vs Nutanix)

Tue, 20 Jan 2015 11:28:51 +0000

A Nutanix prospect published this INCREDIBLE video with a bake-off (POC) they did between EVO:RAIL and Nutanix. Now, before people go and say it's not a apple to apples comparison I gotta say that although the hardware model between the two solutions might be different, the price list for the solutions is only approximately $5K more towards Nutanix, yet providing much better performance and much lower $/IO and $/GB due to Nutanix compression, de-duplication and VAAI. Reach out to one of the many Nutanix partners to run your own tests and comparisons.

Who runs Horizon 6 more efficiently? Nutanix or VSAN?

Tue, 02 Sep 2014 08:24:20 +0000

One great aspect of working for a cutting edge storage vendor such as Nutanix is that for all of the competitive sniping in the marketplace, the technology really does speak for itself.

A question that was asked of me recently by an individual new to SDS had me thinking about the traits that make solutions different from each other. Naturally, different solutions have distinctive architecture, features and capabilities, but occasionally they are not enough make a clear distinction.

Data Locality matters... a LOT! See this video demo.

Thu, 15 May 2014 14:38:30 +0000

Nutanix utilizes a shared-nothing distributed architecture and it ensures data is always replicated across Flash, HDD, Nodes and Blocks for high availability. A VM may access data from anywhere on a Nutanix cluster, but Nutanix controllers (CVM) will always ensure that overtime active data blocks that belong to a VM are present in the host where the VM is currently running. This process is transparent and occurs in the background using free CPU cycles.

Is Hyper-Converged faster than SAN?

Sun, 11 May 2014 17:15:51 +0000

This is one of those topics that often create heated debates between defendants from both sides of the industry. I work for Nutanix, a hyper-converged platform; therefore you might say I am biased. That’s fine, but I tell you that I will try to stick to the value of each platform and not only to the questions about performance. There’s far more to a platform than performance, but I will also not shy away from answering the question with a simple and straightforward answer.

Nutanix 3450 up to half million IOPs with single block deployment

Sun, 06 Apr 2014 13:08:38 +0000

One of Nutanix partners (DH Technologies) created this video below demonstrating a Nutanix block with 4 nodes pushing almost half-million IOPS (483,492 IOps). This is over 120,000 IOps per node, potentially achieving astonishing 3.8 million IOPs in a 32 node cluster without the help of expensive PCIe flash devices like FusionIO or LSI Nytro WarpDrive, and potentially getting up to tens of millions of IOPs since there's no theoretical limits for the Nutanix cluster size.

Nutanix Shadow Clones Explained and Benchmarked

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 03:20:31 +0000

One of the Nutanix features that drastically improve VDI performance and end-user experience is Shadow Clones. I briefly discussed Shadow Clones in the past. However, before explaining how Shadow Clones work let’s recap how VMware View Linked Clones work (the same is valid for XenDesktop MCS).

Cloning and Powering VMs on Nutanix with VAAI [Video]

Tue, 11 Feb 2014 20:35:25 +0000

I was given a Nutanix cluster to learn about the product, features and interoperability. During the installation and configuration process I recorded videos to demonstrate how simple and easy Nutanix really is.

While I believe Nutanix biggest features are the web-scale properties (I will discuss more later), such as true linear scale-out performance and shared nothing approach, I know that many people are also looking for features such as De-duplication, Compression, Native Disaster Recovery and Replication etc. Nutanix packs it all!

View Storage Accelerator Performance Benchmark

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:07:23 +0000

EMC has recently conducted some VMware View 5.1 validation tests with their VSPEX pre-validated architecture. As part of the validation tests EMC also captured some awesome performance data where we can clearly see the benefits delivered by the new View Storage Accelerator feature.