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SR-71mach6 SpeedServer™ ion's all-SSD Server ion's SR-71mach6 SpeedServer™ is an all SSD server optimized to deliver over 2 million IOPS performing 8kB random reads. ion's SpeedServer is built on the latest Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with up to 1.5TB of the fastest memory along with 10Gb, 25Gb and 40Gb server NICs in a compact, cost-effective, and low-power system. Design your ultimate servers based on SSD RAID in the SR-71mach6 Configurator. Need more modest capacity, lower cost or smaller size? SR-70mach6 SpeedServer. No fabric can deliver latency as low as NVMe direct-attached storage (DAS). ion SR-71mach6 SpeedServer is based on Intel® Data Center SSDs with an Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate (UBER/NRE) of 1 sector per 1017 bits read. "All-Flash Array, or AFA"? All SSD, yes, but ion's SR-71mach6 SpeedServer™ can be designed with Intel® DC Flash SSDs and/or Intel® Optane™ SSDs based on 3D XPoint™ technology for even higher performance than Flash. ion's SR-71mach6 SpeedServer is a server, not just an array or storage subsystem. Software like Open-E JovianDSS or Microsoft® Windows® Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) can present the server as a storage resource; VMware® vSAN™ can provision the SR-71mach6 SpeedServer as hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). Or, for a speedy virtual machine host, Microsoft® Windows® Hyper-V® or Linux® deliver very flexible platforms. What would an All-SSD server do for the performance of your database? An All-SSD File Server? Or, an All-SSD Open-E JovianDSS storage server? Considering other products? ion's SR-71mach6 SpeedServer™ is a server running the operating system of your choice with no secret sauce. Sure, you can still deploy servers with spinning rust. But why? Pretend for a moment that the performance of an all-SSD server - very high IOPS, very low latency and amazing bandwidth - is of no value to your organization. What is the value of the higher reliability of SSDs? What tolerance does your organization have for downtime? For slow RAID rebuilds? SR-71mach6 SpeedServer is built entirely with SSD, using RAID, to produce a storage server of very high reliability. SpeedServer? StorageServer? SR-71mach6 is a server, SSD-optimized for the highest performance possible. Contact ion to take the SR-71mach6 SpeedServer for a testdrive!

CRN Test Center "2015 Products of the Year" SR-71mach6 Product Brief ion Server Blog

1. mach6 Windows IOmeter
2. mach6 Linux fio
mach4 iSCSI Target
3. mach3 FC Target
4. Benchmarks

ION's SR-71 SpeedServer reveals its performance in a number of parameters generated by benchmarks. The Web is full of benchmarks of all sorts. Before looking at benchmark results, one must try to find a benchmark, or a specific test in a benchmark suite, that has some correlation to the application environment in question. For storage benchmarks like these, that means an understanding of typical block sizes used in I/O, the proportion of read versus write, and the proportion of random versus sequential access, among other things. Whether the application is able to queue I/O requests - submit multiple requests before waiting for results - is also a key factor. A result that talks about how many small, sequential reads a system can deliver is of no value at all if the application in question will be typically performing bigger I/Os in a random write/read manner.

Some definitions may help with understanding of the data on the Performance tabs:

• Block Size: The size of each I/O (read or write) in the test, usually in units of kB (really kiB = 1024 bytes).
• Sequential or Streaming: I/Os are performed in the order in which data is organized on the storage. Like big files written or read from beginning to end.
• Random: I/Os are not done in order but spread across the entire file or entire volume, randomly.
• Outstanding I/Os or Queue Depth or Q: The number of read or write requests issued to storage before waiting for a result.
• IOPS: Input/Ouput Operations per Second, the number of reads and/or writes performed each second using the specified I/O pattern of block size, randomness and queueing.
• MBps: MegaBytes per Second, the bandwidth being delivered by the specified I/O pattern. Typically , this is really MiBps, units of 1024x1024=1,048,576 Bytes per second.
• Latency: How long, on average, is the delay between issuing a read or write request and receiving the response. This is typically expressed in milliseconds, ms. On spinning disk based systems, the latency is determined by the mechanical activities of moving the actuator and waiting for the desired block to spin around to the head. In the best case, each of those on a fast disk is about 2ms. The results reported here include many tests where the average latency was well below 1ms.

The tests reported include results of testing within the SR-71 SpeedServer, running the benchmark on the server, as well as storage network tests. The tabs on the left are for performance using internal storage; towards the right are iSCSI and Fibre Channel tabs covering the ability of the SR-71 SpeedServer to deliver data over a network.

Most of these performance tabs include details about the system under test and have links to the full, raw test results for deeper analysis of what was actually tested and how the system behaved. Without this kind of information, there is no way to know whether the result reported has any relation to the problem that needs to be solved. That information is presented to provide context for the numbers. There are many results reported elsewhere that lack that kind of context.