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SPEC SFS® 2014 User’s Guide Version 1.0 SPEC SFS® 2014 User’s Guide Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) 7001 Heritage Village Plaza Suite 225 Gainesville, VA 20155 Phone: 1-703-579-8460 Fax: 1-703-579-8463 E-Mail: info@spec.org Copyright (c) 2014 by Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) All rights reserved SPEC and SPEC SFS are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation Table of Contents 1Quick Start Guide 3 1.1Prerequisites 3 1.2Installing the SPEC SFS 2014 Benchmark 4 1.3Editing the configuration file on the Prime client 5 1.4Installing the license key 7 1.5Configuring the storage solution for testing 8 1.6Starting the benchmark 8 1.7Monitoring the benchmark execution 8 1.8Examining the results after the benchmark execution has completed 9 2Introduction 10 2.1What is the SPEC SFS 2014 Benchmark 10 2.2SPEC SFS 2014 Benchmark Overview 11 Benchmark Manager 12 Database (DATABASE) Benchmark 15 Software Build (SWBUILD) Benchmark 17 Video Data Acquisition (VDA) Benchmark 21 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Benchmark 23 3 Installing and Configuring the Benchmark Environment 27 3.1Setting up the Solution Under Test (SUT) 27 3.2Setting up the Load Generators 28 Configuring SPEC SFS 2014 Windows Clients for Auto-Startup 28 3.3Configuring the Required Benchmark Parameters 29 Other Variables in the RC File 30 4Running the Benchmark and Interpreting Results 32 4.1SFS Benchmark Directory Structure 32 4.2Pre-Compiled SPEC SFS 2014 Benchmark Binaries 32 4.3Using the SFS Manager 33 Example of SUT Validation 33 Example of a Benchmark Run 33 5Submission and Review Process 36 5.1Creating Reports 36 Creating the Submission Package 37 5.2Submitting Results 37 6FAQ 37
6.1SPEC SFS 2014 Benchmark Press Release 37 6.2Tuning the Solution 41 6.3Submission of Results 42 7Trademarks 42 8Research corner 43 8.1Custom changes to SfsManager to add new workloads. 43 8.2Custom workload objects 43 Export current workload definitions 43 Workload object attribute definitions 43 Edit workload definitions 46 Import workload definitions 46 Appendix A – Building SFS Benchmark Components 47 8.3Building the SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark for UNIX 47 8.4Building the SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark for Windows 47 Update Visual Studio Libraries/Includes 47 Open the Visual Studio solution file 47 Build the individual project files 47 Debugging with Visual Studio 48 Appendix B – Setting up password-less SSH 49 9Appendix C “Tunes for the load generators” 50 9.1Linux tunes 50 9.2 Windows tunes 50 1Quick Start GuideThe SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark is used to measure the maximum sustainable throughput that a storage solution can deliver. The benchmark is protocol independent. It will run over any version of NFS or SMB/CIFS, clustered file systems, object oriented file systems, local file systems, or any other POSIX compatible file system. Because this tool runs at the application system call level, it is file system type agnostic. This provides strong portability across operating systems, and storage solutions. The SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark already runs on Linux, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows 2012, Mac OS X, BSD, Solaris, and AIX, and can be used to test any of the files-system types that these systems offer. The SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark consists of multiple workloads which represent real data processing file system environments. Each of these workloads may be run independently. A SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark publication may use any one of these workloads. The SfsManager allows the user to input parameters, run the benchmark, and review the results for all workloads. The benchmark runs on a group of workstations and measures the performance of the storage solution that is providing files to the application layer. Because the benchmark runs at the application system call level, all components of the storage solution impact the performance of the solution – this includes the load generators themselves as well as any physical or virtual hardware between the load generators and where the data ultimately rests on stable storage. Storage Server (NFS, SMB, FC, iSCSI, GPFS, Lustre …) Prime client Windows or UNIX Non-Prime client Windows or UNIX Non-Prime client Windows or UNIX Non-Prime client Windows or UNIX Interconnect/Network
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