LEFTHAND-P4500 versus 3PAR-8200



LEFTHAND-P4500: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2640 0 @ 2.50GHz (24 Cores), Motherboard: HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5/Core, Memory: 8 x 16384 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 300GB LEFTHAND-P4500 + 322GB iSCSIDisk, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Network: Intel 82599 10 Gigabit Dual Port Backplane Connection

	OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-19-generic (x86_64), Desktop: LXDE 0.8.1, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.2, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 11.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768

3PAR-8200: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 @ 2.60GHz (40 Cores), Motherboard: HP ProLiant BL460c Gen9, Memory: 7.875 x 32768 MB 2133MHz, Disk: 54GB 3PAR-8200 + 4 x 1100GB VV + 8 x 644GB VV + 8 x 107GB VV + 8 x 537GB VV + 4 x 322GB VV + 246GB 3PAR-8200 + LUN 00 Media 0

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Random Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 64KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
LEFTHAND-P4500 . 6.88   |==
3PAR-8200 ...... 242.56 |======================================================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Random Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 64KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
LEFTHAND-P4500 . 16.47  |=====
3PAR-8200 ...... 172.52 |======================================================


BlogBench 1.0
Test: Read
Final Score > Higher Is Better
LEFTHAND-P4500 . 1469660 |=====================================================
3PAR-8200 ...... 985709  |====================================


BlogBench 1.0
Test: Write
Final Score > Higher Is Better
LEFTHAND-P4500 . 2569  |==========
3PAR-8200 ...... 14039 |=======================================================


Dbench 4.0
Client Count: 6
MB/s > Higher Is Better
LEFTHAND-P4500 . 378.16  |==============
3PAR-8200 ...... 1410.77 |=====================================================


hdparm Timed Disk Reads
Disk To Read: /dev/sdb
MB/s > Higher Is Better
LEFTHAND-P4500 . 30.97 |===========================
3PAR-8200 ...... 63.20 |=======================================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
LEFTHAND-P4500 . 7569.39 |=====================================================
3PAR-8200 ...... 5039.52 |===================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
LEFTHAND-P4500 . 42.26  |====
3PAR-8200 ...... 611.95 |======================================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 32
MB/s > Higher Is Better
LEFTHAND-P4500 . 27961.17 |====================================================
3PAR-8200 ...... 25790.31 |================================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 32
MB/s > Higher Is Better
LEFTHAND-P4500 . 17.82  |========
3PAR-8200 ...... 119.71 |======================================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 32
MB/s > Higher Is Better
LEFTHAND-P4500 . 15360.62 |====================================================
3PAR-8200 ...... 13346.16 |=============================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 32
MB/s > Higher Is Better
LEFTHAND-P4500 . 20.45  |======
3PAR-8200 ...... 175.57 |======================================================