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<p class="MsoNormal">We replaced two FS900 flash units with 8x8Gb FC on each unit with commodity Dell sever with two ESS3200 using 2x100GbE on each unit/controller and our metadata is 40% faster with 1.8 billion files in the file system. So it pays to upgrade
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> gpfsug-discuss <gpfsug-discuss-bounces@gpfsug.org>
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<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Connecting IBM ESS 3200 to 10 Gb Ethernet<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many network storage engineers simply don't understand bandwidth (or the importance of port groups)... With an ESS you are talking GIGA*BYTES* per second and storage and networking architects simply see 10Gbe and assume that's good enough.
A 10Gbe connection can do about 1.4GB/s.. 100Gbe can do 12.5GB/s. To the wrong engineer you can explain this until you're blue in the face and they won't get it. You need to divide Gbe by 8 to get about the GB/s throughput. Explain to them that a USB-C
interface is capable of 10Gbe... So you're throttling millions of dollars in technology to the speed of a consumer grade USB-C interface. When infact an ESS can drive at least 2x100Gbe to saturation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I don't have an ESS but a classic SAN array and Spectrum Scale and I can saturate 32*8Gbe fiber connections.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Jun 5, 2023, 8:56 AM Andrew Beattie <<a href="mailto:abeattie@au1.ibm.com">abeattie@au1.ibm.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Prasad,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You would be better off looking at the following: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nvidia.com/en-au/networking/ethernet/cable-accessories/__;!!PfbeBCCAmug!jmAmqSobWPpE5V4hUEfLxp6yNbcYtZu-9x66128owzvoc1eWOR5z8L4aNjBhpLRuFKNjMzpQ-ggSmAeUZQ$" target="_blank">https://www.nvidia.com/en-au/networking/ethernet/cable-accessories/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This will allow you to adapt from the QSFP+ 100GB transceiver down to a SFP+ 10GB transceiver and then use standard OM4 cable and Cisco 10GB transceivers at the other end.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">However I will also comment that using 10GB network for an all flash ESS is a bit like buying an F1 racing car and never taking it out of first gear. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You would honestly be better investing in a single 100GB switch to at least build the ESS cluster at 100Gbit and getting the full potential bandwidth from your investment in NVMe <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Otherwise buy a FS5200 + 2 x86 servers and some scale licensing, because you are down rating the ESS3200 to less than 25% of its potential performance <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> gpfsug-discuss <<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@gpfsug.org" target="_blank">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@gpfsug.org</a>> on behalf of Prasad Surampudi <<a href="mailto:prasad.surampudi@theatsgroup.com" target="_blank">prasad.surampudi@theatsgroup.com</a>><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] Connecting IBM ESS 3200 to 10 Gb Ethernet</span>
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