The Adobe Premiere Pro tests were conducted with 12x virtual workstations. These workstations were g5.8xlarge EC2 instances. SmartConnect, an APEX File Storage feature, typically distributes client connections among storage nodes, but for this test, workstations were manually pointed at each node (2x workstations * 6x nodes).

Unique video content was created for each workstation. This content was ProRes422 HQ, UHD resolution at 30 frames per second. Each stream was approximately 100 MBps.

Even with these powerful virtual workstations, it is possible to overwhelm the workstation with simultaneous streams of video before overwhelming the APEX File Storage cluster. With that in mind, projects were constructed on each workstation with 8x simultaneous streams of video. With this number of streams, the individual workstations were not overwhelmed, and it was possible to tax the APEX File Storage cluster.

Figure 4.   Adobe Premiere Pro

Compressed Video playback from APEX File Storage for AWS

• Node type: m5dn.24x large
• Node count: 6 nodes
• EBS type: gp3, 1000MiB/s, 8000 IOPs
• Volumes per Node: 12
• Virtual Workstations: g5.8xlarge (Windows Datacenter 2019, SMB protocol)
• Playback application: Adobe Premiere Pro
• Compressed video type: ProRes422 HQ, UHD resolution, 30 frames per second (~100 MBps)
• Streams per workstation: 8
• Aggregate video streams: 108 streams of video
• Bandwidth per node: ~1.8 GBps
• Cluster aggregate throughput: ~10.7GBps

Figure 5.   OneFS statistics output of compressed video playback