New SAP HANA World Record with 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Processors
Fri, 15 Dec 2023 19:13:37 -0000
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Dell just announced performance upgrades for PowerEdge, including the R660 and R760. In fact, according to the SAP Performance Benchmark, the PowerEdge R760 with the new 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor delivered outstanding SAP HANA performance in two categories, including a result with 2.6B initial records that sets a new World Record!
Check out the PowerEdge R760 Rack Server page for more information.
Author: Seamus Jones, Director, Server Technical Marketing Engineering
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On the record for Sapphire: World Record SAP HANA Performance with Dell PowerEdge R760 Servers
Wed, 17 May 2023 15:19:25 -0000
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SAP HANA is an in-memory database platform used to manage large amounts of data in real time for purposes such as point-of-sale data, real-time analytics for inventory management, supply-chain optimization, and customer behavior analysis. As the amount of data that must be processed grows, servers can be challenged to deliver information and analysis quickly enough to meet the increasingly demanding business requirements for fast data access. That is why SAP HANA users are always on the lookout for better-performing servers.
SAP publishes the results of standardized benchmark tests to assist customers in comparing the performance of different servers when running SAP HANA. Performance results for the Dell PowerEdge R760 server were recently published, and we are excited to share some highlights about how well this server stacks up against other servers.
Fifteen different data points are available for comparing the PowerEdge R760 server to other servers. The standard benchmarks measure three key performance data points for each of the five different database sizes on which the PowerEdge R760 server was tested.
The following table shows the rank of the PowerEdge R760 server for each of the 15 points of comparison among all the different servers tested using SAP’s benchmark version 3. The source of the data is the publicly available SAP Standard Application Benchmarks directory, accessed on 04-19-2023.
The PowerEdge R760 server outperformed all the other servers in 13 of the 15 benchmark points of comparison, and it ranked second in the remaining two.
The PowerEdge R760 server is a two-socket server built with the latest 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. It outperforms all other servers in SAP HANA benchmarking—even 4 and 8-socket servers—in every database size of up to 6.5 billion initial records. It provides the performance and versatility to address your most demanding applications, including SAP HANA, with massive databases and mission-critical requirements for real-time performance.
Look for an in-depth study from Prowess: Remarkable SAP Benchmark Performance Results for Dell PowerEdge R760 Servers (delltechnologies.com) about how the PowerEdge R760 server performed against top competitors on the SAP Standard Application Benchmarks.
Learn more about PowerEdge servers and Dell Technologies solutions for SAP.
About the Author:
Seamus Jones
Director, Server Technical Marketing
Seamus serves Dell as Director of Server Technical Marketing, seasoned with over 20 years of real-world experience in both North America and EMEA. His unique perspective comes from experience consulting customers on data center initiatives and server virtualization strategies.
Running COSBench Performance Test on PowerScale
Tue, 09 Jan 2024 14:21:02 -0000
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Starting with OneFS version 9.0, PowerScale enables data access through the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) application programing interface (API) natively. PowerScale implements the S3 API as a first-class protocol along with other NAS protocols on top of its distributed OneFS file system.
COSBench is a popular benchmarking tool to measure the performance of Cloud Object Storage services and supports the S3 protocol. In the following blog, we will walk through how to set up COSBench to test the S3 performance of an PowerScale cluster.
Step 1:Choose v0.4.2.c4 version
I suggest choosing the v0.4.2 release candidate 4 instead of the latest v0.4.2 release, especially if you receive an error message like the following and your COSBench service cannot be started:
# cat driver-boot.log Listening on port 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:18089 ... !SESSION 2020-06-03 10:12:59.683 ----------------------------------------------- eclipse.buildId=unknown java.version=1.7.0_261 java.vendor=Oracle Corporation BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, NL=en_US Command-line arguments: -console 18089 !ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2020-06-03 10:13:00.367 !MESSAGE Bundle plugins/cosbench-castor not found. !ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2020-06-03 10:13:00.368 !MESSAGE Bundle plugins/cosbench-log4j not found. !ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2020-06-03 10:13:00.368 !MESSAGE Bundle plugins/cosbench-log@6:start not found. !ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2020-06-03 10:13:00.369 !MESSAGE Bundle plugins/cosbench-config@6:start not found.
Step 2: Install Java
Both Java 1.7 and 1.8 work well with COSBench.
Step 3: Config ncat
Ncat is necessary for COSBench to work. Without it, you will receive the following error message:
[root]hopisdtmelabs14# bash ./start-driver.sh Launching osgi framwork ... Successfully launched osgi framework! Booting cosbench driver ... which: no nc in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin:/usr/local/tme/bin:/usr/local/tme/tme_portal/perf_web/bin) No appropriate tool found to detect cosbench driver status.
Use the following commands to install Ncat (example here is CentOS 7) and config it for COSBench:
yum -y install wget wget [https://nmap.org/dist/ncat-7.80-1.x86_64.rpm](https://nmap.org/dist/ncat-7.80-1.x86_64.rpm) yum localinstall ncat-7.80-1.x86_64.rpm cd /usr/bin ln -s ncat nc
Step 4: Unzip the COSBench files
After you download the 0.4.2.c4.zip, you can unzip it to a directory:
unzip 0.4.2.c4.zip
Grant all the bash script permission to be executed:
chmod +x /tmp/cosbench/0.4.2.c4/*.sh
Step 5: Start drivers and controller
On drivers and controller, find the cosbench-start.sh. Locate the java launching line, then add the following two options:
-Dcom.amazonaws.services.s3.disableGetObjectMD5Validation=true -Dcom.amazonaws.services.s3.disablePutObjectMD5Validation=true
The COSBench tool has two roles: controller and driver. You can use the following command to start the driver:
bash ./cosbench/start-driver.sh
Before we start the controller, we need to change the configuration to let the controller knows how many drivers it has and their addresses. This is done by filling in information in the controller's main configuration file. The configuration file is under ./conf, and the name of the file is controller.conf. Following is an example of the controller.conf:
[controller] drivers = 4 log_level = INFO log_file = log/system.log archive_dir = archive [driver1] name = driver1 url = [http://10.245.109.115:18088/driver](http://10.245.109.115:18088/driver) [driver2] name = driver2 url = [http://10.245.109.116:18088/driver](http://10.245.109.116:18088/driver) [driver3] name = driver3 url = [http://10.245.109.117:18088/driver](http://10.245.109.117:18088/driver) [driver4] name = driver4 url = [http://10.245.109.118:18088/driver](http://10.245.109.118:18088/driver)
Run the start-controller.sh to start the controller role:
bash ./start-controller.sh
Step 6: Prepare PowerScale
First, you need to prepare your PowerScale cluster for the S3 test. Make sure to record the secret key of the newly created user, s3. Run the following commands to prepare PowerScale for the S3 performance test:
isi services s3 enable isi s3 settings global modify --https-only=false isi auth users create s3 --enabled=true isi s3 keys create s3 mkdir -p -m 777 /ifs/s3/bkt1 chmod 777 /ifs/s3 isi s3 buckets create --owner=s3 --name=bkt1 --path=/ifs/s3/bkt1
Compose the workload XML file, and use it to specify the details of the test you want to run. Here is an example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <workload name="S3-F600-Test1" description="Isilon F600 with original configuration"> <storage type="s3" config="accesskey=1_s3_accid;secretkey=wEUqWNWkQGmgMos70NInqW26WpGf;endpoint=http://f600-2:9020/bkt1;path_style_access=true"/> <workflow> <workstage name="init-for-write-1k"> <work type="init" workers="1" config="cprefix=write-bucket-1k; containers=r(1,6)"/> </workstage> <workstage name="init-for-read-1k"> <work type="init" workers="1" config="cprefix=read-bucket-1k; containers=r(1,6)"/> </workstage> <workstage name="prepare-1k"> <work type="prepare" workers="1" config="cprefix=read-bucket-1k;containers=r(1,6);oprefix=1kb_;objects=r(1,1000);sizes=c(1)KB"/> </workstage> <workstage name="write-1kb"> <work name="main" type="normal" interval="5" division="container" chunked="false" rampup="0" rampdown="0" workers="6" totalOps="6000"> <operation type="write" config="cprefix=write-bucket-1k; containers=r(1,6); oprefix=1kb_; objects=r(1,1000); sizes=c(1)KB"/> </work> </workstage> <workstage name="read-1kb"> <work name="main" type="normal" interval="5" division="container" chunked="false" rampup="0" rampdown="0" workers="6" totalOps="6000"> <operation type="read" config="cprefix=read-bucket-1k; containers=r(1,6); oprefix=1kb_; objects=r(1,1000)"/> </work> </workstage> </workflow> </workload>
Step 7: Run the test
You can directly submit the XML in the COSBench WebUI, or you can use the following command line in the controller console to start the test:
bash ./cli.sh submit ./conf/my-s3-test.xml
You will see the test successfully finished, as shown in the following figure.
Figure 1. Completion screen after testing
Have fun testing!
Author: Yunlong Zhang