SPC BENCHMARK 1 (SPC-1™) SPC Benchmark 1/Energy™ Extension (SPC-1/E™) Official Specification Revision 3.83.7 – Effective 28 October 201822 July 2018 “The First Industry Standard Storage Benchmark” Storage Performance Council (SPC) PO Box 3504 Redwood City, CA 94064-3504 Phone (650) 556-9384 www.storageperformance.org Copyright © 2001 - 2018 Storage Performance Council SPC Membership as of 241 July August 20184 Accelstor Ltd. MacroSAN Technologies Co. Ltd. Amazon, Inc. LSI Corporation Austin Automation Center NEC Corporation – Department of Veteran Affairs NetApp, Inc. DataDirect Networks Nimbus Data Systems, Inc. Datera, Inc. Oracle Corporation Cybernetics Pennsylvania State University Datacore Software, Inc. Pure Storage, Inc. Dell, Inc. Ruijie Networks Co. Ltd. Elastifile, Inc. QLogic Corporation ETRI Samsung Information Systems, America Dot Hill Systems Corp. Sanmina EMC Corporation SanDisk Corporation Foundation for Research and Technology Seagate Technology LLC – Institute of Computer Science Silicon Graphics International Fujitsu America, Inc. Skyera, Inc. FusionStack SolidFire, Inc. Gradient Systems Symantec Corporation The George Washington University SuperMicro Computer, Inc. Hewlett-Packard CompanyEnterprise Telecommunication Technology Hitachi Data Systems Association (TTA) Hongik University Toshiba America Information Systems, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Inc. IBM Corporation University of California, Santa Cruz Imation, Corp University of Patras Infortrend Technology, Inc. Violin Memory, Inc. Inspur Corporation Western Digital CorporationVexata Kaminario, Inc. Western Digital Corporation Korea Advanced Institute of Science and X-IO Technologies Technology Lenovo The SPC would also like to acknowledge the contributions of the members who helped to create the initial release of version 3 of the SPC-1 specification Austin Automation Center – Department of Veteran Affairs, DataDirect Networks, Datera, Inc., Dell, Inc., Dot Hill Systems Corp., EMC Corporation, Foundation for Research and Technology – Institute of Computer Science, Fujitsu America, Inc., The George Washington University, Hewlett-Packard Company, Hitachi Data Systems, Hongik University, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., IBM Corporation, Imation, Corp. Infortrend Technology, Inc., Kaminario, Inc., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, LSI Corporation, NEC Corporation. NetApp, Inc., Nimbus Data Systems, Inc., Oracle Corporation, Pennsylvania State University, QLogic Corporation, Samsung Information Systems, America. SanDisk Corporation, Seagate Technology LLC, Silicon Graphics International, Skyera, Inc.. SolidFire, Inc., Symantec Corporation, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Patras, Violin Memory, Inc.. Western Digital Corporation. X-IO Technologies SPC Benchmark-1 (SPC-1) Version 3.83.7 Page ii of 115 Official Specification Effective - 28 October 201822 July 2018 Document History Effective Date Version Description 9 October 2001 1.0 The first official release of the SPC Benchmark-1™ (SPC- 1) specification. Approved unanimously by the SPC membership. 2.0 Not released 21 July 2014 3.0 First major revision of the specification. 18 November 2015 3.1 Additional VERIFY test, improved alignment with post- processing tools 1 July 2016 3.2 Simplified capacity reporting New audit model New FDR content and format 15 January 2017 3.3 Minor editorial cleanup (removal of comments) Strike onsite/offsite audit method discussion Require protection against data loss from single point of failure Clarified terms and definitions Refined Steady State requirements Add pricing disclaimer to Executive Summary Require disclosure of space optimization techniques (e.g., compression or deduplication) 15 May 2017 3.4 Clause 4: Clarify BC/TSC relationship, remove term “system software”, and clarify role of hosts systems and workload generator instances. Clause 5: Reinforce the requirements that all workload generators must access of Logical Volumes and ASUs, and common storage devices. Clause 7: Add requirement to preserve all committed data Minor editorial cleanup 18 September 2017 3.5 Remove remaining references to system software, which is no longer a defined term. Require disclosure of data protection methodology 15 February 2018 3.6 Definition of Physical Free Space (2.5) Space optimization disclosure requirements (2.7, 5.3.3.2, 6.3.8.8, 10.7.8) Scaler shift in price-performance metrics (8.2.3 22 July 2018 3.7 Correction of test durations in PERSIST_2 (7.4.1) Allowance for additional disclosure items at auditor’s discretion (10.1) 27 October 3.8 Correct SER calculation (2.7.4, 10.7.8) Update membership roster SPC Benchmark-1 (SPC-1) Version 3.83.7 Page 2 of 115 Official Specification Effective - 28 October 201822 July 2018 SPC Benchmark-1 (SPC-1) Version 3.83.7 Page 3 of 115 Official Specification Effective - 28 October 201822 July 2018 Table of Contents SPC MEMBERSHIP AS OF 21 JULY 2014 ....................................................................................... II DOCUMENT HISTORY .................................................................................................................... 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................................................... 3 TABLE OF FIGURES ....................................................................................................................... 5 TABLE OF TABLES ....................................................................................................................... 68 CLAUSE 0 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 9 0.1 PREAMBLE ......................................................................................................................... 9 0.2 GENERAL GUIDELINES ..................................................................................................... 10 0.3 MEASUREMENT GUIDELINES ........................................................................................... 12 0.4 DISCLAIMER ..................................................................................................................... 12 CLAUSE 1 WORKLOAD ENVIRONMENT ...................................................................... 13 1.1 BUSINESS AND APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT .................................................................. 13 1.2 HIGH-LEVEL WORKLOAD MODEL .................................................................................... 13 CLAUSE 2 STORAGE CAPACITY & CONTENT ............................................................ 15 2.1 STORAGE CAPACITY HIERARCHY ..................................................................................... 15 2.2 STORAGE DEVICES & PHYSICAL STORAGE CAPACITY ...................................................... 15 2.3 LOGICAL VOLUMES & LOGICAL VOLUME ADDRESSABLE CAPACITY ................................ 15 2.4 APPLICATION STORAGE UNITS & (ASUS) CAPACITY ....................................................... 16 2.5 PHYSICAL FREE SPACE .................................................................................................... 18 2.6 ASU CONTENT MIX ......................................................................................................... 20 2.7 SPACE OPTIMIZATION ...................................................................................................... 21 2.8 DATA PROTECTION AND DATA ACCESS ............................................................................ 22 2.9 PHYSICAL CAPACITY UTILIZATION ................................................................................... 22 CLAUSE 3 WORKLOAD AND I/O OPERATION PROFILE ......................................... 23 3.1 OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................................ 23 3.2 APPLICATION STORAGE UNIT STREAM ............................................................................ 23 3.3 I/O STREAM ...................................................................................................................... 24 3.4 I/O COMMAND OR I/O REQUEST....................................................................................... 24 3.5 DEFINITIONS .................................................................................................................... 24 3.6 SPC-1 PARAMETER TYPES ............................................................................................... 25 3.7 SPC-1 WORKLOAD PARAMETERS ..................................................................................... 28 3.8 DETAILED WORKLOAD DESCRIPTION .............................................................................. 33 CLAUSE 4 BENCHMARK CONFIGURATION & TESTED STORAGE CONFIGURATION 37 4.1 DEFINITIONS .................................................................................................................... 37 4.2 COMPONENT AVAILABILITY AND SUPPORT ...................................................................... 37 4.3 BENCHMARK CONFIGURATION COMPONENTS ................................................................. 37 4.4 BENCHMARK CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES ...................................................................... 38 4.5 TESTED STORAGE CONFIGURATION COMPONENTS .......................................................... 39 4.6 TESTED STORAGE PRODUCT ...........................................................................................