That may well be, but after what had appeared to be record-breaking results of the bungled 9980 benchmark, the 6320 may seem like a bit of a letdown.
The 6320, which delivered 44,805.74 IOPS, didn't actually turn in top results on any aspects of the test. At the high end, the 22-controller StorEdge 6320 system cluster failed to beat the eight-node 3PAR Inc. S800 configuration's 47,001 IOPS. And the 6320's cost of $15.56 per IOPS didn't come close to the $4.48 per IOPS delivered by Dell Computer Corp.'s (Nasdaq: DELL) low-end SCSI array.
Guzowski, however, insists that the 6320 offers the best overall solution among the systems in its class. Compared with HP's EVA, for example, the 6320 fares well on the SPC-1 test. The HP EVA delivered 20,096.97 IOPS and $23.88 per IOPS -- which means the Sun 6320 is more than twice as fast and offers 35 percent lower cost-per-IOPS.
While 3PAR's performance may be better, its system was nearly $10 more per IOPS than Sun, he points out. And while Dell's price/performance metric may seem intimidating, its performance of 7,650.4 IOPS certainly doesn't, says Guzowski. "It's hard to beat Dell [on price]," he says, "but look at their performance."
More important, Guzowski says, is that the fully loaded 22-controller 6320 system shows near linear scaleability, compared with its 12-controller configuration. At 25,340.29 IOPS, the latter system delivers roughly half the performance of the larger system, but its price per IOPS of $15.40 is almost identical.
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