SPEC SFS 2008 Benchmark Goes Live

Today SPEC released its newest benchmark for testing NFSv3 server performance. What is especially new is that this benchmark also tests CIFS server performance. This is good news because the for a long time there has not been a standard CIFS benchmark.

The workloads for NFS have been updated from previous versions of SFS, based on real customer data gathered by various vendors including NetApp. Similarly, the CIFS workloads are based on real customer data.

Note that the reported ops/sec and response times between NFS and CIFS are not comparable, nor are the ops/sec and latency between SFS 2008 and previous versions of SFS comparable.

There are already results posted.

I lurk on the SPEC SFS subcommittee's mailing list and I'm aware of the hard work each member and member company did to achieve this. Congratulations to all of them, and to the subcommittee's chair, NetApp's Don Capps, and the benchmark's release manager, NetApp's Darren Sawyer.