Ampere^® Altra^® Family Processors Deliver Disruptive Value for Large-Scale, High-Performance Storage Solution

LINBIT SDS - developed by LINBIT^® - delivers ultra-fast, resilient block storage for private and cloud infrastructure. Using LINBIT SDS with Ampere Altra Max processors enables you to use commodity hardware to create high-performance storage clusters. With native integration to Kubernetes, LINSTOR^® - one of the key software components of LINBIT SDS - makes building, running, and controlling block storage much simpler when providing persistent block storage for Kubernetes environments.

In this LINBIT SDS using Ampere^® Altra^® Max solution brief, Ampere, LINBIT and Samsung collaborate together to showcase the performance data after running tests with an Ampere Altra Max 3-node MicroK8s cluster.

Working with LINBIT SDS to manage storage demands, we can drive sustained peak loads into the drives. The results have been compared against the current LINBIT IOPS world record that ran and used a 12x Intel node cluster which had 2x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280L processors per Node.

Benchmarking on Ampere Altra Max Platform with LINBIT SDS

We ran a series of FIO tests using LINBIT SDS to benchmark the highest storage performance on 3-node MicroK8s cluster using 1x Altra Max processor per node. We used the Ampere Mt. Collins platform for reference, equipped with one Ampere Altra Max processor and eight Samsung PM1733a NVMe SSDs per node. The tests used the Ampere Altra Max M128-30 processor which supports a 3.0Ghz operating frequency.

• Ampere Altra Max - 128 Arm v8.2+ 64-bit CPU cores up to 3.0 GHz per Node

  • 3-node MicroK8s cluster

  • LINSTOR version: 1.16.0

  • DRBD^® version: 9.2.0

  • 8x Samsung PCIe® Gen-4 enabled PM 1733a - 30.72TB NVMe drives
    PM1733/PM1735 | Enterprise SSD | Specs & Features | Samsung Semiconductor Global

• 2x Intel® Xeon Platinum 8280L processors per Node

  • 12-node cluster

  • DRBD® version: 9.0.21-1

Ampere Altra Family Processors Deliver Disruptive Value for Large-Scale, High-Performance Storage Solution

• Higher core counts compared to competitors.

• Predictable and linear workload performance.

• Low power consumption - reduces carbon footprint.

• Kubernetes persistent storage.

• Block storage replication.

• Open Source LINBIT SDS

The Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max processors are complete system-on-chip (SOC) solutions built for cloud native applications. Ampere Altra supports up to 80 cores and Ampere Altra Max supports up to 128 aarch64 cores. In addition to incorporating a large number of high-performance cores, the innovative architecture delivers predictable high performance, linear scaling and high energy efficiency.

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