Vault report: Symantec's Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0 with kdb+ and VxFS

Unaudited STAC-M3 Benchmark of Kx Systems kdb+ 2.8 on IBM System x3850 X5 with Symantec's Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0 with kdb+ and VxFS.

6 July 2012 - New York

At the invitation of a STAC Benchmark Council Member, Symantec has submitted a benchmark report to the STAC Vault covering STAC-M3 tests of the kdb+ database when used with Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0 and the VxFS filesystem. The server in these tests was the same IBM System x3850 X5 that has been used as the reference for several other STAC-M3 reports. Details are as follows.

Specs: STAC-M3 (Antuco suite)

Type: Unaudited

Stack under test (SUT ID KDB120614):

• Kx Systems kdb+ 2.8
• IBM x3850 X5 Server with 512GB RAM
• 4 x 8-core Intel Xeon X7560 @ 2.27GHz
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1
• IBM XIV Gen3 Storage
• Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0
• VxFS file system

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