SPC BENCHMARK 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY NETAPP INC

SPC BENCHMARK 1 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 

NETAPP, INC. 

NETAPP® AFF A700S 

SPC-1 V1.14 

SUBMITTED FOR REVIEW: JANUARY 30, 2017 

SUBMISSION IDENTIFIER: A02002

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 

Test Sponsor and Contact Information 

Test Sponsor 

Primary Contact 

Test Sponsor 

Alternate Contact 

Auditor 

Test Sponsor and Contact Information 

NetApp, Inc. http://www.netapp.com/ 

Jim Laing jim.laing@netapp.com 

7301 Kit Creek Road 

Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 

Phone: (919) 476-4648 

FAX: (919) 476-4272 

NetApp, Inc. http://www.netapp.com/ 

Scott Lane scott.lane@netapp.com 

7301 Kit Creek Road 

Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 

Phone: (919) 476-5484 

FAX: (919) 476-4272 

InfoSizing – http://www.sizing.com/ 

Doug Johnson – doug@sizing.com 

63 Lourdes Drive 

Leominster, MA 01453 

Phone: (978) 343-6562 

Revision Information and Key Dates 

Revision Information and Key Dates 

SPC-1 Specification revision number V1.14 

SPC-1 Workload Generator revision number 

V2.5.2 

Date Results were first used publicly January 30, 2017 

Date the FDR was submitted to the SPC January 30, 2017 

Date the Priced Storage Configuration is available 

for shipment to customers 

February 28, 2017 

Date the Tested Storage Configuration completed 

audit certification January 16, 2017 

Tested Storage Product (TSP) Description 

Designed specifically for flash, NetApp® All Flash FAS (AFF) A700s systems deliver 

industry-leading performance, capacity density, scalability, security and network 

connectivity in a dense form factor. At up to millions of IOPS and sub-millisecond latency 

per cluster, it is the fastest all-flash array built on a unified scale-out architecture. 

Therefore, the A700s is an ideal solution for business-critical workloads. The AFF A700s 

system allows customers to complete twice the work at half the latency as compared with 

the previous generation of AFF systems. 

SPC BENCHMARK 1 V1.14 Executive Summary Submission Identifier: A02002 

NetApp, Inc. Submitted for Review: January 30, 2017 

NetApp® AFF A700s


Summary of Results 

SPC-1 Reported Data 

Tested Storage Product (TSP) Name: NetApp® AFF A700s 

Metric 

Reported Result 

SPC-1 IOPS 2,400,059.26 

SPC-1 Price-Performance 

Total ASU Capacity 

Data Protection Level 

$0.62/SPC-1 IOPS 

77,504.698 GB 

Protected 2 (RAID DP®) 

Total Price $1,493,103.71 

Currency Used 

Target Country for availability, sales and support 

U.S. Dollars 

USA 

SPC-1 IOPS represents the maximum I/O Request Throughput at the 100% load point. 

SPC-1 Price-Performance is the ratio of Total Price to SPC-1 IOPS. 

Total ASU (Application Storage Unit) Capacity represents the total storage capacity 

available to be read and written in the course of executing the SPC-1 benchmark. 

A Data Protection Level of Protected 2 is provided by using NetApp RAID DP® 

technology, which provides double-parity RAID protection against data loss with 

negligible performance overhead and no cost penalty compared to single-parity RAID. 

Protected 2: The single point of failure of any component in the configuration will not 

result in permanent loss of access to or integrity of the SPC-1 Data Repository. 

Total Price includes the cost of the Priced Storage Configuration plus three years of 

hardware maintenance and software support. 

Currency Used is the formal name for the currency used in calculating the Total Price 

and SPC-1 Price-Performance. That currency may be the local currency of the 

Target Country or the currency of a difference country (non-local currency). 

The Target Country is the country in which the Priced Storage Configuration is 

available for sale and in which the required hardware maintenance and software support 

is provided either directly from the Test Sponsor or indirectly from a third-party supplier. 

Storage Capacities, Relationships, and Utilization 

The following four charts and the following table document the various storage capacities, 

used in this benchmark, their relationships, and the storage utilization values that must 

be reported. For the sake of readability, the capacity values in these charts are reported 

as integer values rather than the decimal values listed elsewhere in this document. 



NetApp® AFF A700s


Unused Physical 

Capacity: 

3 GB (0.00%) 

Physical Storage Capacity: 138,268 GB 

Configured Storage 

Capacity: 

138,227 GB (99.97%) 

Total RAID Data 

Capacity: 

116,270 GB (84.09%) 

Global Storage 

Overhead: 

38 GB (0.03%) 

Spares: 

8,565 GB (6.19%) 

Overhead: 

4 GB (0.00%) 

Data Protection 

Capacity: 

13,389 GB (9.68%) 

Configured Storage Capacity: 138,227 GB 

Overhead: 

10,139 GB (7.34%) 

Configured Storage 

Capacity Available: 

119,523 GB (86.47%) 

Addressable Storage 

Capacity: 

77,505 GB (56.07%) 

Spares: 

8,565 GB (6.20%) 

Unused Configured 

Storage Capacity: 

28,630 GB (20.71%) 

Data Protection 

Capacity Used: 

13,389 GB (9.69%) 



NetApp® AFF A700s


Unused Addressable 

Capacity: 

0 GB (0.00%) 

Addressable Storage Capacity: 77,505 GB 

ASU-1 Capacity: 

34,876 GB (45.00%) 

Total ASU Capacity: 

77,505 GB (100.00%) 


34,879 GB (45.00%) 


7,750 GB (10.00%) 

Physical Storage Capacity: 138,268 GB 

Unused Physical Capacity: 

3 GB (0.01%) 

Physical Storage 

Capacity Used: 

109,635 GB (79.29%) 

Total Unused Storage 

Capacity: 

28,633 GB (20.71%) 

Unused 

Configured 

Capacity: 

28,630 GB 

(99.99%) 

Unused Addressable 

Capacity: 

0 GB (0.00%) 



NetApp® AFF A700s


SPC-1 Storage Capacity Utilization 

Application Utilization 56.05% 

Protected Application Utilization 65.74% 

Unused Storage Ratio 20.71% 

Application Utilization: Total ASU Capacity (77,504.698 GB) divided by Physical 

Storage Capacity (138,268.335 GB). 

Protected Application Utilization: (Total ASU Capacity (77,504.698 GB) plus total 

Data Protection Capacity (13,388.822 GB) minus unused Data Protection Capacity (0.000 

GB)) divided by Physical Storage Capacity (138,268.335 GB). 

Unused Storage Ratio: Total Unused Capacity (28,633.083 GB) divided by Physical 

Storage Capacity (138,268.335 GB) and may not exceed 45%. 

Response Time – Throughput Curve 

The Response Time-Throughput Curve illustrates the Average Response Time 

(milliseconds) and I/O Request Throughput at 100%, 95%, 90%, 80%, 50%, and 10% of the 

workload level used to generate the SPC-1 IOPS metric. 

The Average Response Time measured at any of the above load points cannot exceed 30 

milliseconds or the benchmark measurement is invalid. 



NetApp® AFF A700s


Response Time – Throughput Data 

10% Load 50% Load 80% Load 90% Load 95% Load 100% Load 

I/O Request Throughput 240,006.77 1,200,037.20 1,919,996.60 2,160,087.79 2,280,031.04 2,400,059.26 

Avg. Response Time (ms) 

All ASUs 0.25 0.43 0.44 0.53 0.58 0.69 

ASU-1 0.24 0.41 0.43 0.52 0.58 0.69 

ASU-2 0.26 0.41 0.42 0.49 0.53 0.61 

ASU-3 0.29 0.49 0.48 0.57 0.62 0.74 

Reads 0.21 0.36 0.38 0.46 0.50 0.60 

Writes 0.28 0.48 0.49 0.58 0.63 0.76 



NetApp® AFF A700s


Priced Storage Configuration Pricing 

Part Number Description Source 

US List Price 

per Unit Discount Price per Unit Quantity Total Price 

AFF A700s HA + 24x960GB SSD drives 

AFF-A700S-101-C 

(HA pair + 24x960GB SSD internal drives) NetApp $ 265,070.00 50% $ 132,535.00 6 $ 795,210.00 

SW-FLASH-BASE-BUNDLE-C 

ONTAP,Per-0.1TB,Flash,BASEBNDL,Ult-Perf,-C 

(BASE BNDL pricing for AFFA700s - OS + Protocols) NetApp $ 654.00 50% $ 327.00 1382 $ 452,044.80 

X-6510-48-16G-R6 Switch,Brocade 6510 48-Pt FF Ent 16G SWL SFPs NetApp $ 48,715.00 50% $ 24,357.50 2 $ 48,715.00 

X190001 Cisco Nexus 3132Q-X, 32 QSFP+ ports, low power, latency NetApp $ 13,000.00 50% $ 6,500.00 2 $ 13,000.00 

X66100-1 Cable,Direct Attach CU SFP+,40Gb,1m NetApp $ 250.00 50% $ 125.00 2 $ 250.00 

Panduit FX2ERLNLNSNM002 Cable,Cntlr-Switch,2m,Pair,LC/LC,Op (Fiber) 

3rd Party 

Quote $ 20.65 $ 20.65 48 $ 991.20 

Panduit FX2ERLNLNSNM010 Cable,Host-Switch,10m,Pair,LC/LC,Op (Fiber) 

3rd Party 

Quote $ 34.25 $ 34.25 30 $ 1,027.50 

X66031A 

Cable,12Gb,Mini SAS HD to HD,1m (NVRAM10p to 

NVRAM10p HSL Link) NetApp $ 26.72 50% $ 13.36 12 $ 160.32 

Qlogic 2672-CK 

Qlogic 16Gig 2port HBA for servers 

3rd Party 

Quote $ 1,290.00 $ 1,290.00 15 $ 19,350.00 

X66100-5 Cable,Direct Attach CU SFP+,40Gb,5m NetApp $ 375.00 50% $ 187.50 24 $ 4,500.00 

X8712C-EN-R6-C PDU, 1-Phase, 24 Outlet, 30A, NEMA, -C, R6 NetApp $ 550.00 50% $ 275.00 2 $ 550.00 

X870E-EN-R6-C Cab,Lighted,Empty,No PDU,No Rails,EN,-C NetApp $ 5,680.00 50% $ 2,840.00 1 $ 2,840.00 

X8778-R6-C Mounting Bracket, Tie-Down, 32X0, -C, R6 NetApp $ 50.00 50% $ 25.00 12 $ 300.00 

CS-O2-4HR- VA HW Support,Premium2,4hr,y NetApp $ 49,701 50% $ 24,850.32 6 $ 149,101.89 

PS-TM-CONSULT-NB-DY-TE-ZA Consulting Day+TE NonBus,ZA Exp. 1yr. from PO NetApp $ 5,063.00 $ 5,063.00 1 $ 5,063.00 

Total ($) $ 1,493,103.71 

The above pricing includes hardware maintenance and software support for three years, 

7 days per week, 24 hours per day. The hardware maintenance and software support 

provides the following: 

 

 

Acknowledgement of new and existing problems within four (4) hours. 

Onsite presence of a qualified maintenance engineer or provision of a customer 

replaceable part within four (4) hours of the above acknowledgement for any hardware 

failure that results in an inoperative Price Storage Configuration that can be remedied 

by the repair or replacement of a Priced Storage Configuration component. 

Differences between Tested Storage Configuration and Priced 

Storage Configuration 

There are no differences between the Tested Storage Configuration and the Priced 

Storage Configuration. 



NetApp® AFF A700s


Priced Storage Configuration Diagram 



NetApp® AFF A700s


Priced Storage Configuration Components 

Priced Storage Configuration 

15 QLogic QLE2672 dual-port 16 GB HBAs 

2 Brocade 6510 16 GB, 48-port FC switches (data network) 

NetApp® AFF A700s 

6 HA controller pairs in 4RU chassis 

2 controller nodes per chassis 

12 controller nodes total. Each node includes: 

o 512 GB memory/cache (6144 GB total) 

o 4 32 GB FC front-end connections (48 total and used) 

o Internal 12 GB SAS (no cards, no cables) 

2 Cisco Nexus 3132Q-X 40 GB 32 QSFP+ ports (cluster network) 

144 960 GB Solid State Drives (SSDs) (24 SSDs per HA controller pair) 

1 Cabinet – deep, heavy, no PDU, no rail 

2 PDUs – 1-phase, 24 outlet, 30A NEMA 



NetApp® AFF A700s

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