DataCore Swarm, Object Storage Software

Model number: DataCore Swarm v15, Object Storage Software
Storage Category: Software Defined Object Storage
Drive quantity, size, type: 32 x EG002400JWJNT HP G8-G10 2.4-TB 12G 10K 2.5 SAS
The test was performed on HP ProLiant DL360 Gen10 servers with 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4208 CPU @ 2.10GHz  and 128GB RAM
Storage configuration: Drives are configured as JBOD. 
The Swarm data protection policy utilized for these tests is software based Erasure Coding 4:2.
Firmware version: HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10 using firmware 4.11
Connection protocol and speed: 10GbE
Additional support: All models and configurations of DataCore Swarm v15, Object Storage Software for S3 compatible storage with specifications equivalent or greater than the above.  

General product family overview:
Swarm is object storage software that installs on any mix of x86 server hardware. Swarm virtualizes the underlying infrastructure creating a scalable pool of resources. Swarm includes two web-based UI's: one for administrators to manage the system, data protection policies and tenants (authorization and authentication), and the other for end-users to access, upload, search and share their content.
Testing was performed using the following software versions: DataCore Swarm 15.2.0 with CloudGateway 7.10.4

Vendor Settings:

• MPIO - yes (Balance-alb over single 10 GbE nic per storage node)
  
  

Additional Considerations:

•  The default block size was used for Veeam Ready tests. Increasing the block size increases read and write performance considerably, decreasing backup windows and increasing Recovery Time Objective (RTO).
  Using larger block size can yield up to 3.5x faster performance. The vendor recommends at least 4MB block size.
  
  
• Deletion performance tuning:

Improve the deletion performance by tuning the following 2 parameters in /etc/caringo/cloudgateway/gateway.cfg

o   RecursiveDeleteMaxThreads , The vendor recommends 200 ( default is 50 )

o   MaxConnections, the vendor recommends 500 ( default is 200 )