First impression of qnap ts509-pro.

Yesterday I received my qnap ts509. Of course I unpacked it like a little child and couldn’t wait to get it fired up.

Unfortunally the raid5 setup and format of 7 TB took more than 8 hours to complete.

So today was the first day I could try out the qnap.

I received some iometer configuration files and test outcome from Gabrie van zanten. So I decided to test my qnap 509 with the same iometer configuration file.

My setup is

· Storage:

the qnap ts-509 pro with 5 disks in raid5. The disk are Seagate ST32000542AS CC34. (these disk run at 5900 rpm instead of 5400 and have a cache of 32 mb).

On the qnap I turned on nfs and turned off all other software and applications such as itunes etcetera.

· ESX hosts

2 ml350-g5 connected to the qnap with nfs.

· NETWORK

A single 50 bucks 1 gb switch

· OTHER

3 speed test vm’s running on the qnap 509 and also running a domain controller vm and virtualcenter vm

The test setup

As already said, I used the iometer icf file I received from Gabrie. This icf file has four tests.

· Max throughput-100% read

· RealLife-60%Rand-65%Read

· Max Throughput-50%Read

· Random-8k-70%Read

First I fired up all these test one by one on one speedtest vm. And after that I started one test on all three vms simultaneous.

The test vm’s are running windows 2003r2sp2 and all have a extra disk with the iometer on it.

I configured worker 1 to disk target “e disk new volume”

Test outcome

I must say that the qnap performs very well as you can see in the table.

I will blog more on it later. maybe gabe will blog something to compare the iomega and qnap.