topic Re: Comparison of 7.3.x and 8.0.x on FAS6080 hardware in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Comparison-of-7-3-x-and-8-0-x-on-FAS6080-hardware/m-p/54260#M12683 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Since the the fas6080 has plenty of cores I expect to see a performance improvement because of better multi threading. During a test earlier this year on a fas6040 with ontap 8 I saw all 4 cores at 100% <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="happy" __jive_macro_name="emoticon" class="jive_macro jive_emote" src="https://community.netapp.com/4.0.8/images/emoticons/happy.gif"></SPAN></P><P></P><P>A multi threading improvement was already visible for me when I upgraded from 7.2 to 7.3.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:02:01 GMT pascalduk 2010-11-12T07:02:01Z Comparison of 7.3.x and 8.0.x on FAS6080 hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Comparison-of-7-3-x-and-8-0-x-on-FAS6080-hardware/m-p/54247#M12678 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Has anyone got any numbers on the improvement between the code revisions with differing workloads? </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:05:38 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Comparison-of-7-3-x-and-8-0-x-on-FAS6080-hardware/m-p/54247#M12678 shane_bradley 2025-06-05T07:05:38Z Re: Comparison of 7.3.x and 8.0.x on FAS6080 hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Comparison-of-7-3-x-and-8-0-x-on-FAS6080-hardware/m-p/54252#M12680 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Shane,</P><P></P><P>It's a very tricky question &amp; I am not sure whether anyone will give you hard numbers.</P><P></P><P>Be wary though that if you are looking at implementing 64-bit aggregates, they may be actually slower than 32-bit ones (more metadata to be fitted into RAM, but arguably this problem will be limited on the mighty 6080).</P><P></P><P>Regards,<BR />Radek</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:45:36 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Comparison-of-7-3-x-and-8-0-x-on-FAS6080-hardware/m-p/54252#M12680 radek_kubka 2010-11-11T09:45:36Z Re: Comparison of 7.3.x and 8.0.x on FAS6080 hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Comparison-of-7-3-x-and-8-0-x-on-FAS6080-hardware/m-p/54257#M12682 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P></P><P>Thanks for that, we generally run our volumes quite small so running 32bit aggrs in that respect isnt too much of an issue, i'd been doing some reading and noticed a comment that 8.0 had been optimised for 8 cores (or something similar) </P><P></P><P>We're planning doing some testing soon assuming we can free up a 6080 for a bit. Just wondering if anyone had tried it and what their experiences were</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:25:37 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Comparison-of-7-3-x-and-8-0-x-on-FAS6080-hardware/m-p/54257#M12682 shane_bradley 2010-11-11T21:25:37Z Re: Comparison of 7.3.x and 8.0.x on FAS6080 hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Comparison-of-7-3-x-and-8-0-x-on-FAS6080-hardware/m-p/54260#M12683 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Since the the fas6080 has plenty of cores I expect to see a performance improvement because of better multi threading. During a test earlier this year on a fas6040 with ontap 8 I saw all 4 cores at 100% <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="happy" __jive_macro_name="emoticon" class="jive_macro jive_emote" src="https://community.netapp.com/4.0.8/images/emoticons/happy.gif"></SPAN></P><P></P><P>A multi threading improvement was already visible for me when I upgraded from 7.2 to 7.3.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:02:01 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Comparison-of-7-3-x-and-8-0-x-on-FAS6080-hardware/m-p/54260#M12683 pascalduk 2010-11-12T07:02:01Z Re: Comparison of 7.3.x and 8.0.x on FAS6080 hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Comparison-of-7-3-x-and-8-0-x-on-FAS6080-hardware/m-p/54265#M12685 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Yeah</P><P></P><P>We saw a decent jump between 7.2 and 7.3 given the threading improvements we've seen with the 8.0.1 release on other platforms we're interested in seeing how that might translate to the FAS6080's unfortunately we'll need to wait as all the FAS6080's are front line production boxes</P><P></P><P>I wouldnt mind seeing a FAS with all CPU's at 100% the best i've seen so far is about 6 out of 8. <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="wink" __jive_macro_name="emoticon" class="jive_macro jive_emote" src="https://community.netapp.com/4.0.8/images/emoticons/wink.gif"></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:17:00 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Comparison-of-7-3-x-and-8-0-x-on-FAS6080-hardware/m-p/54265#M12685 shane_bradley 2010-11-13T09:17:00Z