topic Re: Looking for a comparative betwwen FAS6040, FAS3160 and FAS3170 in ONTAP Hardware

Looking for a comparative betwwen FAS6040, FAS3160 and FAS3170

javierb — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:26:38 GMT

Hi everybody

Not wanting to reinvent the wheel,

a customer here is asking for one comparative (not only in figures, I mean, not only in HW components memory-cache, FonrtEnd ports, Disks expansion, Slots expansion, and so on), but in any perfomance metrics that somebody has already measured: IOps, MBps, Exchange mailboxes, ...

I am searching for some numbers to differentiate one FAS6040(A) among FAS3160(A) and FAS3170(A) supposing all the cabins would have same number of disks drives in the trays backend

Thanks

Re: Looking for a comparative betwwen FAS6040, FAS3160 and FAS3170

amiller_1 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:15:32 GMT

So.....I'd go to the Hardware Universe PDF and then to the (NDA) performance stuff available for each model under the partner site (presuming the customer in question is under NDA of course).

Re: Looking for a comparative betwwen FAS6040, FAS3160 and FAS3170

javierb — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:53:49 GMT

Thanks Andrew

This is what I had to do at last because I found nothing.

The point is that HWuniverse are numbers and numbers and no more in order to see or reflect some kind of comparison.

And the perfomance docs that I have (all restricted/confidentail) do not exactly compare same enviroments.

I will investigate a bit deeper

Thanks

Re: Looking for a comparative betwwen FAS6040, FAS3160 and FAS3170

rmrcunetapp — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:58:08 GMT

You should also consider the version of DataOntap. 7.3.1.1 takes full advantage of the 31xx series hardware and can give a very significant performance boost: our 3140 went from 60% cpu utilization on 7.2.5 to about 20% on 7.3.1P3.

Re: Looking for a comparative betwwen FAS6040, FAS3160 and FAS3170

amiller_1 — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:32:49 GMT

Agreed that it is a bit difficult....I usually go off the Random Read, Random Write, Sequential Read, Sequential Write tests as those work well for comparison across platforms (so far I've been able to generate satisfactory performance numbers using those as needed).

Re: Looking for a comparative betwwen FAS6040, FAS3160 and FAS3170

amiller_1 — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:34:18 GMT

Actually, just to be picky, right now I'd do 7.3.1.1L1....

http://now.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/ontap/7.3.1.1L1/

Or just wait a couple weeks for the (at long last) GD 7.3.2 release.