Training for Testers

The SNIA Emerald™ Program provides a variety of training materials addressing the SNIA Emerald™ Power Efficiency Measurement Specification, performing tests based on the Measurement Specification, and preparing and submitting test results.

Note: SNIA Emerald™ Power Efficiency Measurement Specification V4.0.0  has testing procedures that are very similar to those of V3.0.3 and V3.0.2. Testing for the added Solid State Storage-based systems is the same as for disk-based systems. Therefore, training materials developed for V3.0.2 are fully applicable to testing based on V4.0.0. See the What Has Changed? SNIA Emerald™ Power Efficiency Measurement Specification V3.0.3 to V4.0.0 document for a detailed summary of changes to testing procedures.

Note: SNIA Emerald™ Power Efficiency Measurement Specification V3.0.3 is an editorial update of V3.0.2 with some corrections and clarifications. Training materials developed for V3.0.2 are fully applicable to testing based on V3.0.3. Training materials developed for V3.0.2 are also fully applicable to testing based on ISO/IEC 24091:2019 Information Technology - Power efficiency measurement specification for data center storage.

SNIA Emerald Specification V3.0.2 Update and Program Updates

SNIA and EPA materials for the May 23, 2018 industry stakeholders webinar for SNIA Emerald™ and EPA Energy Star Data Center Storage Programs. 

Slides, recordings, and other materials from the training sessions are available below. 

Session: Program Update - May 23, 2018

SNIA Emerald™ V3.0 Training

SNIA conducted SNIA Emerald™ 3.0 training as a series of six 4-hour webinars in February-March 2018.

The topics, content, and flow follow the comprehensive training plan for V2.0.2, with the focus on V3.0. Emphasis is on the File IO test methods and tools, since this is new to the SNIA Emerald™ Specification V3.0. Block IO is covered in a refresher fashion, attendees were expected to become familiar with V2.0.2 and V2.1 training materials as a background that V3.0 builds upon. There will be no hands-on-lab training.

Slides, recordings, and other materials from the training sessions are available below.  Recommended preparation for the final 3 sessions is given following the agenda below.

To characterize the sessions, the first three sessions are primer and program “what is it”; the final three sessions are technical “how to”.

Session 1: Storage Primer - February 20, 2018

Session 2: SNIA and EPA Program Overview - February 21, 2018

Session 3: SNIA Emerald Programs - February 22, 2018

Session 4: File-Access Testing: Overview and Test Setup - March 20, 2018

Session 5: Generating Emerald Test Data - March 21, 2018

Session 6: Analyze and Report Emerald Metrics - March 22, 2018

Preparation for Sessions 4, 5, and 6

• If there any questions, please email emerald-training@snia.org or emerald@snia.org .

• Look over the materials in the tester kit: https://www.snia.org/emerald/download/Spec_v3.0 .

• For any participant that has not been trained for Block IO or needs a refresher, please visit these URLs:

• https://www.snia.org/emerald/training/July2014
• https://www.snia.org/emerald/training/July2015

• To allow more flexibility for when we resume on March 20th, these SPEC SFS videos are to be watched.

• https://www.spec.org/sfs2014/presentations/index.html
• Required for everyone in the SNIA Emerald Training Program:
  • Application-Level Benchmarking with SPEC SFS 2014
  • Using SPEC SFS with the SNIA Emerald Program for EPA Energy Star Data Center Storage Program
• Optional - for test engineers having interest in the rationale and technology in the SPEC SFS 2014 workload tool:
  • SPEC SFS 2014: An Under-the-Hood Review
• Optional - for performance test engineers using the full suite of SPEC SFS Performance Workloads, the newest 5th workload is not part of the Emerald Test Methods:
  • Introducing the EDA Workload for the SPEC SFS 2014 Benchmark

• For testing labs - the SPEC SFS 2014 test tool is a nominally priced software tool sold by SPEC; prepare to make your purchase of $2000 USD, download, and work with it:

• https://www.spec.org/order.html , which leads to URL https://www.swreg.org/com/shop/128239/cart/7838732002

​Acknowledgement

​SNIA GSI/Green TWG is deeply appreciative of the time and efforts of the following SNIA Emerald Version 3.0 Training Program contributors and presenters. The training program experience, materials, tools, and training session recordings enable the global industry to move forward with ongoing and expanded storage system power measurement testing and reporting with the EPA Energy Star Data Center Storage V1.1 Program.

• Wayne Adams
• Mary Beliveau
• Don Capps
• John Clinger
• Ryan Fogle
• Don Goddard
• Vernon Miller
• Chuck Paridon
• Carlos Pratt
• Nick Principe
• Leah Schoeb
• Patrick Stanko
• Suzanne Stone
• Herb Tanzer
• David Thiel

SNIA Emerald™ V2.1 Update Webinar

A webinar of two 3-hour sessions was conducted on July 20-21, 2015. Slides and materials from this sessions are available. The first session covered the technical details of the SNIA Emerald™ V2.1 Specification and supporting test tools. The second session covered the program details for SNIA Emerald™ Programs, USA EPA EnergyStar Program, and supplementary information on testing services and certifying body services. 

SNIA Emerald™ V2.0.2 4-Day Training Event

Slides and videos of presentations from SNIA Emerald™ training provided at the SNIA Technology Center in Colorado Springs, CO USA during the week of July 14, 2014 are available. The event was attended by Storage vendor companies' test and measurement engineers, independent industry labs participating in the USA EPA Energy Star Data Center Program and offering SNIA Emerald™ testing services, and EPA recognized certifying bodies for the Data Center Program.