In 2013 the EMC Elect story started: 75 top social media influencers were hand-picked by their peers for sharing their knowledge and enthusiasm about EMC products and solutions over the past year. I myself am honored to be part of the EMC Elect, together with my fellow Open Line colleagues Rob Koper and Menno de Liège. With 2014 around the corner, it’s time to continue the story and nominate the EMC Elect 2014.
Welcome to the (mini-)series on VNX Performance and how to leverage SSD in a VNX systems. You can find part one on skew and data placement over here. The second post discussed the improvements for FAST Cache in VNX OE 32. This third and final post will discuss some of the ideal use cases for SSD in a VNX.
If you’ve got SSD in a VNX you can use it in two ways: as FAST Cache or as an extreme performance tier in your storage pools (FAST VP). Either of these implementations has advantages and disadvantages and they can also be used concurrently (i.e. use FAST Cache AND FAST VP). It depends on what you want to do…
This is the second post in a (mini-)series on VNX Performance and how to leverage SSD in VNX systems. You can find part one on skew and data placement over here. This post will dive deeper into the FAST Cache improvements that have been added in VNX OE R32.
If you’ve got SSD drives in a VNX you can use it in two ways: as FAST Cache or as an extreme performance tier in your storage pools (FAST VP). Either of these implementations has advantages and disadvantages and they can also be used concurrently (i.e. use FAST Cache AND FAST VP). It depends on what you want to do…
The last post ended with some improvements in VNX OE R32. But there is more…
The last breakout session I attended at EMC World 2013 was titled “Leveraging SSD: Designing for FAST Cache & FAST VP on Unified Storage”. By far one of the best breakout sessions of the week for me: technical and I can apply it in the field on pretty much a daily basis!
If you’ve got SSD drives in a VNX you can use it in two ways: as FAST Cache or as an extreme performance tier in your storage pools (FAST VP). Either of these implementations has advantages and disadvantages and they can also be used concurrently (i.e. use FAST Cache AND FAST VP). It depends on what you want to do…
But let’s start at the beginning: first you need to figure out your skew! What?!
The theme of EMC World 2013 is the Software Defined Datacenter. Once of the big announcements is ViPR, which promises to be the Logitech Harmony remote for the storage infrastructure. Instead of having to do all the steps of storage provisioning manually, ViPR will automate most of these steps. The goal: more efficient management and a much faster time to implement at lower cost. And just look at the logo… that alone is worth buying the product! 😉