Purpose-built performance for virtualizing data-intensive applications

Optimize Performance for Virtualized Data-Intensive Applications

Flash as a cache satisfies the I/O needs of virtualized applications and minimizes latency associated with traversing the network to satisfy I/O from NAS or SAN. Performance can be targeted on a per-VM, file, volume, or disk basis to ensure performance is consistently delivered to the virtualized applications that need it.

Support vMotion to Preserve IT Infrastructure Agility

With ioCache there is no need to sacrifice performance for agility in your VMware environment. ioCache fully supports dynamic vMotion so administrators can move VMs at will—and without requiring ioMemory to be installed in every physical server. The ioTurbine software dynamically allocates cache as VMs come and go, to make the best use of cache capacity. ioTurbine software supports setting cache on a per-VM basis to protect performance levels of mission critical and business critical VMs. With ioTurbine, users can load balance across servers dynamically with VMware Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS) and can schedule maintenance with no downtime using vMotion—and without the need to overprovision cache on each participating host.

Integrate Transparently with Existing Infrastructure

The ioTurbine caching software supports both caching in the hypervisor, solving the random IO blender effect of virtualization, or caching within each or all guest OS VMs, for file-level aware acceleration. By tightly coupling with the file system I/O routines in the guest OS, I/O patterns are transparently redirected so flash storage is efficiently shared across all hosted VMs. No configuration changes are needed in the guest OS, host, storage, or networking equipment.

Consolidate Software Licenses and Infrastructure

Satisfying IOPS from flash enables more VMs per server, further driving consolidation and increasing ROI.  For customers licensing enterprise software by CPU or core, consolidation of more applications on fewer servers offers immediate and tangible cost savings.

Offload Shared Storage

Satisfying read IOPS from flash as a cache frees up shared primary storage controllers to better service persistent writes.  This complementary effect of flash as a cache allows users to increase the useful life of shared storage infrastructure and rebalance the processing load from expensive storage to cost-effective servers.