Server Virtualization

Ignite Virtual Server Performance and Efficiency

Virtualization allows organizations to use and manage infrastructure much more efficiently. However, virtualization places extremely high demand on storage systems by making even sequential access random. Because random access is precisely the pattern that most challenges traditional storage, much of virtualization's cost savings are offset by the need to purchase and maintain expensive storage systems just for performance purposes. Fusion's industry-leading, low-latency ioMemory eliminates the I/O bottleneck to improve virtual machine workload capabilities in all servers, allowing organizations to unleash virtualization's true potential. This makes it easy for organizations to size by capacity instead of performance.

Increase the performance of virtual machines

  • Run more virtual machines per server
  • Improve the performance of each virtual machine
  • Virtualize even the most data-intensive workloads, including databases
  • Reduced I/O latency drives higher throughput of virtual machines

Simplify virtual environments

  • Use fewer servers to support more virtual machines
  • Consolidate and simplify virtual environments
  • Accelerate existing storage infrastructure
  • Utilize disk storage for capacity, not performance

Fully leverage your hardware investment

  • Replace large amounts of costly RAM with a Fusion-io memory tier
  • Achieve better CPU utilization
  • Reduce reliance on costly high-speed network storage
  • Continue to leverage vMotion (with ioTurbine)
  • Dynamic reallocation of flash capacity as VMs come and go assures maximum efficiency of flash resources
  • Fully utilize your hardware resources and stop overprovisioning them

Organizations can deploy ioMemory in the following ways:

  • Drop ioCache into existing VMware environments. ioCache combines ioMemory hardware—specifically designed for virtualization cache—with ioTurbine software to deliver up to 600GB of cache to VMware. This makes virtual server performance faster and more reliable.
  • Create a scalable platform for the enterprise. Organizations with the need for more than 600GB of cache capacity can seamlessly pair the management capabilities of ioTurbine with ioDrives or ioDrive Duos to create much larger VMware caches.
  • Power any virtualization platform. Organizations who do not use VMware can still store the I/O intensive files of any virtualizaton hypervisor on ioMemory to greatly improve VM workload capabilities and reduce management and costs.

Customer Results

  • 80% of respondents to a recent survey of IT organizations that use Fusion-io for virtualization achieved 3x or more performance.
  • One customer who uses Fusion-io for virtualization told us how easy it was to implement. “Fusion-io was immediately deployable in our existing infrastructure and required only small changes on the application side for a significant performance boost.”