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      shalooshalini last edited by

      What are your experiences with IO bottlenecks? Have you considered addressing those cost effectively via Flash based or Solid State Drive (SSD) based caching software?

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        alexntg @shalooshalini last edited by

        @shalooshalini said:

        What are your experiences with IO bottlenecks? Have you considered addressing those cost effectively via Flash based or Solid State Drive (SSD) based caching software?

        I can't think of the last time I didn't use some sort of flash cache or another. It allows for much greater bang for the buck when it comes to storage performance.

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          shalooshalini @alexntg last edited by

          @alexntg said:

          @shalooshalini said:

          What are your experiences with IO bottlenecks? Have you considered addressing those cost effectively via Flash based or Solid State Drive (SSD) based caching software?

          I can't think of the last time I didn't use some sort of flash cache or another. It allows for much greater bang for the buck when it comes to storage performance.

          What SSD caching solution did you use and for which application/OS?

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            scottalanmiller @shalooshalini last edited by

            @shalooshalini CacheCade and VSAN primarily these days.

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              alexntg @shalooshalini last edited by

              @shalooshalini said:

              @alexntg said:

              @shalooshalini said:

              What are your experiences with IO bottlenecks? Have you considered addressing those cost effectively via Flash based or Solid State Drive (SSD) based caching software?

              I can't think of the last time I didn't use some sort of flash cache or another. It allows for much greater bang for the buck when it comes to storage performance.

              What SSD caching solution did you use and for which application/OS?

              Typically a flash-based write cache on the host's SAS controller or VMware vSAN. The only bare-metal OS I run in a server environment is ESXi.

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                shalooshalini @scottalanmiller last edited by

                @scottalanmiller said:

                @shalooshalini CacheCade and VSAN primarily these days.

                Thanks. So what kind of applications really benefit from your CacheCade deployment - are those primarily read intensive applications, say web servers or mostly VDI use case?

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                  shalooshalini @alexntg last edited by

                  @alexntg said:

                  @shalooshalini said:

                  @alexntg said:

                  @shalooshalini said:

                  What are your experiences with IO bottlenecks? Have you considered addressing those cost effectively via Flash based or Solid State Drive (SSD) based caching software?

                  I can't think of the last time I didn't use some sort of flash cache or another. It allows for much greater bang for the buck when it comes to storage performance.

                  What SSD caching solution did you use and for which application/OS?

                  Typically a flash-based write cache on the host's SAS controller or VMware vSAN. The only bare-metal OS I run in a server environment is ESXi.

                  Great, thanks. What are some of the typical applications that benefit from write-caching in your environment?

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                    scottalanmiller @shalooshalini last edited by

                    @shalooshalini said:

                    @scottalanmiller said:

                    @shalooshalini CacheCade and VSAN primarily these days.

                    Thanks. So what kind of applications really benefit from your CacheCade deployment - are those primarily read intensive applications, say web servers or mostly VDI use case?

                    File serving is the big one for me, and vSphere virtualization.

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                      alexntg @shalooshalini last edited by

                      @shalooshalini said:

                      @alexntg said:

                      @shalooshalini said:

                      @alexntg said:

                      @shalooshalini said:

                      What are your experiences with IO bottlenecks? Have you considered addressing those cost effectively via Flash based or Solid State Drive (SSD) based caching software?

                      I can't think of the last time I didn't use some sort of flash cache or another. It allows for much greater bang for the buck when it comes to storage performance.

                      What SSD caching solution did you use and for which application/OS?

                      Typically a flash-based write cache on the host's SAS controller or VMware vSAN. The only bare-metal OS I run in a server environment is ESXi.

                      Great, thanks. What are some of the typical applications that benefit from write-caching in your environment?

                      In my environment, or my clients' environments? My environment's on AWS, so I'm not aware of the back-end hardware. My clients' environments are fully virtualized, so everything, really.

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                        scottalanmiller last edited by

                        Yup. Both internal and clients are basically completely virtual and generally on VMware.

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