Datrium 3.0 – Surviving all Host SSD failures!

I recently wrote about the new Datrium 3.0 release with blogs here and here, including the support for Red Hat Virtualization and mind-boggling performance numbers. However, during my writing, I forgot to include a new and critical feature that adds enhanced resiliency to the platform and protect the applications even is the last local flash device fails.

Peer Cache Mode

In DVX, we hold all data in use on flash on the host. Moreover, we guide customers to size host flash to hold all data for the VMDKs. With always-on dedupe/compression for host flash as well, this is feasible – with just 2TB flash on each host and 3X-5X data reduction you can have 6-10TB of effective flash. (DVX supports up to 16TB of raw flash on each host). Experience proves this is in fact what our customers do: by and large, our customers configure sufficient flash on the host and get close to 100% hit rate on the host flash.

Read the entire article here, Datrium 3.0 – Surviving all Host SSD failures! – myvirtualcloud.net

via Andre Leibovici at myvirtualcloud.net

MyVirtualCloud.NET by Andre Leibovici Andre Leibovici is a leading expert in the area of Datacenter and Enterprise Mobility. For the last 15 years Andre's passion and dedication has helped many organizations while working for VMware CTO Office, VMware PSO, EMC vSpecialists, and through creating professional blogging resources. His expertise is backed by 20+ years' industry experience managing IT infrastructures and teams for large organizations. Andre's blog myvirtualcloud.net is recognized as one of the industry leading End User Computing blogs with 3M+ hits every month. Based on his field experience, Andre developed a number of free tools to help beginners and advanced architects to appropriately size and architect VDI solutions. Andre's passion led him to found the APAC Virtualization Podcast and speak at conferences and public events. Due to his creativity and accomplishments, Andre received the VMware Virtual Desktop Ingenuity Award'2009, and was recognized as vExpert recipient award for multiple consecutive years. Andre is currently enjoying helping Nutanix as Sr. Director, Partner Innovation & Vertical Alliances.

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