Flash

The beginning of a deep friendship: Me & PernixData FVP 2.0

I’m a bit late, but better late than never. Some days ago I installed PernixData FVP 2.0 in my lab and I’m impressed! Until this installation, solutions such as PernixData FVP or VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache (vFRC) weren’t interesting for me or most of my customers. Some of my customers played around with vFRC, but most of them decieded to add flash devices to their primary storage system and use techniques like tiering or flash cache. Especially SMB customers had no chance to use flash or RAM to accelerate their workloads because of tight budgets. With decreasing costs for flash storage, solutions like PernixData FVP and VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache (vFRC) getting more interesting for my customers. Another reason was my lab. I simply hadn’t the equipment to play around with that fancy stuff. But things have changed and now I’m ready to give it a try.