Accelerate Performance, Reduce Cost, and Simplify VMware and Oracle Deployments
Avere FXT Series Edge filers deliver unprecedented performance acceleration and cost savings, proven in real-world VMware and Oracle deployments.
For years, NAS has been a popular choice for file serving, engineering, media, and many other applications that use large volumes of unstructured data. Users have chosen NAS because it is cost effective, simple to manage and scale, and based on familiar IP networking technology. Historically, however, SAN has been chosen for many VMware and Oracle deployments, despite being more costly and complex, because this was the only way to get the required performance. That is, until now.
Avere enables the best of both worlds. FXT Series Edge filers provide an ideal storage solution for VMware and Oracle by providing the cost effectiveness, simplicity, and familiarity of NAS and the ability to scale to any required level of performance.
VMware
Virtualization is revolutionizing the IT world by bringing great efficiency to the data center. VMware, the leader in server virtualization, enables the delivery of high-performance servers with less hardware, power, and space than ever before. Virtualizing the servers, however, is only half the problem.
Server virtualization puts great strains on the storage infrastructure. A storage solution that is powerful, efficient, and flexible is required to complement the virtual servers. Avere delivers just that.
The FXT Series from Avere use intelligent tiering to ensure that active VMware data is stored on RAM and SSD media to deliver the highest performance possible. Inactive data is stored on high-density SATA storage, delivering the greatest cost, power, and space efficiency. Clustering ensures that VMDK data is always available and provides the flexibility to scale the performance of the solution simply as demand grows.
Use Avere for your VMware deployment and achieve the following benefits:
- Efficient, granular tiering automatically places hot VMDK data on RAM and SSD
- Improve VMDK response time by accelerating read, write, and metadata operations
- Clustering provides high availability and simplified scaling as demand grows
- Support for 3rd-party NAS brings the benefits of clustering to non-clustered storage
- Reduce cost, space, and power requirements by storing VMDK files on SATA disks
- Comprehensive performance monitoring for VMs, VMDKs, and ESX hosts
Avere is VMware Ready Certified
Oracle
Because Oracle combines capacity-rich data warehouses and performance-hungry OLTP data files, Oracle databases are a challenge to configure efficiently. With traditional storage this often results in an expensive solution with all data files stored on 15k drives, an unresponsive solution with all data files stored on SATA drives, or a hybrid solution that is difficult to manage and requires the administrator to set up complex policies that require constant attention and adjustment.
Avere provides a much more efficient approach. In the Avere architecture, all Oracle data files are stored on high-density SATA storage for optimal cost, power, and space efficiency. Then, as various indexes or data subsets in a tablespace become active, tiering functionality running on FXT Edge filers automatically moves the active data to high-performance RAM and SSD tiers for optimal responsiveness, freeing the DBA from these tasks. Additionally, the FXT Series supports clustering up to 50 nodes per system to ensure that Oracle data files are always available and that it is simple to scale the solution as demand grows.
Use Avere for your Oracle deployment and achieve the following benefits:
- Intelligent tiering proactively places hot index and data blocks on RAM and SSD
- Improve OLTP performance by accelerating read, write, and metadata operations
- Clustering provides high availability and simplified scaling as demand grows
- Boost performance without expensive and disruptive NAS controller or DB server upgrades
- Use SATA for data warehouse storage and reduce cost, space, and power demands
- Comprehensive performance monitoring with hot lists for Oracle servers and data files
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