{"id":12090,"date":"2015-03-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=12090"},"modified":"2018-12-21T08:06:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T07:06:12","slug":"pernixdata-fvp-2-5-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/pernixdata-fvp-2-5-released\/","title":{"rendered":"PernixData FVP 2.5 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"pernixdata25announced01\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pernixdata25announced01.jpg\" alt=\"pernixdata25announced01\" width=\"602\" height=\"202\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PernixData FVP 2.5 has been released\u00a0and now extends its capabilities with new interesting features. FVP 2.5\u00a0is GA and ready for download.<\/p>\n<p>PernixData FVP solution puts storage intelligence into server flash and RAM improving VM performance, IOPS that scale-out with compute and lower storage costs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>FVP can accelerate <strong>any supported<\/strong> VMware storage (FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NFS, local host datastores) bringing benefits to all environment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VM performance improves<\/li>\n<li>Reduces I\/O hitting the SAN and Array<\/li>\n<li>Less peak load<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"pernixdata25announced02\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pernixdata25announced02.jpg\" alt=\"pernixdata25announced02\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PernixData FVP <strong>functionalities and features<\/strong> have been already discussed in my <a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/category\/vmware-2\/pernixdata-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous posts<\/a>, so check out for additional info:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/pernixdata-fvp-installation-part-1\/\">PernixData FVP installation \u2013 part 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/pernixdata-fvp-2-0-released\/\">PernixData FVP 2.0 released<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/pernixdata-fvp-1-5-upgrade-2-0\/\">PernixData FVP 1.5 upgrade to 2.0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>What's new in FVP 2.5<\/h2>\n<p>Three new main features have been introduced with this new release:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DFTM-Z<\/li>\n<li>Intelligent I\/O Profiling<\/li>\n<li>Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>DFTM-Z<\/h4>\n<p>Distributed Fault Tolerant Memory (DFTM) introduced with FVP 2.0, allows RAM to be used as acceleration resource in addition to flash devices. In FVP 2.5, DFTM-Z increase the capability with <strong>adaptive memory compression<\/strong> using the open source <a href=\"https:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/lz4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LZ4<\/a><strong> compression<\/strong> algorithms, that's why \"Z\".<\/p>\n<p>DFTM-Z is automatically enabled on the host when more than <strong>20 GB of memory<\/strong> is given\u00a0to the FVP cluster and it provides high compression ratio at a low cost.\u00a0Compressing RAM brings benefit of\u00a0having more <strong>effective RAM space<\/strong> saving costs for the total RAM used in hosts.<\/p>\n<p>Accessing the <strong>FVP Cluster<\/strong> view, the <strong>Summary<\/strong> tab reports two values as <strong>Capacity<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>128 GB is the real <strong>number of flash and\u00a0RAM<\/strong> resources available to the FVP cluster<\/li>\n<li>133,91 GB is the value of <strong>memory with compression<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12100 size-full\" title=\"pernixdata25announced03\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pernixdata25announced03-e1425020833628.jpg\" alt=\"pernixdata25announced03\" width=\"600\" height=\"216\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Intelligent I\/O Profiling<\/h4>\n<p>Since not all workloads benefit from the acceleration provided by FVP, this new feature allows FVP to have a different behavior for different workloads on the same VM. <strong>Large sequential I\/O<\/strong> don't benefit from the FVP acceleration but may impact on the performance.<\/p>\n<p>A database could run a heavy workload and FVP acceleration would provide a big benefit while a backup process\u00a0would impact negatively on performance.<\/p>\n<p>Using profiles, FVP <strong>changes the configuration<\/strong> depending on the workload type: system identifies I\/O profiles that are not suitable for server-side acceleration and automatically send them right to shared storage bypassing local server media.<\/p>\n<p>This solution <strong>maximize the performance<\/strong> of these workloads types and also the performance of workloads who use acceleration making flash and RAM resources available for storage acceleration when needed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)<\/h4>\n<p>With RBAC, the FVP environment is more secure by granting appropriate access to authorized individuals with a more control over who can do what.<\/p>\n<p>There are three levels of access to the system:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Read and Write<\/strong> \u2013 users can view FVP configurations, usage and performance charts and they can change configurations<\/li>\n<li><strong>Read-Only<\/strong> \u2013 users can view FVP configurations, usage and performance charts but they can't change configurations<\/li>\n<li><strong>No Access<\/strong> \u2013 users don't have access to the system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>FVP Editions<\/h2>\n<p>PernixData FVP comes with the following editions:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12101 size-full\" title=\"pernixdata25announced04\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pernixdata25announced04-e1425021220980.jpg\" alt=\"pernixdata25announced04\" width=\"600\" height=\"518\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PernixData FVP 2.5 can be downloaded from the <a href=\"http:\/\/support.pernixdata.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Support Portal<\/a>\u00a0(requires login). Additional info can be found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pernixdata.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PernixData<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/firma.jpg\" alt=\"firma\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PernixData FVP 2.5 has been released\u00a0and now extends its capabilities with new interesting features. FVP 2.5\u00a0is GA and ready for download. 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