yyaazz's tech thoughts

NetApp Insight was my first experience with Flash Cache in action. It was actually a video presentation, but the cool factor was pretty high. Fun starts at 2:35 when 1000VM starts to boot

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In the previous posts here and here I’ve already tested the Data ONTAP 8.0.1 VAAI capabilities with a FAS2040 controller. This week we were fortunate enough to test a brand new FAS3210 system, and I repeated the VAAI tests to see the differences. Of course I know the new 3200 and the 2000 series are not the same category, but I wanted to see how much faster and what’s the difference between the VAAI and non-VAAI operations.

I have the same piece of HW:

• Cisco UCS B200 blade system with two X5550 sockets and 48GB of RAM
• Cisco Nexus 5010 with 4Gb FC connection to the NetApp box

New storage box:

• NetApp FAS3210 with 24×300 SAS 15krpm disks. For this test I’ve created the same aggregate of 9 disks.

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