Well after almost one year of waiting I have been able to get my hands on the Whiptail SSD SAN Appliance. We will be piloting this appliance for our Exchange and XenDesktop Deployments in the coming weeks. Stay tuned as I will be posting a series of posts comparing this to other SAN vendors.
SSD is the future – If you are interested I have some really good contacts with the guys @ Whiptail. My configuration is coming with 10 GB Ethernet and can be configured with as much as an Infiniband 40 GB. I am really excited to see what 150,000 IOPs can do for me!
Here is an excerpt from their website on the product.
Thanks,
Dave
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Today, storage performance is the datacenter’s largest operational constraint. The latest generation of Intel and AMD chips are bored senseless by one major challenge: the data access speeds are still dependent upon rusty spinning disks that reached their plateau of 15k RPM a decade ago. It is no longer an option for enterprises to continue over-provisioning on legacy HDDs for incremental performance gains. We commonly see latency of 6-9 ms with legacy disk storage due to its read/write constraints – approximately 2,500 IOPS – which has resulted in bottlenecks due to disk contention.
Thanks to its solid-state drive (SSD) architecture, the Datacenter XLR8r offers blazing acceleration of high I/O applications such as Exchange, SQL, Oracle, and OLTP. The Datacenter XLR8r is the first solid-state SAN to solve both the endurance and cost-point issues of solid-state memory. One Datacenter XLR8r can replace (6) fully loaded racks of HDDs, proving the theory that (to put it bluntly)…DISK IS DEAD.
Inline Data Deduplication
Redundant data is eliminated on the ingress, making it the “Holy Grail” of deduping. This feature is especially beneficial in server virtualization environments where 80-90% of the data is repetitive.
Inline Data Compression
Thanks to their alpha-numeric core, databases are tremendous candidates for compression. Consolidation ratios are commonly seen at 4:1, thus dramatically increasing the amount of effective storage available.
