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SOLUTION BRIEF
ENTERPRISE CLASS STORAGE PERFORMANCE WITH PERNIXDATA FVP™ AND MICRON P420M PCIE SSD
The Decoupled Storage Revolution Storage performance is a major thorn in the side of virtualized applications. Slow reads and writes cause unacceptable workload latency, hampering the success of many strategic projects.
CHALLENGE:
Adding more storage capacity is an expensive and inefficient way to solve this
Traditional storage is struggling to keep up with virtual data centers, creating I/O bottlenecks that hamper application performance
ever growing challenge. As a result, many companies are implementing new decoupled storage architectures that leverage server-side flash, like the Micron P420m PCIs SSD, with PernixData FVP storage acceleration software.
SOLUTION:
By combining Micron SSDs with FVP, the following benefits can be achieved:
Micron P420m PCIe SSD and PernixData FVP software move storage performance into high speed server resources
• Decouple storage performance from storage capacity – IOPS are added on demand, allowing you to grow storage performance as needed simply by
BENEFITS:
adding more inexpensive flash. • Best application performance (i.e. lowest VM latency) – By delivering reads/ writes inside the host (where the application resides), PernixData FVP and Micron SSDs minimize applications response times.
• Decouple storage performance from capacity • Faster VM response times • Scale-out IOPS with compute
• Most IOPS at the lowest cost – FVP and Micron SSDs deliver substantially more IOPS than a storage array alone at a fraction of the cost.
PCIe Performance at Your Fingertips The P420m solid state drive uses Micron’s cost-effective multilevel cell (MLC) NAND to deliver PCIe performance at a price accessible to the mainstream market. In addition, the P420m offers high capacity and enhanced reliability technology (XPERT) features like advanced data path protection and power hold up to protect against power failures, which make it a true enterprise-class product. Key Specifications
2.5”
HHHL
Capacity1
350 GB, 700 GB
700 GB, 1.4 TB
x4 PCIe Gen2
x8 PCIe Gen2
Sequential performance
Read: 1.7 GB/s Write: 500 MB/s
Read: 3.3 GB/s Write: 630 MB/s
Random performance3
Read: 400,000 IOPS Write: 51,000 IOPS
Read: 750,000 IOPS Write: 95,000 IOPS
READ/WRITE latency
≤100 μs/ ≤15 μs
Active power consumption
25W
Idle power consumption
8W (TYP)
Operating temp
0°C to +85°C
0°C to +85°C
Dimensions
69.85 x 100.20 x 15.00 mm
68.90 x 167.65 x 18.71 mm
Weight
350 GB: 142.9 g 700 GB: 145.15 g
700 GB: 199.59 g 1.4 TB: 204.12 g
Interface 2
1
Unformatted. 1 GB = 1 billion bytes. Formatted capacity is less. 128 KB transfer size, steady state. 3 4 KB transfer size, steady state. 2
Figure 1: The P420m provide high performance, capacity and reliability, making it an enterprise-class SSd at an affordable price.
PernixData FVP Software
The Combined PernixData + Micron Solution
PernixData FVP™ software, the premier platform for scale-out storage
FVP software is installed in minutes inside your hypervisor kernel.
acceleration, virtualizes high speed server resources like flash and
Once in place, you choose which flash devices you want in a
RAM into a clustered acceleration tier that enables IT administrators
cluster, and whether to accelerate reads and/or writes on a per-
to quickly, easily and cost-effectively scale-out storage performance
VM basis. When write acceleration is enabled, you can choose to
completely independent of storage capacity. The result is unprec-
synchronously replicate between specific flash devices to ensure
edented read and write performance for all virtual machines (VMs),
maximum fault tolerance.
without the need to change existing server and storage infrastructure. By creating a new software based infrastructure for server side storage intelligence, PernixData fundamentally changes how storage
Figure 3 demonstrates sample performance gains seen when PernixData FVP is deployed in conjunction with Micron P420m SSDs.
is designed and operated in virtual data centers.
VM
VM
Hypervisor
Hypervisor PernixData FVP Software
PHOTO of HGST CARD(s)
SERVER
SERVER
P420M SSD
Figure 3 PernixData FVP + Micron P420m SSDs can lower latency for reads and writes by 6x or more
P420M SSD
STORAGE PERFORMANCE
SHARED STORAGE
STORAGE CAPACITY
Figure 2 Deploying FVP software with Micron 420m SSDs takes less than 20 minutes and requires no changes to VMs, hosts, or storage.
Join the Decoupled Revolution PernixData FVP creates a clustered acceleration tier using server side flash, optimizing reads and writes to any primary storage with complete fault tolerance. Micron P420m SSDs deliver superior performance and capacity at an affordable price. The combined solution lets you decouple storage performance from storage capacity for optimal VM performance with cost effective scale-out.
For more information on Micron and PernixData solutions contact:
[email protected]
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