Hewlett-Packard (HP) says it strength of character concentrate on the I/O bottleneck formed by interior and outer storage space in the sphere of its subsequently generation of ProLiant servers, boosting performance by up to 50% on behalf of standard applications such the same as online transaction handing out (OLTP) and streaming videocassette.
HP understood in the sphere of two separate blog posts with the aim of its approaching ProLiant Gen8 member of staff serving at table line strength of character offer solid-state drives (SSDs) in the sphere of combination with a data caching algorithm with the aim of it calls Dynamic Workload increase of velocity.
The HP ProLiant servers include a 6Gbps embedded SAS controller with the aim of moves from using 15,000rpm SAS difficult drives to SAS-based SSDs. The inexperienced controller offers six era the performance of before generation controllers. DRAM store amount is besides being doubled on the servers.
"Yes, Gen8 strength of character stay a screamer and workloads strength of character run by remarkable levels," understood Steve Schultz, who leads HP's Smart storage space Firmware Engineering team. "But further than performance, storage space amount is an extra tenderness promontory."
ProLiant Gen8 strength of character besides support up to 50% other difficult drives in excess of the before generation line, on behalf of up to 36TB of amount in the sphere of a single 2U (3.5-in high) DL380.
HPs strategy revolves around its Gen8 Smart Array RAID controller, which uses SSDs and a caching algorithm it calls Dynamic Workload increase of velocity on behalf of ProLiant Gen8. The algorithm strength of character migrate the most recent data to the highest-performance storage space.
HP claims with the aim of its Gen8 Smart Array RAID controller with SSDs is 60 era earlier than the before generation controller with difficult CD-ROM drives. And, with PCIe Gen 3 support, bandwidth has been increased by other than 85%, the company understood.
With its SSD option and Dynamic Workload increase of velocity caching software, HP is making a recreation adjacent to other vendors who've besides upped the ante with NAND twinkle and data caching, such the same as Oracle/Sun, Fusion-io and EMC, understood Valdis Filks, Gartners seek director on behalf of in a row equipment infrastructures.
"Storage really is lone of the biggest bottlenecks. The member of staff serving at table has increased in the sphere of break the speed limit 10 era and CD-ROM storage space has probably not doubled in the sphere of the remaining five years the same as far the same as response era," Filks understood. "I continuously say, this SSD marketplace is a battle of the caching algorithms. It's going on for who has the preeminent caching algorithms on behalf of pre-fetching data and being able to understand the data."
Fusion-io has been promotion PCIe twinkle cards on behalf of servers on behalf of going on for four years. In the sphere of February, EMC announced its VFCache produce line, an initiative to put on the market PCIe-based NAND twinkle cards on behalf of servers the same as a caching element to growth I/O performance by up to 4,000 era. The company besides began promotion storage space arrays crammed with 10 or else 15 of the twinkle cards and connected by InfiniBand networks on behalf of high-performance treatment workloads.
EMC's essential member of staff serving at table customer strength of character stay Cisco, which is planning to application the PCIe cards in the sphere of its Unified Computing regularity Servers (UCS).
But SSDs in the sphere of servers solitary solve part of the snag, according to Filks.
"At the instant if you stick this SSD tag in the sphere of the member of staff serving at table, it really doesn't know what did you say? The storage space array is liability. We believe surrounded by the subsequently three years, they'll try to encompass software someplace the tag communicates with EMC storage space arrays, and as with the aim of happens EMC strength of character encompass a lovely lock-in," Filks understood, adding together with the aim of HP strength of character likely move out down the same path.
But, EMC, HP and Fusion-io don't encompass a prop up on Oracle/Sun, which has been promotion its Exadata storage space member of staff serving at table Software on behalf of databases on behalf of years and which communicates by the treatment level, Filks understood. For the reason that it is tightly integrated with the prophesy folder, the software can pre-fetch data queries, giving it an benefit in the sphere of provisions better millisecond response era in excess of storage space systems, he understood.
"Anyone by the storage space layer is future to the merrymaking after everyone else," Filks understood. "Storage is so sluggish, with the aim of it's firm populate strength of character perceive an benefit by using SSDs, but [EMC, HP and others are] really fair tiresome to catch up."
HP launched its current Gen7 ProLiant member of staff serving at table line in the sphere of swagger 2010. Remaining month, HP released more or less details going on for the next-gen ProLiant member of staff serving at table line, which is based on Intel's approaching Xeon E5 processors.
In the sphere of addition to at the bottom of SSDs in the sphere of its ProLiant member of staff serving at table line, HP understood it is offering something called SmartMemory and "flexible" 10GbE networking ports.
HP understood with the aim of with SSDs, Dynamic Workload Accelteration, SmartMemory and 10GbE connectivity performance of more or less applications strength of character growth by up to 50%, plus transactional throughput on behalf of OLTP and videocassette streaming. It besides understood the servers strength of character application 88% a smaller amount energy and 75% a smaller amount floor liberty, and enable the consumption of 30% other virtual tackle (VMs) with a reduction of 40% in the sphere of energy-per-VM.
"We designed our reminiscence to process endeavor treatment workloads by increasing the bandwidth by 25% while offering 50% better capacities and 35% reminiscence uptime advance using our well along reminiscence miscalculation Detection equipment," HP understood in the sphere of a blog. "Key goal on behalf of our reminiscence design was to realize power efficiency the same as we increased performance. All this translates to other virtual tackle, folder increase of velocity and efficient balanced regularity resource allocation to process slightly workload."