Lsi CacheCade

Software-based VM-centric and flash-friendly VM storage + free version

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Tue Sep 03, 2013 8:27 pm

Just checking to see if anyone has done any testing with cachecade? We're planning some testing using a lsi 9266 and 9 450gb sas drives using 1 intel 520 for ssd caching.
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Tue Sep 03, 2013 9:02 pm

Pointless with a StarWind. Upcoming V8 will have flash caching. Real one (cache synchronized between hosts so a real safe write-back + VMs start from a "hot" state when moved to another one dynamiclly + our flash cache survives reboots, again VMs start from a "hot" state). StarWind paradigm is - invest $ into commodity hardware. So instead of a cache controller and SLC buy a lot of a SATA and MLC. And RAM. We'll do the magic.
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Thu Sep 05, 2013 2:28 pm

Ok, so you will need direct access to the ssd drive then?
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Thu Sep 05, 2013 3:40 pm

No, we'll be fine with any RAID. Software or hardware.
kspare wrote:Ok, so you will need direct access to the ssd drive then?
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