Fusion-io (FIO) has introduced the industry's first unified virtualization software solution with a powerful upgrade of its ioTurbine
software that provides breakthrough performance, control and choice to
enhance the value of virtualization investments. Leading the industry
with unique features that make virtualization viable for even
data-intensive applications, Fusion ioTurbine delivers the option for
hypervisor caching, virtualization-aware caching in the guest VM,
dynamic reallocation of cache memory during live migration of virtual
machines in VMware vMotion, and unified management of caching across virtual and physical environments.
"Just
as Fusion-io revolutionized storage by integrating flash in the server
to bring performance closer to enterprise applications, enabling
virtualization-aware caching is a significant breakthrough in
intelligent virtual performance acceleration," said Vikram Joshi,
Fusion-io Chief Technologist and Vice President. "As adoption of
virtualization is at different stages at different companies, ioTurbine
provides customers with the option to cache in the guest VM or the
hypervisor. Caching at the guest brings performance to the application
where it is needed without costly and ineffective storage sprawl. Fusion
ioTurbine makes it possible to further streamline the stack with
optimized software to accelerate the adoption of flash in virtual
environments, while giving customers flexibility and control over their
infrastructure."
Fusion ioTurbine simplifies the deployment of
virtualization performance through dynamic cache allocation during live
migration of virtual machines, even across heterogeneous servers. With
options for guest VM, hypervisor, and physical server caching, IT
professionals can simplify their investment in virtualization, whether
they are just starting to virtualize a traditional datacenter or are
well on their way to a fully virtual infrastructure. Unified management
of physical and virtual environments further simplifies performance
provisioning, enabling IT professionals to spend more time on strategic
business requirements.
Unique to ioTurbine, virtualization-aware
guest level caching delivers application performance by identifying the
application's most immediate data requirements. Guest VM caching
optimizes the use of flash bandwidth by retaining and caching data
critical to application performance.
"Fusion-io is extending the
ioTurbine caching technology to include the option to cache on physical
servers, in the hypervisor, and the guest virtual machine, while
preserving the ability to support native vMotion," said David Floyer,
Wikibon Chief Technology Officer. "This unified approach gives leading
deployment flexibility and control to enterprise users requiring high
performance cache in the migration to total server virtualization."
As
a flexible platform, Fusion ioTurbine software allows enterprises to
work with the server and storage systems of their choice, including Fusion ION Data Accelerator and the Fusion-io NexGen hybrid storage system.
Fusion ioTurbine software supports multiple operating systems,
including VMware ESXi, Windows, and Linux. The software also includes Fusion ioSphere
monitoring software for local monitoring of multiple deployments of the
software throughout a datacenter, as well as a plug-in for VMware vSphere to provide unified management across physical and virtual servers.
Fusion ioTurbine virtualization software provides:
- Breakthrough Application Performance:
Terabytes of auto-tiered caching provide up to 40x faster database
performance with maximum efficiency and minimal management, enabling IT
professionals to easily control performance and spend more time on
strategic business requirements;
- Options for Hypervisor or Virtualization-Aware Guest VM Caching:
The option for intelligent caching in the guest VM uniquely brings
performance closer to applications to streamline data requirements. The
option to cache in the hypervisor enables enterprises and cloud service
providers to deliver dynamic, high performance caching while meeting
service level agreements;
- Unified Caching Across Disk, Volume, File and VMs:
Unified choice in caching across virtual and physical servers, guest
VMs, as well as in the hypervisor, simplifies the delivery of
performance across environments in all stages of virtualization
adoption;
- Transparent vMotion Support: Support for
asymmetric server configurations further accelerates the software
defined datacenter with completely transparent support for vMotion, high
availability, VMware snapshots, and VMware vSphere dynamic resource scheduler (DRS) without the need for manual vMotion scripting or pre-allocating identical caches across servers;
- Dynamic Cache Allocation and Provisioning: Automatic
rebalancing of cache capacity from live VMs accommodates newly deployed
or migrated VMs, and dynamically provisions all available cache
capacity to live VMs when VMs power off or migrate from the host,
efficiently utilizing full cache capacity;
- Maximize Hardware Investments, Reduce Storage Sprawl:
Double VM density and offload SAN workloads up to 96% in environments
with a variety of read/write mixes to maximize virtualization
productivity while extending the lifespan of storage investments and
offering choice in IT platforms.
Fusion ioTurbine is available as stand-alone software or bundled with the Fusion ioCache
data accelerator platform for virtualization. The ioCache platform
features 750GB of Fusion ioMemory capacity for ultra low latency
application acceleration. The ioTurbine software caches data to the
ioCache platform for rapid processing of critical application data,
while non-critical data moves across the network to slower, high
capacity storage arrays.
Enterprises can evaluate the
virtualization performance gains possible with ioTurbine using the free
ioTurbine Profiler tool available by connecting with an expert via ioTurbineProfiler@fusionio.com.
Fusion-io is also hosting a free educational webinar, "Achieving
Intelligent Virtualization Performance," on Wednesday, June 26 at 2 pm
ET / 11 am PT. Please visit http://run.fusionio.com/ioTurbineWebSeminar to register to attend.
Fusion
ioTurbine is available from Fusion-io and its resellers for a
manufacturer's list price of $3900 USD. The bundled ioTurbine and
ioCache solution is available now for a suggested retail price of $7500
USD. For more information, visit http://www.fusionio.com/products/ioturbine/.