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Storage Consolidation Solutions - Windows Users of Raid Arrays, Storage Subsystems, NAS and SAN solutions Disk Subsystems: Nexsan, Adaptec, Systemax, LSI, EMC, HP, Dell, IBM, etc. Windows Storage Server (NAS) appliances Storage Networks: SAN, NAS, iSCSI SAN If your Windows system or networks of Windows servers are already attached to a Raid controller, disk storage arrays or pools, storage subsystems or offloading disk and file management to storage networks (ie, NAS or SANs) then the value of disk I/O acceleration should be apparent. These solutions all work to consolidate and offload storage and disk I/O from the servers they serve. How then can you make these systems faster? Run UpTempo on each of the Windows systems (or at least on the ones that generate high I/O loads) that are attached to the storage array or storage networks. UpTempo acts as a higher level of disk cache that sits on top of whatever caching your storage controllers or SAN devices may have in place. The result is that your servers become more efficient in their requests for data from storage resources and therefore you can get much more out of your storage investments. UpTempo uplifts all the disks that sit behind its sophisticated I/O caching engine. Since you already made the investment for higher end storage solutions let your systems use them to their full potential by installing UpTempo software. Most systems are bottlenecked by I/O and the more tasks and the more disks you have running the more you can gain from UpTempo. UpTempo greatly improves performance for network and multi-user systems that require large multi-disk storage environments. If you have a single disk or a single user - UpTempo can make your system faster. If you have many disks or many users - UpTempo can make your system much faster! Storage arrays and SANs These systems are designed to handle large capacities of data and to serve storage to many different users and applications. By nature they are disk I/O intensive. With these systems there more traffic and congestion are possible and therefore more opportunities exist for UpTempo to break the bottlenecks and accelerate the I/O. There are a lot more opportunities to be efficient and overcome bottlenecks when UpTempo works across multiple users or a large number of disks. The greater the load the better UpTempo performs... Fast backend I/O disk subsystems? UpTempo makes them more efficient - The faster the backend typically the greater the performance gain from UpTempo. UpTempo removes bottlenecks by efficiently managing the flow of I/O and optimizing accesses to your I/O subsystem. Therefore, your fast I/O and disk subsystems can run to their full potential. RAID Implications RAID disk sets offer data protection but are known to be slow, especially for write traffic. With UpTempo, systems gain the intelligence and ability to buffer many writes to optimally combine, order and stage them to minimize the flow of write traffic to disks. Only those writes that change data need to be written to disk, lessening the total workload. In addition, since writes can be buffered, ordered and optimally combined prior to metering them to disk, the read I/O rate also improves for RAID5 systems. |
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