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In the video below, Justin Rairden talks about using FAST-enabled VNX storage for his VMware environment which hosts Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server. SUMMARY: they went from 14 SANs with nothing centrally managed, taking hours and hours to manage… to a VNX 5500 running FAST for VMware datastores (which runs critical apps including a SQL-based police system). Things are a lot better now. WHAT IS FAST? EMC fully automated storage tiering (FAST) automatically moves active data to high-performance storage tiers and inactive data to low-cost, high-capacity storage tiers. The result is higher performance, lower costs, and a denser footprint than conventional systems. With FAST, flash drives (aka SSDs) increase application performance by up to 800 percent, and lower cost (NL-SAS or SATA) disk drives lower costs by up to 80 percent. more here. WHAT IS FAST CACHE? EMC fully automated storage tiering (FAST) cache is a storage performance optimization feature that provides immediate access to frequently accessed data. FAST cache complements FAST by automatically absorbing unpredicted spikes in application workloads. FAST cache results in a significant increase in performance for all read and write workloads. more here SOME NOTES:
 
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