Broadcom MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Software

Product Overview MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Software
Today’s workload-intensive business applications are often constrained by the performance limitations of their existing hard disk drives (HDDs). With this type of storage infrastructure already in place, it can be cost prohibitive to switch to a new array based purely on solid state drives (SSDs). Although they are capable of many more transactions per second than HDDs, SSDs have a very high cost per gigabyte and are not suited for heavy, large file workloads. The key to accelerating the performance of existing HDD arrays without making substantial investments in new hardware is to deploy LSI MegaRAID CacheCade software which leverages SSDs in front of HDD volumes to create high-capacity, high-performance controller cache pools.

Cost Effective Application Acceleration
CacheCade Pro 2.0 software offers the perfect combination of HDD capacity and SSD speed. CacheCade Pro 2.0 software is designed to improve the performance of a server’s existing drive volume(s) by, dynamically utilizing SSDs as a dedicated pool of RAID controller cache to maximize random read and write performance. Manual storage management and in-house application tuning costs can be avoided with CacheCade Pro 2.0 software, lowering the total cost of storage ownership for datacentres and small-to-medium businesses.

Application Acceleration Across Business Critical Workloads
CacheCade Pro 2.0 software is the industry’s first software solution that offers both read and write controller-based caching on SSDs, dramatically enhancing the performance gains achieved by the previous generation CacheCade software. With the addition of write caching support, read/ write-intensive workloads such as Exchange server, high performance computing (HPC) applications, Web 2.0 and other IO-intensive OLTP database system workloads, experience dramatic performance improvements. Features • Accelerates performance of existing HDD arrays with small upfront investment.
• Read and Write caching of hot spot data for significant reduction in I/O latency.
• Optimized for real-world workloads of transaction-intensive applications.
• Uses less space and power compared to adding short-stroked drive spindles and unneeded capacity.
• More cost effective than using all SSD storage volumes in storage arrays.
• Cached write data protected by non-volatile CacheCade cache pools (RAID 0, 1, 10) and data availability protected by RAID data redundancy.
• Simple, intuitive management tools to assign and manage CacheCade SSD pool.
• Industry’s first read and write controller-based caching on SSDs, dramatically enhancing performance over the previous generation CacheCade software.