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Published November 7, 2014 by

Real-World Dedupe on HP 3PAR

HP 3PAR recently released version 3.2.1 of the InForm OS, which most notably brought in-line deduplication to the already rock-solid storage platform. Last week, I wrote briefly about it and included screenshots of estimates in the CLI. Today, I’d like to share real-world results.

I’d like to give particular thanks to Ivan Iannaccone of the HP 3PAR team for reaching out and for early access to the 4.6.1 IMC with dedupe in the GUI.

After I ran the estimate in the previous post, I learned from Ivan that estimates (and jobs) of multiple virtual volumes (VVs) in the same common provisioning group (CPG) will return increased data reduction ratios (read: less used space). Thus, when I received the new InForm Management Console (IMC) yesterday, I ran a new estimate against two VDI (Microsoft RemoteFX) VVs to see how the numbers panned out.

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As you can see, the dedupe ratio rose from 2.31 to 2.83. Every little bit helps, but what is the actual deduplication ratio?

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Published June 4, 2014 by

RemoteFX and Dell Hardware Power Management

VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) can bring great benefits to organizations through consolidated management, reduced hardware maintenance, better remote connectivity and support, and environmental friendliness, to name a few. However, nothing will kill it faster than a hoard of users wishing for their old hardware back, because the new “thing” is too slow.

For many in the field, the first warning is the storage. Monday morning boot storms (or patching, virus scans, etc) can take spinning disks to their knees. I recalling hearing the prophecies all the way back at VMworld 2008. VDI has come a long way since then–so far, in fact, that we ask and even expect streaming video from our virtual desktops (thank you, Teradici and RemoteFX).

fishbowlfirefliesDuring our RemoteFX pilot (on Hyper-V 2012 R2), we started out with mediocre NVIDIA Quadro K4000 GPUs, but learned our error and quickly swapped those for the GRID K2’s. Surely that would bring us the fish and fireflies that everyone else was seeing in their performance tests.

Try as we might, we just couldn’t get consistent results. The best GPUs just weren’t performing.

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