Broadcom LSI MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 SSD Read/Write Caching 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 MegaRAID CacheCade software, which leverages SSDs in front of HDD volumes to create high-capacity, high-performance controller cache pools.

MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 read/write software eliminates the need for manually configured hybrid arrays by intelligently and dynamically managing frequently-accessed data and copying it from HDD volumes to a higher performance layer of SSD cache. Copying the most accessed data (hot spot) to flash cache relieves the primary HDD array from time-consuming transactions which allows for more efficient hard disk operation, reduced latency, and accelerated read and write speeds. This provides significant improvements to overall system performance, two to twelve times that of HDD-only configurations, for a wide variety of server applications including web, file, online transaction processing (OLTP) database, data mining, and other transaction-intensive applications.

Specifications

• MPN: LSI00293
• Product: MegaRAID Cache Cade Pro 2.0 Software
• Compatible with: 9260, 9261, 9265, 9266, 9270, 9271, 9280, 9285, 9286, 9361, 9380