Virtualization

The digital economy has put greater value on information as a competitive advantage. The megatrends of virtualization, cloud computing, and bring-your-own device (BYOD) and the increased use and generation of large digital files are all adding to the mix as organizations must access, manage, store, analyze, and recover information to increase revenue.

Is has resulted in an unexpected input/output (I/O) explosion — the direct by-product of virtualization in a digital economy trying to extract value from this compounding data. DymaxIO optimizes I/O at the server level to prevent unnecessary I/O operations from getting into the server, network or shared storage. The result is unprecedented performance gains from software—no additional hardware required.

The challenge of maintaining the highest possible Service Level Agreement (SLA) with no overhead in today’s virtual environments has been solved with DymaxIO fast data software that delivers 50% or more improved performance—overnight—no hardware required.

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Virtualization and Performance

How can virtual platform performance be maximized?

DymaxIO uniquely addresses the unnecessary I/O patterns of reads and writes by aggregating data on writes to perform sequentially while caching reads on available server memory without contention to the application. As a result, DymaxIO boosts application performance by 50% or more by (1) maximizing the efficiency of every single I/O from write requests that leave the server and (2) caching the most active data from read requests using available server memory.

Read I/O Optimization – Much of the I/O traffic moving through the infrastructure shares similar data, yet every byte of that data travels the entire distance from server to storage and back for every I/O request, even when it is frequently accessed data. IntelliMemory™ technology addresses this read request inefficiency by caching the most active data in the server’s available memory. Should an application require more memory, DymaxIO serves memory back to the application to ensure there is never a case of memory starvation or resource contention. Condusiv Technologies’ self-learning caching algorithms have set the gold standard for the industry as they are OEM’d by eight of the top ten largest PC manufacturers in the world.

Write I/O Optimization – DymaxIO’s IntelliWrite® technology optimizes I/O write operations, eliminating the performance penalties associated with the Windows OS, splitting files into pieces and writing each piece to a different logical location within the SAN or NAS. DymaxIO is aware of space allocation and aggregates writes to behave sequentially—requiring less I/O for every file written. Subsequent reads also benefit, since only minimum I/O is required to fulfill the request. As a result, only productive I/O requests are processed across the entire infrastructure, enabling more data to be processed in the same amount of time.

When only productive I/O traffic is processed through the server, network and storage, I/Os per second are accelerated, latency is greatly reduced, and more work can be performed in the same amount of time. This greatly improves the efficiency of all VMware ESX/ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual platforms and physical servers for increased bandwidth.

DymaxIO I/O optimization is tailored for virtual environments that leverage a SAN or NAS as it proactively provides I/O benefit—improving storage performance and benefiting advanced storage features like snapshots, replication, data deduplication and thin provisioning. Since DymaxIO optimizes I/O at the server level, it is complementary to all SAN and NAS storage systems and media types (e.g., HDD or SSD).

“I was shocked to see after deploying Condusiv’s software how much performance increased on the servers I had hosting disk-intensive
operations. This includes our database server, Exchange server, and terminal servers.”
– Bill Philpot, IT Manager, Mesa Industries, Inc.

You may create an online account and download a 30-day evaluation of DymaxIO. For best results, install DymaxIO on ALL VMs on a single host. For evaluation on 10+ systems/VMs, we recommend you contact sales to speak with a Solution Specialist to get set up with the management console for faster deployment.

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