PernixData FVP is a Flash Hypervisor software aggregates server flash across a virtualized data center, creating a scale-out data tier for accelerating reads and writes to primary storage in a simple and powerful way. Was one of first (probably the first) to implement a fault-tolerant write back acceleration.
You can build a PoC or a demo environment using the trial mode and it’s not so complicated (see PernixData FVP installation and PernixData FVP configuration and usage posts).
But you need a place where install it (make sense on a physical environment) and more important time and good workloads to collect reasonable data.
A simple solution is just use the new PernixData PVP interactive demo. Basically a public lab hosted by PernixData.
With this tool you can show FVP clusters, monitor performance statistics, pull resource statistics, view policies, and more. And it’s upgrade to the latest features of version 2.5, included DFTM-Z.
You can ask a temporally access (1 hour limit) on http://www.pernixdata.com/fvp-interactive-demo and then you can login directly on a public vSphere Web Client with three different FVP cluster based on memory, PCI-e flash and SSD.
Each have some workload in order to gain some useful stats. Each has few hosts (seems the same two for all the clusters) with different resources depending by the type of cluster:
On each you can explore all the data like in a real live environment (but this probably is a real live environment).
For more information see also this post: Test out PernixData FVP with an interactive demo.
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Andrea Mauro
Virtualization, Cloud and Storage Architect. Tech Field delegate. VMUG IT Co-Founder and board member. VMware VMTN Moderator and vExpert 2010-24. Dell TechCenter Rockstar 2014-15. Microsoft MVP 2014-16. Veeam Vanguard 2015-23. Nutanix NTC 2014-20. Several certifications including: VCDX-DCV, VCP-DCV/DT/Cloud, VCAP-DCA/DCD/CIA/CID/DTA/DTD, MCSA, MCSE, MCITP, CCA, NPP.
