Hi Guys
Nice to be here (I think...) :-D
So I can see using OCZ cards in the right place for the price point they do make sense as disposable storage.
OCZ and other SSD cards are still treated as HDD by the OS and are addressed via the storage layer.
Fusion IO's Virtual Storage Layer or VSL software allows the OS to treat the media as storage but it is accessed through a common block interface. What this means is that you have a latency that is more comparable with system RAM.
That being said you can also use a Fusion IO device as your swap disc adding a tremendous amount of virtual memory to a machine.
If you're looking for sequential playback of one stream of HD then an OCZ drive is a great bang for the buck.
If you're looking to playback dual stream 4k 32bit stereo .DPX files in real-time with an ability to scrub timelines, you will need the raw random access performance of a Fusion IO drive to keep up.
If you need to add 365GB of system RAM to an SQL server, drop in an IO Drive2.
Mark Noland Fusion-io - Business development Entertainment | Workstation mnoland@fusionio.com | 310.220.5676
From: Saker Klippsten [sakerk@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 7:23 AM To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com Cc: discuss@studiosysadmins.com; studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com Subject: Re: [SSA-Discuss] FusionIO for Malf(x)'d and overloaded DB's and MORE
"off we go" ... "follow me"...to the ATM machine - you forgot to add that part.
The technology is great but thr price tag is pretty high. The contractors or people who spend my tax dollars on these might not have a problem buying them but in the VFX industry most of us have to turn 10 cents into a dollar. I say most because I know people like prime focus use fusion io but they were an early adopter so I wonder what they paid.
We have deployed a bunch of OCZ cards at a tenth of the price. Non have failed yet. Regardless of fusion io , OCZ or LSI's new one. Do lots of backups as the tech is still being proven.
We have used this first year to deploy mostly for playback / local cache for the majority of applications. Like nuke and RV flippbooking. I have one in use in a flame :) for testing and another we just put in our profile server which gets hit on all day with various file sizes and requests.
That's just my 2 cents maybe the price tag has come down. Maybe you can give us some realistic pricing...
-S
On Feb 1, 2012, at 6:04 PM, jorg mohnen <info@tererra.cominfo@tererra.com> wrote:
Hey Gang
Look out for this technology which I have been involved with for a few months. I have solved a few MySQL issues in the field, and I have seen some SysAdminBash and StudioSysAdmins postings that might very well be interested in giving these guys a call!!! I am working with Vince and Mark Noland at FusionIO for a while discussing specifics of how the FusionIO PCI-X Cards behave as added RAM (pagefilesys & mounting /swap). So for example, if your MySQL server Database has fattened with 3rd party Data Asset Management crap, then off we go to the FusionIO folks to get you out of trouble. If you need immediate scratch on your renders, or if you need that realtime 4K enviro for video, then off we go to the FusionIO folks. If you are involved with military and defense contracts (:))), then....follow me.
Specifically, you guys can contact Mark Noland at FusionIO (he signed up this morning), and get a meeting and tech demo going. If you need technical details, just send me an email too (mohnen@wavgen.commohnen@wavgen.com). The cards come as 128GB all the way through to 4TB. And access speeds are 100x faster than solid state drives!!!!!
In a nutshell:
9X improvement on My SQL: http://www.fusionio.com/solutions/mysql/
40X improvement on Oracle: http://www.fusionio.com/solutions/oracle/
Is it worth mentioning M$ SQL Server here? http://www.fusionio.com/solutions/microsoft-sql-server/
Anyone doing VM work should take a look too: http://www.fusionio.com/solutions/virtualization/
All of the supported flavors of *NIX are being optimized currently.
Nice example about the Fusion IO stuff at Prime Focus: http://www.fusionio.com/solutions/entertainment/
When you have a Fusion card in your system and share the contents, speed-wise it's like have a SAN. You can saturate a 4 way infiniband pipe form point to point.
FYI - did I forget to mention that Mr. Wozniak is "Research Scientist" at FusionIO :)))
Best
Jorg - LA
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