Enterprise, Subscription and VDI Editions of FVP Software by PernixData

PernixData, Inc. announced several editions of its FVP software that facilitate the adoption of decoupled storage in all end user environments, from small businesses to large service providers.

These editions come in conjunction with the availability of version 2.0 of FVP software, a software that accelerates file and block storage by performing reads and writes using server side resources like RAM and flash.

Solution for Any Data Center
PernixData’s FVP software can be purchased in the following ways, providing a range of features and prices to accommodate data center environment:

FVP Enterprise: It is designed for the most demanding applications in the data center. Deployment can be on flash, RAM or a combination of the two. It also introduces topology aware Write Back acceleration via Fault Domains that allows enterprises to align FVP with their data center design best practices. In addition, it comes with built-in resource management that makes the best possible use of available server resources. With FVP Enterprise, there is no limit placed on the number of hosts or VMs supported in an FVP Cluster.
FVP Subscription: A version of FVP Enterprise that is purchased using a subscription model, making it for service provider environments.
FVP Standard: It is designed for the most common virtualized applications within the data center. It supports deployments via all flash or all RAM. No limit is placed on the number of hosts or VMs in an FVP cluster. FVP Standard is purchased as a perpetual license only.
FVP VDI: A version of FVP exclusively for VDIs (priced on a per desktop basis.)
FVP Essentials Plus: A bundled version of FVP Standard that supports three hosts and accelerates up to 100 VMs (in alignment with vSphere Essentials Plus). This product replaces the FVP SMB Edition.

“With the latest editions of FVP software, PernixData brings enterprise storage acceleration features to every end user environment,” said Bala Narasimhan, director of product management, PernixData. “By making it extremely easy and affordable to put storage intelligence into high speed server resources, PernixData is leading the decoupled movement and changing the storage landscape forever.”

Raising the Bar for Storage Acceleration
According to a recent Virtualization and Storage Report, 51% of IT professionals want to increase storage performance, while only 21% exclusively need more storage capacity. To address this dichotomy, 44% have implemented or plan to implement server side flash in the next 12 months, with over 70% interested in deploying storage acceleration software like FVP.

FVP virtualizes server flash and RAM to create a low latency IO acceleration tier. By decoupling storage performance from capacity, it maximizes VM performance, minimizes storage costs, and lets companies of all sizes scale-out storage performance in an easy and cost effective way.

Since first shipping in August 2013, FVP has distinguished itself with following features:

Fault-Tolerant Write Acceleration – FVP is a storage acceleration software with both read and write acceleration with fault tolerance.
Clustered Platform – FVP allows any host to remotely access other hosts, ensuring seamless support of all VM operations and products (e.g. vMotion, HA, DRS etc).
100% seamless deployment – FVP is deployed in the hypervisor using public APIs certified by VMware. No changes are required to VMs, hosts or primary storage.

FVP version 2.0 raises the bar with following capabilities:

Distributed Fault Tolerant Memory (DFTM) – FVP lets users cluster server RAM, providing fast acceleration with complete fault tolerance.
Optimize any storage device – FVP supports file (e.g. NFS), block (e.g. iSCSI, FC, FCoE), and local datastores for seamless integration into any environment.
User defined fault domains – IT administrators can software define which hosts participate in replica groups for increased data protection.
Adaptive network compression – FVP minimizes traffic to optimize available network and storage resources.

FVP Enterprise (including Subscription), Standard, VDI and Essentials Plus are available, as is version 2.0 of FVP software. FVP is sold through resellers.

To download a free FVP software trial (registration needed)
Survey report by the company
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