SMB Edition of PernixData FVP Flash Hypervisor Software ($10,000)

PernixData, Inc. announced the availability of a new edition of its FVP software that makes it easy and cost-effective for SMBs to optimize storage performance completely independent of storage capacity.

The SMB Edition of FVP virtualizes flash across up to four hosts, creating a clustered acceleration tier that enables IT administrators to accelerate read and write performance for all virtualized applications. No changes are required to existing server and storage infrastructure, delivering storage performance with no disruptions.

"Many small and mid-sized companies today sacrifice storage performance for cost when they invest in entry-level storage arrays," said Jeff Aaron, VP marketing, PernixData. "While these products deliver cost-effective capacity, they provide limited IO/s and cannot scale with demand. PernixData FVP eliminates this trade-off. For the first time ever, SMBs can now afford the scale-out storage performance they need by using server side flash in conjunction with their existing arrays. No expensive storage upgrades are required."

"The SMB Edition of PernixData FVP is now a key part of infrastructure that helps deliver value to our business," said Pete Koehler, IT manager and virtualization architect, Tecplot, Inc. "By relieving I/O pressure on our overwhelmed back-end storage, we have improved code compiling times for our software development team without requiring an expensive storage upgrade. In addition, we now have a flexible storage architecture that can be easily tailored for our unique workload requirements. Investing in more storage arrays, or upgrading expensive storage fabrics to address performance needs may be a thing of the past."

Flash Hypervisor
PernixData announced the availability of FVP, the company’s flagship product, in August 2013.

All editions of FVP support the same unique functions,
which include:

• Scale-out performance independent of storage capacity: With FVP, increased storage performance is as simple as clustering more server side flash. Performance can be architected based on specific VMs or application requirements rather than being exclusively tied to data store requirements.
• Seamless deployment: FVP technology leverages the investment in infrastructure that companies already have in place. The software is deployed in less than 20mn, with no changes (or reboots) required to VMs, servers or primary storage.  
• Clustered platform compatible with VMware operations: FVP uses patent-pending Flash Cluster technology to enable any host to remotely access the flash device(s) on any other host in the cluster. This technology enables to seamlessly support all VMware operations and products, such as vMotion, DRS, HA, Snapshot, VDP, Site Recovery Manager, Horizon View and vCloud Director. Live migrations and distributed resource management functions continue to operate transparently, with no changes to workflows and no hits to application, network or storage performance.
• Read and write acceleration with fault tolerance: FVP is a server side solution supporting full read and write (write through / write back) acceleration for performance across all virtual applications. Writes are replicated across clustered hosts to ensure fault tolerance.

PernixData FVP version 1.0 is available through channel partners.

Prices

• Enterprise Edition is sold on a per host basis, with no limit on the number of hosts or VMs deployed. There is also no limit on the number of processors or flash devices supported per host. List price is $7,500. per host.
• SMB Edition includes licenses for up to four hosts, with a maximum of two processors and one flash device per host. Up to 100 VMs can be supported across these hosts. List price is $9,999.