Violin Memory With Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Violin Memory, Inc. announced results of a performance study conducted with Red Hat, Inc.

Based on test results, Oracle database workloads running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Violin 6616 flash memory array demonstrated better performance compared to traditional FC disk-based storage for online transaction processing as well as decision support system applications. With the performance gain, companies utilizing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Violin flash memory arrays can accelerate their business transactions.

“Besides offering a performance boost, Violin Flash Memory Arrays can be accessed by multiple hosts simultaneously and does not require proprietary or additional device drivers for deployments with Red Hat Enterprise Linux,” said John Shakshober, director of performance engineering, Red Hat. “This simplifies data access and application migrations, and makes Violin Flash Memory Arrays a great solution to use in conjunction with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization or in a cluster running the GFS2 file system.”

The tests showed that the memory arrays were able to overcome traditional storage bottlenecks by:

• Supporting more than 100 simultaneous processes during test runs

• Improving system performance for OLTP workloads by 2.5 times over a traditional 8Gb FC array

• Providing up to 4.5 times the DSS throughput as compared to 8Gb FC arrays

Testing also demonstrated that with multiple DSS applications stressing the CPU and storage subsystems, the performance advantage of using Violin flash memory arrays is even more pronounced.

“We are very excited about these findings,” said Narayan Venkat, VP of products, Violin. “Violin flash memory arrays are the storage system of choice for compute vendors for various OLTP benchmark efforts and this assessment by Red Hat is a testament to the value of our purpose-built memory architecture.“