Lab Validation:
SanDisk FlashSoft
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Application Performance
Application performance was measured by comparing the performance of VMs running an OLTP test workload on
an unaccelerated baseline system to an accelerated system using FlashSoft software with SSD. The OLTP workload
was tested on a pair of VMs using HDDs only; then it was compared to the same pair of VMs with FlashSoft
software and an SSD read cache target added. Typical database performance metrics were captured and analyzed
for both configurations.
ESG Lab Testing
ESG Lab began performance testing by running an OLTP workload on two VMs configured with HDD data stores.
The data stores hosted the OLTP application. Testing was run in an HDD-only configuration and then repeated with
FlashSoft-managed SSD acceleration enabled. Figure 9 shows the transactions-per-minute performance benefit of
FlashSoft acceleration over the HDD-only configuration.
Figure 9. OLTP Transactions per Minute
What the Numbers Mean
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The OTLTP application was configured with a 4,500 customer database.
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The OLTP application was configured with 95 connections.
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The OLTP application with FlashSoft was able to achieve an average of
4x
more transactions per minute
than the HDD-only configuration.
