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by rwohleber
Sun Feb 23, 2020 5:18 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Suitability in a VM storage environment, L2 Write Cache ?'s
Replies: 4
Views: 2794

Re: Suitability in a VM storage environment, L2 Write Cache ?'s

Very cool, thanks! Block level cache is ideal for our environment, obviously.

Rick
by rwohleber
Wed Feb 19, 2020 9:48 pm
Forum: Technical Support
Topic: Suitability in a VM storage environment, L2 Write Cache ?'s
Replies: 4
Views: 2794

Suitability in a VM storage environment, L2 Write Cache ?'s

We are considering using PrimoCache in our Hyper-V SAN and it is populated with about 30x large VHDX files (greater than 100GB in size, some are upwards of 1TB). My question is if the Read cache works on a block level or a file level? Also with the L2 Storage Write Cache, will that be helpful for la...
by rwohleber
Wed Feb 19, 2020 1:29 pm
Forum: Submit Suggestions
Topic: L1 Cache greater than 32 GB
Replies: 3
Views: 2976

L1 Cache greater than 32 GB

Greetings all, We have PrimoCache running on a Lab SAN here in our Data Center that we are experimenting with to replace FreeNas in our production SANs. As we all know, FreeNas utilizes all available RAM to be an L1 Read Cache, and then there are ways to utilize SSD's or NvME drives as L2 Cache and ...