… and data reliability areas. Priceline for Virident tachIOn cards already shows the price competition: oriented price for tachIOn 400GB is 13,600$ (that… Virident tachIOn card can sustain write in fully utilized card. As disclaimer I want to mention that Virident tachIOn card was fine tuned by Virident…
Post: MySQL 5.5.8 and Percona Server on Fast Flash card (Virident tachIOn)
December 21, 2010 By 11 Comments
… UCS C250 server with 384GB of RAM, powered by a Virident tachIOn 400GB SLC card. To see different I/O patterns, I…_files located on separate RAID10 partitions, InnoDB datafiles on the Virident tachIOn 400G card The raw results, config, and script are in… recognize that hardware like the Cisco UCS C250 and the Virident tachIOn card may not be for the mass market yet, but…
Post: Percona Server Scales Vertically with Virident tachIOn Drives
February 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
… start scaling vertically with PCI-E flash drives, specifically the Virident tachIOn drive, which offers consistent, low-latency IO performance. I’ve… high-bandwidth, low-latency I/O performance, exemplified by the Virident tachIOn drive. “Scaling up” is once again a viable and economical…
Post: Write performance on Virident tachIOn card
December 13, 2010 By 10 Comments
…. In this regard, Virident claims that tachIOn cards provide “Sustained, predictable random IOPS – Best in the Industry”. Virident generously provided me model… was stripped for performance. Also using my script, Virident made runs on tachIOn 200GB and 800GB model cards and shared numbers with…
Post: White Paper: "Scaling MySQL Deployments Efficiently" from Percona and Virident
February 7, 2011 By 2 Comments
… with Virident on evaluating tachIOn as solution for MySQL, and as result you can find whitepaper “Scaling MySQL Deployments Efficiently Using Virident tachIOn Drives”, available from Virident…
Post: Review of Virident FlashMAX MLC cards
November 10, 2011 By 14 Comments
I have been following Virident for a long time (e.g. http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2010/06/15/virident-tachion-new-player-on… have special characteristics; the throughput declines when space utilization increases. Virident’s design/programming minimizes this decline. RAID5 on the card… consulting practice for which we compensated by Virident. However, this review was written independently of Virident, and reflects our opinion of this…
Post: White Paper: Flashcache and MySQL on Virident drive
September 19, 2011 By 2 Comments
… paper is Improving Percona Server performance with Flashcache on the Virident tachIOn Drive. (Virident funded the research, but as always, we wrote the…
Post: Different flavors of InnoDB flushing
January 13, 2011 By 9 Comments
In my recent benchmarks, such as this one about the Virident TachIon card, I used different values for innodb_buffer_pool_size… 5.5, using the Cisco UCS C250 server and the Virident tachIOn PCI-E Flash card. As you can see, in the… a stable level of reads and writes per second the Virident tachIOn card provides.) And here is a graph with the percentage…
Post: Finding an optimal balance of I/O, CPU, and RAM for MySQL
May 16, 2011 By 4 Comments
… as we would like, and solid-state storage — specifically, the Virident tachIOn drive — has more bandwidth than MySQL can fully utilize at… price-to-performance ratio and increase the utilization of the tachIOn drive, Vadim sharded the database into smaller instances and colocated… can read the full details in our Scaling MySQL With Virident Flash Drives and Multiple Instances of Percona Server white paper…
Comment: Write performance on Virident tachIOn card
December 16, 2010 By 10 Comments
Andy, In my previous post http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2010/06/15/virident-tachion-new-player-on-flash-pci-e-cards-market/ the price estimation is 13600$ for tachIOn 400GB card. For FusionIO 320GB SLC Duo on dell.com http://dell.to/hse3pt I see price $17,486.99
