Overview:

The Best Performance Density...Doubled

The ioDrive2 Duo provides 2.4TB of capacity per x4 and x8 PCI Express slot of the highest capacity ioDrive2. This allows organizations to handle twice the transactions, queries and requests; add capacity for future growth; ensure applications seamlessly handle larger traffic spikes; or consolidate more infrastructure. Combined multiple ioDrive2 Duos deliver the same industry-leading low latency, while achieving gigabytes of bandwidth and hundreds of thousands of IOPS with a single server – to power data warehouses and other big data applications.

• Doubles the performance of the industry leading ioDrive2
• Sustain over 2.6 GB/sec of bandwidth
• Integrates with servers at the system bus and kernel level, creating a new Flash memory tier
• Not an Solid State Disk (SSD) - easily outperforms dozens of SSDs and a single server
• Accelerates applications, improves response times, and boosts efficiency
• Reduces storage latencies and eliminates I/O bottlenecks
• Delivers the performance of thousands of disk drives in a single server
• Easy to use, highly reliable

Technical Specifications:

ioDrive2 Duo Capacity	1.2TB	2.4TB
NAND Type	SLC (Single Level Cell)	MLC (Multi Level Cell)
Read Bandwidth (64kB)	3.0 GB/s	2.6 GB/s
Write Bandwidth (64kB)	2.6 GB/s	2.4 GB/s
Read IOPS (512 Byte)	702,000	179,000
Write IOPS (512 Byte)	937,000	922,000
Read Access Latency	47 µs	68 µs
Write Access Latency	15 µs	15 µs
Weight	Less than 16 ounces
Bus Interface	PCI-Express 2.0 x8
Operating Systems	64-Bit Microsoft XP/Vista/Win7/Server 2003/Server 2008, RHEL 4/5/6, SLES 10/11, OEL v5/6, VMware ESX 4.0/4.1/ESXi 4.1/5.0, Solaris 10 U8/U9, OSX 10.6.7/10.7, HP-UX 11i
Environmental Specifications
Operational Temperature*	0° to 55° C
Non-Operational Temperature*	-40° to 70° C
Air Flow (LFM)	300
Humidity	5% to 95% noncondensing
Operational Altitude	10,000 ft maximum
Non-Operational Altitude	30,000 ft maximum
Standards
Form Factor	Full height, Half length PCI Express
Connectivity	PCI Express 2.0 x8 (electromechanical spec 2.0)

* Temperate derated 1 C per 1000 ft elevation above sea level

 

Driving Database Performance:

The Challenge

Today, getting database performance means adding disks, RAM, servers, and engineering resources, each of which unbalances already inefficient systems and increases both capital and operating costs. Today’s Enterprise SSDs imitate disk drive technology, slightly improving raw storage performance without resolving the core inefficiencies that impact database performance.

Poorly performing databases cause many problems including:

• Slow applications, resulting in customer and staff complaints or even lost sales
• Slow reporting and business intelligence queries, resulting in lost productivity, poor market awareness, or slow time-to-market
• DBA frustration rerunning overnight maintenance tasks that didn’t complete on time or that stopped during the night.

The Fusion-io Solution

Fusion’s ioMemory is a revolutionary NAND Flash-based memory tier that restores balance and efficiency to resources like DRAM, CPU, network bandwidth, and disk storage. It delivers unmatched performance to database servers, along with enterprise-grade reliability, all while dramatically reducing infrastructure needs.

Benefits of ioMemory products include:

• Highest IOPS and bandwidth with the lowest latency from a single device. Customer can easily expect:
  • 3-10x faster query processing
  • 3-10x faster replication
• Performance that scales linearly with more devices
• Ability to architect simple, elegant systems that dramatically reduce latency between data media, database applications, and applications using databases
• Times for batch jobs, including business intelligence, backup, and recovery processes reduced from hours to minutes, with the ability to run them during business hours
• Database integrity checks in a fraction of the time
• Strong data protection, with advanced error correction, non-volatile memory, onboard chip-level parity, and power-cut
• Eliminate wasted capacity and server real estate of disk arrays
• Eliminate mechanical failures and disk maintenance tasks with memory that lasts longer than its host server
• Slash power and cooling costs
• Best price/performance value on the market¹

Supported Databases

ioMemory products can be used for any database platform on supported operating systems, including the following.

• MS SQL SERVER 2005/2008
• MYSQL
• ORACLE
• SYBASE
• POSTGRES

What Makes ioMemory Different?

ioMemory is about much more than improving raw interface performance for archival storage. Its architecture is unique from all other solid-state technology offerings on the market today. Its NAND Flash acts like memory rather than disk, eliminating the complexity of traditional storage architecture that creates unnecessary context switching, deep queuing, and I/O storms. The end result is that Fusion-io products dramatically improve application performance, even dramatically out-performing RAIDed SSD-based storage arrays.

The following test, performed by Tom’s Hardware demonstrates this difference. Whereas, the ioMemory-based ioDrive delivers five times the performance of an SSD, it improves application performance 50 times.

A Look at the Numbers

As the graphs show, ioDrives offer significantly more performance at a much lower cost than even the most cost effective hard disk array.²

Fusion-io Best Practices

Moving the entire database to an ioDrive can deliver at least 3-10x improvement for databases with the following characteristics: Heavy simultaneous transactions Heavy read activity Large data-set movement Heavy write activity

The following components are good candidates to move to an ioDrive for an easy performance upgrade: Tempdb/Temp-file/TEMPFILE Indexes Frequently accessed tables Transaction/Redo logs Very large tables

The Green Solution

To date, getting more performance has meant increasing power and cooling year-after-year.

Fusion-io reduces each server’s power costs by 40%³ and cooling costs by double the power savings.⁴ Add to these savings the server compression that Fusion-io makes possible, and Fusion-io becomes one of the greenest moves any company can make.

Is Fusion-io Right For You?

Fusion-io is right for anyone who wants to:

• Improve database performance by at least 3-10x
• Run backups, recoveries, and batch jobs in minutes instead of hours
• Effectively address performance problems, end the cycle of continual performance evaluation and disk purchases
• Improve system reliability by reducing the number of failure points
• Implement unused features with high I/O impact like mirroring and replication to improve availability
• Significantly reduce the size of a scale-out database architecture

1 Fusion-io systems are continually and pervasively used in TPC-Hs top-ranked systems.
2 Testing performed for Fusion-io by Veritest.
3 According to the Information Business Technology Network, at least 40% of the power for a server with a performance disk array is consumed by the disks.
4 Cooling costs for servers double a server’s power consumption. See Estimating Total Power Consumption by Servers in the U.S. and the World. ioDrives have much lower cooling requirements than disks and also allow organizations to remove the hard drives, opening air flow within the chassis, significantly increasing cooling efficiency.