Understand Your workloads first
Deciding the best AFA, HFA, or ADA vendor/product for your specific application workloads is the not an easy decision. The key to successfully deploying flash is to fully understand the workload performance requirements before making purchase or deployment decisions. The only way to make intelligent decisions is to use workload modeling and storage performance validation solutions from companies like Load Dynamix. Every workload will perform differently on each vendor's products. For example, the vendor's implementations of dedupe and compression can impact flash storage response times by a factor of 3X or more. Storage performance validation tools give you the data to make educated decisions on flash and hybrid deployments
Biting the hand that feeds IT
