Cachecade; Cachecade Virtual Disk Characteristics - Dell PowerEdge RAID H700 User Manual

CacheCade

The Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H700 and H800 cards support
CacheCade, a feature that can improve application performance by
increasing read caching capacity. The CacheCade feature makes use of high-
performing solid state disks (SSDs) as a secondary tier of cache. CacheCade
provides faster reads and maximizes transactional I/O performance.
The use of SSDs for caching allows a large quantity of data to be present in
the cache, resulting in performance improvement in read-intensive
applications. Some examples of read-intensive applications include online
transaction processing (OLTP), file server, and web server workloads.
CacheCade allows for an increase in the I/O performance of hard disk drive
(HDD)-based disk groups with the assistance of SSD technology.

CacheCade Virtual Disk Characteristics

The CacheCade feature has the following characteristics:
• Support for CacheCade virtual disks exists only on controllers containing 1
GB of Non-Volatile (NV) Cache.
• CacheCade virtual disks can only be created with SSDs.
• The maximum combined size of CacheCade virtual disks is 512 GB.
NOTE:
Multiple CacheCade virtual disks may be created, but they are
combined to operate as a single cache pool up to the maximum size.
• Data on virtual disks containing secured Self-Encrypting Disks (SEDs) or
SSDs will not be cached by CacheCade.
NOTE:
Data on VDs with unsecured SEDs can be cached using CacheCade.
• CacheCade virtual disks will only cache input reads that are smaller than
64 KB.
• CacheCade virtual disks are read cache only.
• CacheCade virtual disks will not migrate to a controller that does not
support CacheCade.
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