I just found the copy of a deck I used during the interview process at Infinio. It focuses on the unique downloadable nature of Infinio's storage acceleration product. I think some others would be curious about the product as well as the simply slide design for an interview. Enjoy!
7. “ There are few
products that are this
awesome and easy to
deploy.”
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8. Dashboard
Set t ings
STORAGE BOOST (In 1 Drives)
5k
+ 20
View benefits over the last:
DATASTORES
Datastore
1 Hour
Response Time Improved
Requests Offloaded
56% (968 Req/s)
45ms avg. for cache misses
of 1,728 req/s total
of 10.7 Mb/s total
2.3x (21m s avg. RT)
24% (1,321 Req/s)
30% (3.3 Mb/s)
45ms avg. for cache misses
An equivalent boost of
of 5,504 req/s total
of 10.7 Mb/s total
Disable Acceleration
A peak equivalent boost of
20 disk drives on Aug 1, 1-2am .
26 disk drives on Aug 15, 2-3pm .
24 Hours
25% (2.6 Mb/s)
us-corp-lab-vm dat a
Great est boost achieved
Logout
Bandwidth Saved
3.0x (15m s avg. RT)
+ 26
At busiest workload t im e
Status: OK (offloading 845 req/s)
us-corp-lab-vm dat a02
Set Your Busiest Time
REQUESTS OFFLOADED
24 Hrs
14 Days
Disable Acceleration
16 Wks
Req/s Offloaded
6000 Req/s
3000
0
6p
12a
6a
12p
100%
85%
NO HERO NUMBERS
Rolling Offload Percentage
Rolling Offload Trend
0%
0%
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Infinio at its heart is downloadable storage performance to accelerate NAS storage in your VMware environment
What does it mean to have downloadable performance? It starts by talking about what Infinio is not – it’s not new hardware. We have a single executable that runs, speaks to your vCenter Server and shows immediate improvement on read performance from installation on forward.
So let’s take a step back and recall why this may of use: storage is, yes, capacity – GBs & TBs – but it’s also performance – how much IO per second your application can crunch.
Storage is also a zero sum system: it only has so many IOPS it can crunch at one time and Infinio works to remove a significant portion of it.
Here’s what we do: we deploy a distributed cache through VMs on each of your hosts accessing NFS datastores you wish to accelerate. You do so through an incredible simple installer you’ll see later on. During the installation, we non-disruptively configure virtual switching to plumb between your NAS and your VM traffic. From that point forward, all NFS storage that is written will write through the Infinio Cache and all reads will first try to be provided by that cache. If it hasn’t been seen yet, the request will hit the datastore. Any content – not addresses, but content – that does so will then be read from the Infinio Cache in the future. Now that will drastically reduce the amount of read IO requests that hit your datastore, which means less IOPS hitting your shared resource.
Deployment takes 9 clicks in the most automated and transparent user experience you could ask for.
How good? Check out this quote from Eric Wright, blogger, contributor to vBrownBags, tweeted @InfinioSystems Nov 4th.
Infinio at its heart is downloadable storage performance to accelerate NAS storage in your VMware environment