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July 2011
LSI MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 SOFTWARE
Software License LSI00293; Compatible with MegaRAID SAS 9260-4i, 9260-8i, 9261-8i, 9260-16i, 9280-4i4e, 9280-8e, 9280-16i4e, 9280-24i4e
Physical Key LSI00292: Compatible with MegaRAID SAS 9260-4i, 9260-8i, 9260-16i, 9280-4i4e, 9280-16i4e, 9280-24i4e
Operating Systems All operating systems supported by MegaRAID controller card
Supported SSDs Please visit www.lsi.com/channel for a complete list of tested SSDs
Max number of SSDs in a CacheCade SSD pool 32
Max number of SSC VD supported per controller Up to 64 (The total # of HDD VDs plus CacheCade VDs must not exceed 64)
Max CacheCade capacity per controller 512GB
Cost Eective Application Acceleration
CacheCade Pro 2.0 software offers the perfect combination of HDD
capacity and SSD speed. CacheCade Pro 2.0 software is designed to
improve the performance of a server’s existing drive volume(s) by,
dynamically utilizing SSDs as a dedicated pool of RAID controller cache
to maximize random read and write performance.
Manual storage management and in-house application tuning costs
can be avoided with CacheCade Pro 2.0 software, lowering the total
cost of storage ownership for datacenters and small-to-medium busi-
nesses.
Application Acceleration Across Business Critical Workloads
CacheCade Pro 2.0 software is the industry’s first software solution that
offers both read and write controller-based caching on SSDs, dramati-
cally enhancing the performance gains achieved by the previous
generation CacheCade software. With the addition of write caching
support, read/write-intensive workloads such as Exchange server,
high performance computing (HPC) applications, Web 2.0 and other
IO-intensive OLTP database system workloads, experience dramatic
performance improvements.
CacheCade Makes Applications Faster
356%
1251%
374%
533%
77%
150%
5%
163%
TPC-E
Microsoft SQL
Server
Neoload
Web Server
Simulation
SysBench
MySQL OLTP
Server
Jetstress 2010
Microsoft
Exchange
% improvement of HDD array with SSD
cache pool using MegaRAID controller
and CacheCade 1.1 over HDD array
using MegaRAID controller
% improvement of HDD array with SSD
cache pool using MegaRAID controller
and CacheCade Pro 2.0 over HDD array
using MegaRAID controller