Kaminario K2 all-flash array gets you predictable, consistently high performing storage in physical and virtual environments.
Oracle by its nature performs far more I/O transactions than other applications. High latency or low throughput can result in significant I/O Wait resulting in poor database response times for end users.
Kaminario K2 all-flash array is the optimal solution for Oracle applications that are I/O bound and suffer from high I/O Wait. Kaminario K2’s superior performance, coupled with its high availability, is a compelling reason for companies to keep their most demanding production databases on Kaminario K2.
Below are examples of our success, showing wait times before and after implementing Kaminario K2, which resulted in an 85% increase in performance.
Allant loaded the data for the Oracle database and custom applications onto K2 and saw amazing results:
"With Kaminario developers and customers can now spend less time working around slower disk and latency concerns. This gives us more options when it comes to scheduling work and end user activity."
- John Feldkamp
- SVP, IT Services
- Allant Group
Critical to SQL Server Applications running on Microsoft SQL Server is I/O. High latency or low bandwidth can result in significant I/O Wait, resulting in poor database response times for end users.
Kaminario K2 all-flash arrays are the optimal solutions for SQL Server. Kaminario K2’s superior performance, coupled with its high availability, is a compelling reason for companies to keep their most demanding production databases on Kaminario K2.
The following is an example of the top four sys.dm_os_wait_stats non idle events taken before and after implementing Kaminario K2. Prior to Kaminario K2, I/O Wait is the dominated Wait event. By moving the database files and tempdb to Kaminario K2, an 8-fold improvement was experienced on the overall performance of the application.
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"We put all of our databases on the new Kaminario K2 and the results are amazing. Even with our databases doubling from 5 billion to 10 billion records, the K2 cut the entire processing time from 2 weeks to 3 days."
- Amir Doron
- Match and Merge Team Leader, Digital Trowel
Kaminario is a VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program member and its K2 all solid-state SAN storage solution has achieved VMware Ready™ status for Vmware ESXi 5.0. Kaminario’s K2 solid-state SAN storage eliminates I/O bottlenecks and dramatically reduces latency to accelerate critical business applications in VMware environments at a significantly lower cost and smaller footprint than legacy SAN storage. The Kaminario K2 is a leading enterprise-grade SAN storage specifically designed to take full advantage of modern flash solid-state drive (SSD) performance and scalability for the fast data access requirements of databases and applications running on VMware ESXi systems. As the VMware ESXi hypervisor enables IT managers to do more with their physical servers, the K2 SSD SAN enables them to get more out of their storage.
"We were looking for a storage solution with a reliable, high-availability architecture to handle our growing trade volume and improve our system utilization. The Kaminario K2 gave us the ability to process 150% more trading transactions while also freeing-up our system and storage resources. We see this as a huge benefit."
- Rafi Vasserman
- General Manager and EVP of Traiana R&D
Karminario’s K2 solution is 3-5 times faster than our closest competitor. We have been able to achieve performance of greater than 3 million IOPS and 56GB/s throughput on a single MLC-based all flash storage system.
Not only have we achieved leading performance for any enterprise storage system in the world, the performance is consistent and predictable for any mix of applications, workloads or use cases. This is critical for enterprise decision makers in planning and provisioning workloads. It also means that the Kaminario solution addresses all of the environments where storage performance is critical: OLTP, where latency is the big stumbling block; OLAP/DW, which demands high bandwidth; and virtualization, where IOPS is critical.
Kaminario K2 is built to scale both performance and capacity linearly. As performance or capacity requirements change within a given configuration, expansion is a hassle-free procedure. Additional nodes can be added, according to the required capacity and performance, all while keeping latency at a constant sub .3 ms level. K2 scales automatically to incorporate the new nodes and automatically redistributes a portion of the current data onto the new node, reating a well-balanced system. The scalable nature of K2 enables IT managers to consolidate applications such as databases onto a single K2 that normally would have been distributed across multiple servers.
For most enterprise environments, resilience is more important than performance. No matter how fast your storage performs, if you don’t have access to it, the downtime is destructive to your business. At Kaminario, high availability, non-disruptive operations and data protection are the backbone of our SPEAR architecture.
K2 hardware components are all redundant and ensure no single point of failure. Its built-in fast and reliable failover and recovery capabilities protect applications and databases from experiencing a significant interruption in data access and there is less than 25% performance degradation in the event of any system failure. Guaranteed.
K2 is optimized for flash resiliency and endurance, and back it up with a 7 year warranty for our flash drives. Also when K2 software requires an upgrade, it is done in a nondisruptive manner. There will be no interruption in system availability.
All hardware components in K2 are hot-swappable. If there is any failure, K2’s self-healing will automatically notify the systems administrator, In the meantime, K2 automatically accesses data from the internal backup flash without impacting application or database performance.
Kaminario’s K2 leverages its SPEAR architecture to provide administrators with a simple yet powerful, easy-to-use All-Flash Array, with best-in-breed, Enterprise-Class, management features.
With many other all-flash arrays, the cost of increased performance (vs. HDD-based storage) is a loss of important features – like redirect-on-write snapshots – or added complexity – like limited capacity and/or lack of automatic data distribution in case of expansion, need for performance tuning or manual optimization, etc.
With Kaminario, however, you need not make any of those compromises. You get:
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| Performance / Capacity Scaling | Scale-up or limited Scale-Out | True Scale-Out |
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| Workload Profiles | Limited range / purpose built for a specific workload |
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| Endurance | Typically 3 to 5 years of Flash Endurance warranty | 7 years of Flash endurance warranty |
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