Solutions for Databases
Deliver optimal IOPS for virtualized databases.
No sophisticated tuning required.
Tintri VMstore delivers aggregate IOPS to meet the requirements of demanding database workloads, without the cost or complexity of general-purpose storage solutions. Databases are among the most demanding applications to virtualize, and infrastructure is often overprovisioned to guarantee performance. Enterprises need the flexibility VMs offer — like the ability to quickly create a test database instance with real data by simply cloning the VM.
The expense and complexity of virtualizing databases can stall projects that rely on traditional shared storage. It takes extensive planning and costly storage to provide the right levels of performance and availability across multiple database instances. The storage, virtualization and database teams must coordinate closely — and spend precious hours — to architect the entire system and maintain service levels.
Database requirements can create hurdles in a virtual environment: A single database instance often has different quality-of-service requirements across components. For example, the log file is latency sensitive, while the index generates high levels of random I/O. The data can usually be placed on a lower tier — the overall access pattern is less demanding. Traditional storage requires one of two approaches:
- Put each virtual disk on a separate datastore, each of which maps to different tiers of storage
- Create a single gold-plated tier of storage for all the database components
Tintri VMstore automatically monitors the virtual disks and provides performance to database components that demand it — all within a single datastore. The direct connection between VM, virtual disk and storage components makes it easier to quickly identify and meet performance requirements.