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89 Fifth Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY 10003 www.TheE 212.367.7400 White Paper HP 3PAR Adaptive Flash Cache: A Competitive Comparison Printed in the United States of America Copyright 2014 Edison Group, Inc. New York. Edison Group offers no warranty either expressed or implied on the information contained herein and shall be held harmless for errors resulting from its use. All products are trademarks of their respective owners. First Publication: October 2014 Produced by: Chris M. Evans, Senior Analyst; Manny Frishberg, Editor; Barry Cohen, Editor-in-Chief Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 Introduction 2 Objective 2 Audience 2 Contents of this Report2 Data Caching in Primary Storage 3 Cache Versus Tier 3 Method of Operation 3 The Long Tail 4 Using SSD to Mitigate Cost 4 HP 3PAR Adaptive Flash Cache: Deep Dive 5 How Adaptive Flash Cache Works 5 Competitive Analysis 7 EMC VNX and VNX2 7 NetApp Data ONTAP 9 Nimble Storage CASL 11 Conclusions and Recommendations 12 References 13 Executive Summary Data caching is a technique used by storage array vendors to improve application I/O performance on systems deployed with hard-disk drives (HDDs). A cache stores commonly accessed data in fast system memory (such as DRAM), serving both read and write I/Os to the host and reducing the requirement to service requests from physical spinning disk. A cache holds a copy of data, with the original remaining on spinning media, also known as the backing store). This contrasts with tiering where data exists in only one place. System DRAM is an expensive commodity and as only a portion of data typically generates the majority of I/O, DRAM is sized to the workload requiring acceleration. However application workloads are variable and insufficient DRAM has a direct impact on both the stora