Infinio is a no-brainer if you still have spinning disks and need better read latency performance.
Rating: 10 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Infinio on our VMware clusters to accelerate the read IO from our different workloads across our data center environments. We have had traditional spinning disk storage for the majority of time I have worked here, and Infinio has functioned as a great gap fill while we modernize into solid state storage at a gradual pace.
Pros
- Citrix system boot time and application opening much faster
- SQL database efficiency
Cons
- The interface needs a way to allow for RBAC so everyone is not an admin.
- Alerts should be configurable whenever a VM or host is not functioning correctly.
Likelihood to Recommend
Infinio is best suited for infrastructure that has high-latency read IO performance challenges. It does nothing to help write IO, so keep in mind the type of workload for which you need to reduce latency.
If you have traditional SAS or SATA storage, Infinio has a tremendous impact on the response time of many applications. You can build your cluster's caching pool from either available RAM or an internal drive inside each host. This flexibility helps Infinio to be suitable across many types of environments.
If you have traditional SAS or SATA storage, Infinio has a tremendous impact on the response time of many applications. You can build your cluster's caching pool from either available RAM or an internal drive inside each host. This flexibility helps Infinio to be suitable across many types of environments.