S3700 and S3500 Solid-State Drives in the eXFlash Solution

Ensuring that business-critical data is available when needed is an ever-growing need in IT. Your systems must store massive amounts of data quickly and retrieve it efficiently. Simultaneously, you must use new technologies that can improve efficiency and take advantage of these technologies within limited budgets.

One measure of growing efficiency in recent years is CPU processing power, which far exceeds growth in disk input/output (I/O). For this reason, disk I/O is often the reason for bottlenecks in high-performance applications.

The combination of the eXFlash unit and the S3700 MLC Enterprise or S3500 MLC Enterprise Value solid-state drives (SSDs) can help to close the performance gap between CPU compute power and storage I/O, providing cost-optimized performance for different types of storage-intensive applications.

This paper discusses server performance imbalance that can be found in typical application environments, and how to address this issue with the S3700 or S3500 SSD technology that can be utilized in the eXFlash solution to provide required levels of performance and availability for the storage-intensive applications.

Executive summary
Server performance
eXFlash technology
S3700 SATA MLC Enterprise SSDs for IBM System x
S3500 SATA MLC Enterprise Value SSDs for IBM System x
OLTP database deployment scenario
Video-on-demand deployment scenario
Conclusion

Related product families

Product families related to this document are the following:

• 4-Socket Rack Servers
• Drives
• Large Memory Capacity Servers