During the VNX Roadshow event in Greensboro today, we decided to fire up FAST Cache, create a FAST Cache enabled pool, carve out a LUN, and blast it by provisioning 100 virtual desktops with VMware View.

Backing the pool was ten 10K SAS drives. Calculated out with a base of 150 IOPS per drive, you'd expect to see a maximum of 1500 IOPS (not calculating any RAID-related penalties). Utilizing FAST Cache, these are the numbers we were able to drive-- tiger blood!

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