Our company was blessed to be one of the few partners that were selected for early access into the alpha builds of Liquidware Labs new FLEX-IO product. Here is an excerpt of the email we sent to Jason Mattox CTO of Liquidware Labs hours after we received access to the beta.
Here’s my initial thoughts on FlexIO.
It’s so easy a cave man can do it. The very fact that all the settings are in the vapp settings makes this thing absolutely awesome. I have changed ip addresses on the vapp 4 or 5 times and it just boots right back up and works on the first shot.Performance was greater than 100x the performance of the disk I had in my servers. I went from 185.7 IOPS to 19057.22 IOPS. (screenshots below)
I have a desktop pool running on three hosts each running a flex-io appliance. It’s very snappy. Now… I wonder how stable it is?I’m running my flexIO appliance with the exact same specs as you. My servers have 144GB of ram with a 500GB SATA disk.
As for the comment of how stable is it… Well, that same datastore has been running since August of this year with no reboots and it still performs as expected. This is really a solid product!
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