IBM System Storage N series Software Guide

FlexCache volumes

This chapter provides an introduction to FlexCache, a feature of Data ONTAP that implements file caching for NFS environments.

The following topics are covered:

•Caching

•FlexCache Reads

•FlexCache Write

•Caching Granularity

7.1 Introduction

FlexCache is a caching technology that provides a cache architecture at the storage protocol layer. Similar to the way a cache in the memory architecture of a compute system improves performance, FlexCache improves performance in your NFS environments by scaling out cache volumes for increased ...