All flash architecture

Hi,
I am just a bit confused about the term 'all flash architecture'. What does this terms actually mean. Does it include sticking a SSD into a hard drive bay or does it refer to a specific faster, more permanent type of memory?
I notice the new models that have this 'all flash architecture' have a small chip instead of a 2.5" SSD, however it is still connected via a SATA connection. Is this faster than a normal SSD?

Just found this. It looks fairly normal

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All-Flash Storage: Accelerated Performance, Yes, but Is It Enterprise-Grade?

August 2015
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All-Flash Vendors Should Meet These Criteria
Here's our checklist to help you evaluate the enterprise-grade capabilities of all-flash storage solutions you may be considering. It helps you assess what you should be most concerned about as you invest in solid-state storage arrays for critical application environments.
Your enterprise should settle for no less.
AFF Enterprise-Grade Checklist
Performance
Audited performance benchmarks
Quality of service
Management Simplicity
Single pane-of-glass management
Seamless scale-out and scale-up
NAS and SAN
Data Protection / Security
Synchronous / asynchronous replication
Secure multi-tenancy
F2D2C integrated data protection
Application Integration
Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, VMware, Citrix
Veeam, Commvault, Veritas, TSM
OpenStack, CloudStack integration
When you've gone through the list, contact your NetApp sales rep or reseller to see if you qualify for our free All Flash FAS try-before-you-buy offer—it's a risk-free way to get a taste of what true enterprise-grade, all-flash storage has to offer.
Mike McNamara
Senior Manager, Product Marketing
NetApp
Sure, high performance and low latency matter. Business competition—relentless 24/7/365—demands that you coax maximum speed and responsiveness from key business operations. Faster time to market translates to greater customer satisfaction and competitive advantage.
That's why your forward-looking IT peers increasingly embrace all-flash storage: By speeding performance and reducing latency, flash accelerates business value—driving revenue, enhancing the customer experience, and reducing costs through consolidation.
But when it comes to all-flash storage solutions today, high performance and low latency are not enough. Your enterprise needs more.
Turn on a Dime—Without Compromise
In an enterprise context, "agility" refers to how well and rapidly a company can adapt to market and environmental changes—and do it in productive, cost-effective ways. Robust data management and enterprise-grade capabilities are key to staying on top of today's dynamic marketplace.
Accordingly, astute IT bosses are asking questions around all-flash storage solutions: How available is my data? How much flexibility do I have to move that data over its lifecycle? What about data protection? Does the solution offer native support for cloud?
In essence, they're saying, "Okay, Mr. Storage Vendor, you can accelerate my performance and reduce my latency. But can you wrap that in the enterprise-grade package that I need to run my business?"
NetApp® All Flash FAS (AFF) answers all these questions. It's an enterprise-grade storage solution.
Figure 1) Powered by clustered Data ONTAP, All Flash FAS is built for virtualized, shared environments requiring high performance plus robust data management.
Source: NetApp, 2015
Powered by Clustered Data ONTAP
Driving All Flash FAS is NetApp clustered Data ONTAP®, the #1 storage operating system (OS).* It's the foundation of the Data Fabric, our vision for the future of data management. We architected Data ONTAP to have enterprise-grade, unified, scale-out capabilities that deliver nondisruptive operations, storage and operational efficiency, and scalability over the lifetime of the system. Data ONTAP is the basis for virtualized shared storage infrastructures.
Backed by Data ONTAP FlashEssentials, AFF simplifies flash deployment, eliminates flash silos, accelerates database performance with 20x faster response times, and reduces your total cost of ownership. Enhanced native capabilities of the OS bring integrated inline efficiencies to AFF. These include newly enhanced compression, inline zero-block and always-on deduplication for 5x–10x average space savings.
All Flash FAS employs the Data ONTAP log-structured file system WAFL® (Write Anywhere File Layout). It's optimized for flash media to minimize latency, reduce wear, and maximize usable capacity. The solution's optimized write, read, and parallel processing results in consistent submillisecond latency and high performance.
Figure 2) Flash-optimized write architecture reduces latency and increases the longevity of SSDs.
Source: NetApp, 2015
Flash-to-Disk Agility
All Flash FAS supports live workload migration between flash and hard disk drive (HDD) tiers—on premises or in the cloud. As data characteristics and application environments change, data that's no longer performance-driven doesn't need to be in flash. All Flash FAS gives you the flexibility to move that data nondisruptively within the same cluster to other nodes that are just spinning media for cost-effective backup or archival for example—quickly and easily.
Flash-to-Cloud Data Protection
NetApp is the first all-flash system to support integrated snapshots and cloning to a software instance running on Amazon Web Services. You can move your data securely across your choice of clouds—enabled by Cloud ONTAP™ and NetApp Private Storage for Cloud.
Enterprise-grade Data Protection Delivers Resiliency
Industry-leading, advanced data protection technologies in AFF improve your resiliency. Core features include RAID DP, in-core checksums, lost write protection, read-after write verification, and media scans that verify that data written to the solid state drive (SSD) is written correctly and regenerated.
For enterprise-grade data availability, NetApp MetroCluster™ is the only high-availability and disaster recovery software integrated into an all-flash array. With MetroCluster, you recover from failures with zero data loss, maintaining continuous data availability for mission-critical applications—at half the cost and complexity of competitive solutions. All Flash FAS with MetroCluster is one of the only all-flash arrays that supports integrated synchronous mirroring with a single management view. And, according to Forrester Research estimates, organizations can achieve up to 143% return on investment (ROI) through MetroCluster.
NetApp SnapMirror® software replicates to any type of FAS system—all flash, hybrid, or HDD, on premises or in the cloud—reducing overall system costs.
Enhancements that improve SSD durability and life include metadata and user data that are coalesced in memory before being destaged intelligently to the SSD subsystem. This ability minimizes wear by reducing the amount of writes dispatched to the SSDs. Data is never overwritten in place and writes are striped across multiple SSDs, resulting in more even wear.
Furthermore, where other storage vendors compete, we partner. One road leads to vendor lock-in; the other leads to interoperability. Through strong data protection partnerships, All Flash FAS delivers integrated support for Veeam, Commvault, Veritas, and Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) solutions.
Leading Application Integration Covers All the Bases
Deep application integration sets All Flash FAS apart from other all-flash solutions on the market today.
Delivering tight assimilation with Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP, Citrix, VMware, and OpenStack and CloudStack environments, AFF streamlines your management and data protection chores—saving you time and cycles. Application-consistent backup and recovery is integrated and automated.
Storage Management Made Easy
All Flash FAS includes the NetApp OnCommand® family of management software for automated tools that further simplify management of storage operations. Setting up and configuring AFF typically takes less than 15 minutes leveraging preconfigured systems for SAN deployments. OnCommand Workflow Automation automates common storage tasks such as provisioning and data protection for environments such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
To optimize storage for peak performance and to keep everything running smoothly, OnCommand Performance Manager automatically monitors and analyzes performance. It's an integrated component of OnCommand Unified Manager.
With multiprotocol support—Fibre Channel (FC), FCoE, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, CIFS/SMB—AFF delivers a common look and feel across your entire heterogeneous enterprise. Network-attached storage (NAS) is especially useful for VDI workloads typical in Citrix XenDesktop and VMware Horizon View installations.
The Need for Speed
All Flash FAS accelerated performance enables server consolidation and can reduce database license costs by 50%.
In a recent SPC-1 benchmark, the All Flash FAS8080EX delivered 685,000 SPC-1 IOPS, ranking in the top 5. For database environments, AFF delivers 309K IOPS at 1ms latency for Oracle database 12c and 280K IOPS at 1ms latency for Microsoft SQL Server. VDI performance is equally impressive with 160K IOPS at ~1ms latency (80% write, 20% read).
Like every FAS controller, AFF supports all the same protocols and features as FAS hybrid arrays. This includes the ability to scale up and out to 8 nodes for FC, or 24 nodes for NAS. With multi-tenancy built in and quality of service to protect important workloads, All Flash FAS is more than capable of meeting the demands of enterprise IT—scaling up to 384TB all-flash capacity per high availability (HA) pair or up to 5PB all-flash capacity in a cluster.
Free Try Before You Buy
If you're evaluating all-flash storage arrays for your enterprise, you'll want to consider the questions in the All Flash Array Checklist for Enterprise Buyers (see sidebar, "All-Flash Vendors Should Meet These Criteria"). Compare NetApp AFF against all-flash storage solutions other vendors are offering. If their solutions don't meet these criteria, you will end up setting up a storage silo with all of the management challenges involved.
NetApp is currently offering a free All Flash FAS trial for qualified enterprises. It's a risk-free way to put all-flash storage performance with enterprise-grade capabilities through its paces in your own environment. Contact your NetApp sales rep or reseller to find out more
The NetApp AFF8000 product line delivers on all the elements in the checklist. Because yes, high performance and low latency matter—but for enterprise IT mavens, that's just the beginning.
*IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker 2015 Q1, June 2015 (Open Networked Disk Storage Systems revenue)
Mike McNamara, senior manager of product marketing at NetApp, has 25 years of storage and data management marketing experience. Prior to NetApp, Mike worked at Adaptec, EMC, and HP. He helped lead the launch of the industry's first unified scale-out storage system, iSCSI and SAS storage system, and Fibre Channel storage system. Mike is a former marketing chairperson for the Fibre Channel Industry Association, and current member of the Ethernet Technology Summit Conference Advisory Board and the Ethernet Alliance. He frequently contributes to industry journals and speaks at industry events.
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All Flash FAS Makes the Grade for Enterprise

As businesses strive to achieve faster time to market and greater customer satisfaction, they must improve the speed and responsiveness from key business operations. IT leaders recognize the benefits of all-flash storage for delivering consistent, low-latency I/O to critical workloads. The right all-flash storage can yield significant benefits for your business by accelerating applications, speeding up important decisions, and increasing the satisfaction of end users and customers. Flash must be enterprise-grade to reach its full potential, and the All Flash FAS (AFF) 8000 series which ships with Data ONTAP FlashEssentials innovations, is designed for the enterprise buyer.

Its about leveraging the right architecture and optimizing it for flash to deliver an enterprise grade solution to take flash main stream!

I have a HP Pavillion all-in-one with AMD processor running Windows 8.1 64 bit. Flash Player 16.0.0.235 with all current drivers. I'm consistantly experiencing a green sceen on all Flash Player videos but I have sound.

I have a HP Pavillion all-in-one with AMD processor running Windows 8.1 64 bit. Flash Player 16.0.0.235 with all current drivers. I'm consistantly experiencing a green sceen on all Flash Player videos but I have sound.

[discussion moved to Using Flash Player forum]

Netapp All-Flash FAS (AFF) – What Does This Mean?

by NetApp A-Team Member Glenn Dekhayser, Practice Lead, Office of the CTO, Red8
A bunch of my contemporaries have published excellent technical blogs on NetApp’s recent release of their All-Flash FAS systems and simultaneous massive reduction in the acquisition and support prices of those same systems. So there’s excellent new info on how great these platforms perform, and how their costs are now in-line (or better) than competitors who have been flash-focused for a while now. Assuming the performance is there (and based on performance numbers I’m seeing in real-world scenarios, it is), and those costs are well understood, does this development mean anything important to the storage or converged infrastructure market? You betcha.

If there are problems with updating or with the permissions then easiest is to download the full version and trash the currently installed version to do a clean install of the new version.
Download a new copy of the Firefox program and save the DMG file to the desktop
* Firefox 6.0.x: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
* Trash the current Firefox application to do a clean (re-)install
* Install the new version that you have downloaded
Your profile data is stored elsewhere in the Firefox Profile Folder, so you won't lose your bookmarks and other personal data.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox

Not all flash videos on websites work

Hi guys,
First off all, I'm really excited because I made the switch to Apple and Leopard. Yay! But I have one issue I can't figure out.
Not all flash videos on websites work, for example: www.x17online.com
Sometimes it's a blank square and sometimes I see an image but I can't play the video. I have flash installed so what's wrong?
Any help is appreciated!

Got a mbpro 2.4 multi touch, 2gb 250gb safari 3.1.x
Video glitches in flash in safari [not in ffox 2.x] !
The video:
http://www.symfony-project.org/screencast/cart
Seems like build up problems...

Is there a way to force enable wmode=direct for all Flash content on all webpages ?

I need a way to force enable wmode=direct for all Flash content that's running regardless of the webpage the Flash content is runing on.
If there isn't a way to do so now, please enable this as fast as you can in the next version of Flash.
I've read somewhere that if there's no wmode setting on the page like opaque, transparent, direct or hw the flash content will run in wmode=window setting so it would be very easy to change that and force Flash to use wmode=direct instead.
This could be done by adding wmode=direct line to mms.cfg or even add Force wmode=direct to Flash Settings, easy as that.
I really don't wanna hear the arguments why force enable wmode=direct for all Flash content regardless of webpage is not indicated to do, just do it, I really need this wmode=direct feature to be always on simple as that.
I know that on some webpages some content might run behind flash content by doing so but I really don't care cause I know what sites I'm using and what Flash content I'm runing so just enable it.
Waiting for all websites to implement wmode=direct would take ages and I don't have time to waste instead I wanna enable this feature by now since I have seen what a big difference it makes by runing Flash accelerated instead of software decoding.

You will not get what you need using stamps, especially if you ever want to use dynamic XFA forms.
The digital signatures that were signed with a self-signed digital ID won't fully validate unless the user chooses to trust the corresponding digital certificate first. You should only trust a digital certificate if you trust its source. The problem is using self-signed IDs will be difficult to use on the scale you're talking about.
Digital signatures are the best approach for your needs. They can provide both nonrepudiation of document origin as well as document integrity. You just have to figure out how to implement a solution you can afford.
You agency can become its own certificate authority and issue certificates to its employees. You'd just have to find a way to implement and manage such a system.

Right clicking on a flash object causes all flash objects to crash

whenever I attempt to right click on a flash movie or other flash based object the flash plugin crashes and takes all flash objects including those in other tabs with it. There does not seem to be any other problems with the plugin just that it crashes when an attempt is made to right click on any flash object.

Try to create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.
See "Creating a profile":
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Profile_issues
If the new profile works then you can transfer some files from an existing profile to the new profile, but be cautious not to copy corrupted files to avoid carrying over the problem.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
You can check for problems with current Flash plugin versions and try these:
*disable a possible RealPlayer Browser Record Plugin extension for Firefox and update the RealPlayer if installed
*disable protected mode in the Flash plugin (Flash 11.3+ on Windows Vista and later)
*disable hardware acceleration in the Flash plugin
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Flash#Troubleshooting

How to fix green screen on all flash videos

Getting a green screen with audio on all flash videos, ranging from EI 11, Google Chrome, and Steam. Running windows 8.1 with all recent drivers and updates. Have tried enabling/disabling hardware acceleration, using software rendering instead of gpu rendering. This has been happening for many months and I still have not been able to find a solution. Have viewed many forums and have tried many solutions with no success. Any help appreciated.

Be sure to try a Reset first
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1320
This "reboots" the iPod. If that does not help, try doing a Restore on the iPod in iTunes (from the iPod's Summary tab). This erases the iPod, re-installs its software, and sets it to default settings.
If that does not help, the cause is likely to be a hardware problem.

Quicktime 7.1.6 update caused QT to override all Flash plugins in Safari

After updating Quicktime Pro 7.1.5 to 7.1.6 I have found Quicktime is now overriding all Flash plug-in content in Safari. I tried re-installing Flash, but it didn't work. All I get in any Flash plug-in site is a Quicktime logo with a question mark over it. I also tried re-updating Quicktime, but no luck.
The update was yesterday, and I haven't done any software changes lately. Prior Quicktime updates have not caused any problem.
This is the first time an automatic update has caused a problem.
Apple customer support wants $49.95 to solve this even though it is their update that caused the problem.
I haven't found any way to reset/edit Safari plug-ins
Any ideas on how to solve this?

Hi,
This issue is being discussed in this thread
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=946194&tstart=0
I have the same issue on both my Intel and PPC macs - I have set quicktime to be the default for flash and that appears to have fixed some of the issues, however I still get the big "?" where my enhanced podcasts were?
Everything works fine in firefox though.
This is a great way to 'fix" a security flaw in quicktime/safri - by disabling its use.
B!

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FF 4 (mac) doesn't display handcursor in all Flash websites. Also all html websites show strange behaviour with cursor. (blinking cursor in nearby div after clicking a button)

I'm running Mac OS 10.6
FF4 doesn't display the hand cursor or type cursor in '''all''' flash websites on links/textfieldss when it should. Highly annoying and disgracing all flashcontent.
Also with html websites I experienced strange cursor behaviour with FF4. Although it's hard to reproduce the problem. It's very inconsistent.
I have the feeling in general FF4 should look into it's cursor behaviour on all possible platforms. Mainly Flash.

I replicated the typing cursor problem on the popular FB. Just click e.g. "x people like this", you'll see you get a blinking type cursor in the "close" button.

Convert all-Flash site into html?

I have an all-flash site (www.CBRTA.org). For the benefit of
certain clients who won't install the Flash plugin, I have to
create a mirror html site. Does anyone know how I go about
converting an all-Flash site into html? And quickly? I have access
to Dreamweaver 8 and Flash 8.

Sorry... unless you've separated the content out already,
like into a
database, you're going to need to cut/paste etc... there's no
easy way if
the site is all inside of Flash.
Dave -
Head Developer
www.blurredistinction.com
Adobe Community Expert
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

Firefox has trouble with all flash applications

My favorite forum website recently dropped support for IE. This specific reason, is the ONLY reason I stopped using IE. Firefox has a much closer resemblance to IE than chrome, and this is the ONLY reason I chose it over chrome.
Everything works fine, except every and all flash applications.
Youtube, animated ads, games... everything causes huge cpu load spikes and lags like crazy (I'm sure it would cause a crash on a basic computer). I have a very high end rig, the problem is not my hardware, or internet speed (100mbs). It is entirely fire fox.
All flash apps work FINE on IE/chrome, I tested them. Please offer support, thank you.

Crashes or other problems with certain multimedia content in Firefox (such as Youtube videos and Flash animations or games) can often be resolved by performing the steps in these Knowledge Base articles:
* [[Flash Plugin - Keep it up to date and troubleshoot problems]]
* [[Flash 11.3 crashes]]
* [[Flash 11.3 doesn't load video in Firefox]]
On Windows Vista and above, you can disable Flash protected mode by following the instructions on these pages:
* http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1018071#TemporaryWorkaround
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Flash#Disabling_Protected_Mode_in_Flash_11.3
(See [http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2012/06/inside-flash-player-protected-mode-for-firefox.html this Adobe blog post] for technical details about Flash protected mode.)
For recent updates for Adobe Shockwave Flash, please update your version to 14.
Please refer to the security updates [http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-18.html and Adobe Security Bulletin] for more information.


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