NetApp Flash Accel is a server-side cache. It turns a server flash device, which can include SSDs and PCIe flash memory cards, into cache on the server for back-end
NetApp Data ONTAP storage systems. Application writes are written to the cache, as well as to the back-end storage, so that future application reads can be serviced from the cache instead of from the storage system.
Flash Accel caches application read requests in the server flash device after the data is provided to the client from
NetApp storage systems. It also provides a write-through cache, which reduces latency, increases server throughput, and offloads IOPS from back-end storage, thereby increasing both server and storage efficiency.