You can use the Flash Accel Management Console to administer caching across vCenter hosts and virtual machines. The FMC offers convenient tools for cache configuration and monitoring, resource discovery, bulk operations, and user management. For virtual machines, you can use the
Flash Accel PowerShell cmdlets from the command line or in scripts to configure and monitor caching.
The Flash Accel Management Console is a browser-based graphical user interface that offers convenient access to tools you use to configure and monitor caching on vCenter resources. You can use the FMC to enable caching on virtual machines and disks, set the cache mode and size, refresh resources, manage user accounts, and collect cache metrics.
The cache mode determines how storage reads and writes are serviced from cache. You can use Write Thru mode for read and write caching, Write Around mode for read caching only, and Pass Thru mode when you want to keep the cache "warm" without performing caching. You set the cache mode on both the disk and the virtual machine on which the disk is configured.
You need to update, or refresh , resources in the
Flash Accel Management Console when their details change. You may have installed a new flash device on a host, for example. You need to give
Flash Accel access to, or
discover, resources on which you want to configure caching. You may have added a host or virtual machine to your vCenter since last performing discovery, for example. Refresh and discovery are combined in the daily refresh you schedule in the
Console Settings >
Discovery Settings tab.
The Flash Accel Management Console records all console interactions and
Flash Accel software operations.