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Flash Accel components
To provide a complete caching solution, Flash Accel software components are installed on VMware ESXi hosts and on virtual machines.
Flash Accel includes of the following components:
Flash Accel Management Console (FMC). This is the browser-based graphical tool you use to manage caching on virtual machines and ESXi hosts. It is installed on an ESXi host. Team members can use multiple instances of the FMC to manage resources on a single vCenter.
Flash Accel Host Agent. This is the software that manages the caching functionality on the ESXi hosts where you have installed flash devices. It is installed on each ESXi host.
Flash Accel Guest OS Agent. This is the software that manages the caching functionality on the virtual machines that are running the applications that will use the cache. It is installed on each VM.
It is recommended that you install the SSDs or PCIe cards on the ESXi hosts before installing Flash Accel software, but you can install flash devices afterwards.
The figure below shows where each of these software components resides.
The Flash Accel Management Console can be installed on one of the ESX servers where the applications reside, or it can be installed on a separate server.
Parent Topic: Introduction to Flash Accel


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