You use the Flash Accel Management Console (FMC) 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.
You can use the Flash Accel command line interface, called the Advanced Management Terminal (AMT), to monitor the status of the FMC, change the network interface for the FMC VM, manage AutoSupport, and perform other system management tasks. For virtual machines, you can use Flash Accel PowerShell cmdlets from the command line or in scripts to configure and monitor caching.
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.
Flash Accel offers a rich set of cache metrics that you can use to determine how much server-side caching is increasing the performance of your storage system. You may find the graph of historical performance especially helpful.
Refreshing a resource updates its details in the FMC database.
Discovering a resource gives
Flash Accel access to it. Refresh and discovery are combined in the daily autorefresh you can schedule in the
Console Settings >
Discovery tab. They are also combined whenever you perform a
Discover All.
The Flash Accel Management Console records all console interactions and
Flash Accel software operations. You can customize the logging level so that
Flash Accel logs only errors or only errors and warnings. You can export log messages to a file.