You use the Flash Accel Management Console (FAMC) to administer caching across vCenter hosts and virtual machines.
The FAMC 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 FAMC, change the network interface for the FAMC VM, 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 by
Flash Accel. You can use Write Thru mode for caching reads and writes, Write Around mode for caching reads only, and Pass Thru mode when you want to keep the cache "warm" without inserting into or reading from the cache. 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
FAMC 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 also export log messages to a file.
The Flash Accel Management Console uses the configuration information you specify to connect to the hosts and VMs in your vCenter. You can save this information to a file, for import into a new
FAMC version.
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