The university is one of the largest schools in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system, which is the largest provider of higher education in Minnesota. A regional comprehensive university, St. Cloud State has more than 15,400 students and nearly 110,000 alumni.
The most basic difference between the two technologies is that Flash Cache is a PCI-e card (or cards) that sits in the NetApp controller, whereas Flash Pool are SSD drives that sits in NetApp shelves. This gives way to some important points.
Specifying the size of the Database Smart Flash Cache (in this case 50 Gbytes): Test Results To characterize the Database Smart Flash Cache feature, a number of tests were run using a synthetic Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workload on a Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 with a Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array attached.