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.
Important: Do not confuse the exadata smart flash cache with the flash cache option in Oracle database 11gr2 on solaris or linux. The âdatabase flash cacheâ is an extension to SGA to expand buffer cache area on the database server. But the exadata smart flash cache resides on the storage server to cache the frequently accessed data and speed up the read (also write with X3) operations by reducing disk IO(s).