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.
A typical sizing of the Database Smart Flash Cache is two to ten times the size of SGA memory. buffers. Note that header information is stored in the SGA for each flash cache buffer -100 bytes per. buffer in exclusive mode, 200 bytes per buffer in RAC mode -so the number of available SGA buffers. is reduced as the Database Smart Flash Cache size increases, and the SGA size should be increased. accordingly.