Product Features / Benefits Nytro WarpDrive BLP4-400 Application Acceleration Card
The new family of LSI Nytro WarpDrive application acceleration cards is designed to offer high performance with low latency and a low CPU burden for efficient application acceleration. Their PCIe® host interface, industry standard drivers and small form factor make them more flexible and easier to integrate into today’s low profile, high performance system chassis
Features
- DuraWrite architecture
- Response times down to 50 microseconds
- Up to 238K transactions per second
- Average Write Amplification of 0.5
- Dynamic Overprovisioning
Benefits
- Optimized program cycles
- Extended endurance by 20x or more compared to standard controllers
- 100X faster than traditional spinning media
- Low host burden - No static CPU and memory overhead
- Lower space, power, cooling and management costs than traditional all HDD solutions
- Enterprise reliability
- Installs as single drive with no user configuration required, just plug-and-play
- Uses standard LSI drivers that are included in most OS distributions
- Global Service+ Program for 24x7 access to technical service for LSI Nytro products
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Product Specifications
| Product | Ordering Part Number | Description | Capacity | NAND | | LSI Nytro WarpDrive BLP4-400 | LSI00318 | Retail Kit with card, software and documentation | 400GB | eMLC | | Usable Capacity | 400GB | | Average Latency | < 50 microseconds | | End of Life Data Retention | >6 Months SLC, >3 months eMLC | | Interface | x8 PCI Express 2.0 | | Form Factor | Low Profile (half-length, MD2) | | Brackets included | Full height and low-profile brackets | | Environmental Compliance | RoHS, WEEE Halogen and lead free | | Product Health Monitoring | Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) commands, plus additional SSD monitoring | | Emission Compliances | CE mark, C-Tick mark, Canadian Compliance Statement, KCC, HF, Taiwan BSMI, Japan VCCI, and FCC Class B | | Environmental | Operational at 5 to 45 C | | Operating Systems | CentOS: 6 FreeBSD: 7.2, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2 RHEL : RHEL 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 6.0, 6.1 SSLES: 10SP1. 10SP2, 10SP4, 11SP1; Solaris 10U8, 10U9, 10U10, 11 (x86 & SPARC); VMware versions: 4.0 U2, 4.1 U1, 5.0; Windows versions: XP, Vista, 2003, 7; Windows Server: 2003 SP2, 2008 SP2, 2008 R2 SP1 |
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Product Brief (1)
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LSI Nytro WarpDrive Application Acceleration Cards
The new family of LSI Nytro WarpDrive application acceleration cards are designed to offer high performance with low latency and a low CPU burden, accelerating applications such as Web serving, data warehousing, data mining, online transaction processing and high-performance computing.
Version: May 2012
Size: 0.63M
Language: English
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May 24, 2012 |
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Case Study (2)
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Ustream Drives Social Broadcasting Servers to the Limit with LSI® 1.6TB Nytro™ WarpDrive® BLP4-1600 Card
Learn how Ustream integrated the Nytro WarpDrive BLP4-1600 card into their front end Video on Demand (VoD) systems to deliver 500,000 IOPS in a single server. Also, post the hyperlink title “Ustream Drives Social Broadcasting Servers to the Limit with LSI® 1.6TB Nytro™ WarpDrive® BLP4-1600 Card”
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Language: English
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Mar 18, 2013 |
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Leading Direct Marketer Increases Sales and Reduces Costs Through the Use of Deep Analytics with the LSI Nytro WarpDrive card
The Nytro WarpDrive card, which was 20% faster than any other PCIe solution it tested, gave GreenPower a 50% performance gain over the existing SSD implementation.
Version: June 2012
Size: 0.75M
Language: English
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Jun 27, 2012 |
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Compatibility Document (1)
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LSI Nytro WarpDrive Application Acceleration Cards Compatibility List
LSI Nytro WarpDrive Application Acceleration Cards Compatibility List
Version: May 2013
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Language: English
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May 03, 2013 |
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Product Guide (3)
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Storage Adapter Product Selector Guide
Storage Adapter Product Selector Guide
Version: December 2012
Size: 0.90M
Language: English
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Dec 03, 2012 |
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Storage Solutions Product Guide
Storage Solutions Product Guide 2012
Version: December 2012
Size: 2.98M
Language: English
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Dec 03, 2012 |
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LSI Nytro Application Acceleration Product Selector Guide
LSI Nytro application acceleration solutions are designed to be faster because they’re smarter. Through the intelligent use of solid-state storage technology, LSI enterprise storage solutions deliver high performance while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).
Version: December 2012
Size: 1.22M
Language: English
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Dec 03, 2012 |
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Product Sell Sheets (1)
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LSI Nytro WarpDrive Application Acceleration Card
The Nytro WarpDrive solid state application acceleration cards can help improve the performance of applications regardless of the mix of reads and writes, especially when combined with the optional Nytro XD solution.
Version: May 2012
Size: 0.84M
Language: English
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Jun 05, 2012 |
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Quick Installation Guide (1)
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LSI Nytro WarpDrive Card Quick Installation Guide
Version: v1.5
Size: 101.4K
Language: English
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May 15, 2012 |
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Release Notes (1)
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LSI Nytro WarpDrive Card Release Notes
Version: 1.6
Size: 263.0K
Language: English
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May 25, 2012 |
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Solution Brief (1)
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LSI and Proximal Data combine to increase virtual machine (VM) density by up to 300%
The LSI Nytro WarpDrive® PCIe® application acceleration card and Proximal Data® AutoCache™ software help reduce I/O bottleneck to allow servers to support more virtual machines, and helps IT managers significantly improve VM density and efficiency
Version: August 2012
Size: 0.64M
Language: English
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Sep 05, 2012 |
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User Guide (2)
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LSI Nytro WarpDrive Card Management Utility User Guide
Version: v 2.0, February 2013
Size: 266.8K
Language: English
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Feb 25, 2013 |
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LSI Nytro WarpDrive User Guide
LSI Nytro WarpDrive Application Acceleration Cards User Guide
Version: Version 1.7, January 2013
Size: 0.56M
Language: English
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Jan 24, 2013 |
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White Paper (8)
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Considerations for Using Solid-State Storage as an Intelligent Cache to Accelerate Applications
Solid-state disk (SSD) technologies are top of mind in most discussions of enterprise storage infrastructure today. Considerable attention has been focused on the idea of leveraging cost-effective, PCIe-attached solid-state memory to speed transaction processing, augment the speed and throughput of traditional hard disk drives, and reduce overall IT infrastructure power demand.
Version: May 2013
Size: 1.61M
Language: English
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May 14, 2013 |
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Increase Oracle Database Performance with the Nytro WarpDrive Card using the Smart Flash Cache Feature
This solution guide describes a reference architecture as a basis for planning and deploying PCIe® compatible flash storage, including several typical use case scenarios.
Version: March 2013
Size: 1.14M
Language: English
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Mar 08, 2013 |
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Managing the Data Deluge: Enhancing Big Data Analytics in Financial Services with Solid-State Storage (A UBM Techweb White Paper)
Learn how flash-based solutions, such as the LSI Nytro Application Acceleration Architecture, can help financial services users improve big data modeling capabilities to enable fast, compliant real-time decision making.
Version: 9/27/2012
Size: 0.91M
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Sep 28, 2012 |
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Improving Database Performance by Using the LSI Nytro Application Acceleration Solution with Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
Supporting high transaction rates with minimal response times is frequently a requirement for today's enterprise databases, but many Database Administrators (DBA) don't have the time to successfully tune the database to meet these requirements.
Version: May 2012
Size: 0.61M
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May 07, 2012 |
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Using DuraWrite™ Technology to Accelerate Flash Performance and Extend Write Lifetimes on the Nytro™ WarpDrive™ Application Acceleration Card
Using a patented and patent-pending technique, DuraWrite technology is designed to provide significant performance improvements over typical enterprise flash offerings
Size: 1.45M
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Apr 10, 2012 |
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Determining if an Application is I/O Bound
Based on flash memory technology, solid-state storage provides performance levels that are
much higher than hard disk drives (HDDs).
Version: April 2012
Size: 1.37M
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Apr 02, 2012 |
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Improving Database Performance by Using the LSI® Nytro™ MegaRAID® Application Acceleration Card for DAS
The Nytro MegaRAID card combines flash for performance and HDDs for economy. It integrates RAID protection, caching intelligence, and embedded flash on a single PCIe® card.
Version: April 2012
Size: 1.00M
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Apr 02, 2012 |
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Improving Database Performance by Using the LSI® Nytro™ XD Application Acceleration Solution with a Storage Area Network (SAN)
The LSI Nytro XD solution includes host-based software that is designed to detect hot spots of frequently accessed data on a SAN and cache them on a LSI Nytro WarpDrive™ application acceleration card for faster response times from databases.
Version: April 2012
Size: 1.49M
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Apr 02, 2012 |
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Webinar (5)
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Boost Oracle® Database Performance with LSI Nytro Application Acceleration Solutions
Learn how LSI market segment leading flash technology can dramatically improve database performance. This webinar discusses how to take advantage of Oracle Smart flash Cache, how to meet performance SLAs during constant data growth and how to get up to a 10x improvement in performance, while reducing overall costs.
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May 01, 2013 |
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Delivering on the Promise of Virtual Desktop Infrastructures
Learn how flash and flash caching solutions can be used to navigate a complex set of VDI requirements, optimize investment in VDI environments and serve custom desktop images to individual end users while retaining central gold master control.
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Jan 24, 2013 |
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Optimizing MS SQL 2012 for Performance and Availability with LSI Nytro Products
Learn how to use flash technology to increase performance and reduce the response times of MS SQL databases and discover how to get more from your existing infrastructure to save on capital expenditures.
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Dec 14, 2012 |
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Cloud Acceleration Done Just Right
Learn how hot data, cold data and intelligent caching can benefit your applications and accelerate your virtual environments
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Nov 09, 2012 |
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Intelligent Flash: Helping Enterprise Apps Run Faster
Helping Enterprise Apps Run Faster Enterprise datacenters are combining flash storage with existing servers to create cost-effective, yet extremely reliable and powerful, solutions to dramatically increase I/Os. Based on a study of flash usage, this webcast will delve into the growing impact of flash on enterprise IT and what it means for business applications, such as: virtualization, big data analytics, and databases (SQL, Oracle, etc).
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Driver (14)
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Nytro WarpDrive Driver ESX 4.x v09.00.00.00
PVSP VMWare driver for ESX4.x
Size: 0.62M
Language: English
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Jan 10, 2013 |
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Nytro WarpDrive Driver Windows XP v07.00.00.00
Size: 0.58M
Language: English
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May 28, 2012 |
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Nytro WarpDrive Driver Windows7 v07.00.00.00
Size: 1.17M
Language: English
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May 28, 2012 |
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Nytro WarpDrive Driver Windows Server 2008R2 v07.00.00.00
Size: 0.58M
Language: English
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May 28, 2012 |
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Nytro WarpDrive Driver Windows Vista v07.00.00.00
Size: 1.17M
Language: English
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May 28, 2012 |
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Nytro WarpDrive Driver SLES11 v07.00.00.00
Size: 14.84M
Language: English
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May 15, 2012 |
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Nytro WarpDrive Driver Windows Server 2003 v07.00.00.00
Size: 1.15M
Language: English
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May 28, 2012 |
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Nytro WarpDrive Driver Windows Server 2008 v07.00.00.00
Size: 1.17M
Language: English
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May 28, 2012 |
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Nytro WarpDrive Driver RHEL5 v07.00.00.00
Size: 47.40M
Language: English
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May 15, 2012 |
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Nytro WarpDrive Driver RHEL6 v07.00.00.00
Size: 8.06M
Language: English
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May 15, 2012 |
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Nytro WarpDrive Driver SLES10 v07.00.00.00
Size: 14.10M
Language: English
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May 15, 2012 |
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Nytro WarpDrive Driver OEL5 v07.00.00.00
Size: 24.78M
Language: English
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May 15, 2012 |
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Nytro WarpDrive Driver OEL6 v07.00.00.00
Size: 14.05M
Language: English
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May 15, 2012 |
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Nytro WarpDrive Driver FreeBSD v07.00.00.00
Size: 355.4K
Language: English
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May 15, 2012 |
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Firmware (2)
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NWD BLP4 400 FW Update Package v08.00.00.00
Size: 1.52M
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Nov 21, 2012 |
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NWD BLP4 400 FW Update Package v07.00.01.00
Size: 1.51M
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May 15, 2012 |
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Management Software and Tools (6)
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Nytro WarpDrive Management Utility
Size: 2.65M
Language: English
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May 15, 2012 |
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MegaRAID Storage Manager - Linux 64 bit - 5.6
MegaRAID Storage Manager
Version: 13.01.04-00
Size: 63.48M
Language: English
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Linux x64 |
Mar 02, 2013 |
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MegaRAID Storage Manager - Linux 32 bit - 5.6
MegaRAID Storage Manager
Version: 13.01.04-00
Size: 68.17M
Language: English
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Linux x86 |
Mar 02, 2013 |
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MegaRAID Storage Manager - Solaris 10 - 5.6
MegaRAID Storage Manager
Version: 12.05.03-00
Size: 75.38M
Language: English
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Solaris 10 x86 |
Mar 02, 2013 |
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MegaRAID Storage Manager - Solaris 11 - 5.6
MegaRAID Storage Manager
Version: 13.01.04-00
Size: 76.75M
Language: English
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Solaris 11 x86 |
Mar 02, 2013 |
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MegaRAID Storage Manager - Windows - 5.6
MegaRAID Storage Manager
Version: 13.01.04-00
Size: 68.47M
Language: English
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Windows |
Mar 02, 2013 |
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Even after you have added SSDs to your SAN or direct-attached storage, you are still disappointed with your application performance. You would like to use PCIe connected flash for the lowest latency, but how can you retain use your existing storage investment?
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