eBay Deploys 100TB of SSDs, Cuts Rackspace By Half

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 2, 2011 @07:22PM from the go-big-or-go-home dept.

Lucas123 writes "eBay's QA division was facing mounting performance issues related to its exponential growth of virtual servers, so instead of purchasing more 15k rpm Fibre Channel drives, the company began migrating over to a pure SSD environment. eBay said half of its 4,000 VMs are now attached to SSDs. The changeout has improved the time it takes the online site to deploy a VM from 45 minutes to 5 minutes and had a tremendous impact on its rack space requirements. 'One rack [of SSD storage] is equal to eight or nine racks of something else,' said Michael Craft, eBay's manager of QA Systems Administration."

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Re:Is this a Slashvertisement? by erroneus · 2011-08-02 21:30 · Score: 2, Funny

I don't know, but I would be checking ebay for a butt-load of cheap 15k fiber channel drives for sale there.
Re:Zero details by Monoman · 2011-08-02 21:33 · Score: 3, Funny

"We're not a storage team. We're Windows administrators who got into virtualization ... "

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