topic Use FlexCache to scale up databases? in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Use-FlexCache-to-scale-up-databases/m-p/8169#M1815 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>In Ontap 7.3.2, FlexCache is able to do block-based synchronization.&nbsp; Is there any way to leverage this feature to scale up a database in environments that require huge amount of database updates?&nbsp; thx</P><P></P><P></P><P>wl </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:14:35 GMT lwendell 2025-06-05T07:14:35Z Use FlexCache to scale up databases? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Use-FlexCache-to-scale-up-databases/m-p/8169#M1815 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>In Ontap 7.3.2, FlexCache is able to do block-based synchronization.&nbsp; Is there any way to leverage this feature to scale up a database in environments that require huge amount of database updates?&nbsp; thx</P><P></P><P></P><P>wl </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:14:35 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Use-FlexCache-to-scale-up-databases/m-p/8169#M1815 lwendell 2025-06-05T07:14:35Z Re: Use FlexCache to scale up databases? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Use-FlexCache-to-scale-up-databases/m-p/8174#M1817 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi and welcome to the Communities! <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="happy" __jive_macro_name="emoticon" class="jive_macro jive_emote" src="https://community.netapp.com/4.0.6/images/emoticons/happy.gif"></SPAN></P><P></P><P>Flex Cache is a write-through cache, so it doesn't help with write performance at all.</P><P></P><P>Block-based synchronization simply means that if a file at the origin system is updated, only changed blocks are sent to the FlexCache system, instead of updating entire file.</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Radek</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 10 May 2010 20:55:31 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Use-FlexCache-to-scale-up-databases/m-p/8174#M1817 radek_kubka 2010-05-10T20:55:31Z