Pivot3 Acuity: A High-Performance Hyperconverged Platform With Advanced QoS

If organizations can maintain predictable high performance that is prioritized by workload, they can deploy mixed applications on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) deployments to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and simplify management.

Pivot3 Acuity is an HCI platform that combines a high performance NVMe data path and multiple storage tiers with advanced, policy-based QoS to enable the consolidation of multiple, mixed application workloads.

Acuity performance QoS goes beyond simple capping of IOPS or throughput. Acuity QoS capabilities include:

• Five pre-set QoS policies that define minimum IOPS, throughput, and not-to-exceed response times
• I/O prioritization based on service-level designation (Mission-Critical, Business-Critical, Non-Critical)
• Real-time data placement on multiple storage tiers based on service-level designation
• Policies can be quickly changed in real time or scheduled to change to support an application’s high activity periods
• QoS data protection (snapshots, clones, and replication prioritized by service levels)

This ESG Lab Review documents validation of Pivot3 Acuity HCI, with NVMe PCIe flash-enabled high performance and policy-based quality of service (QoS) to maintain predictable, workload-prioritized high performance to support mixed application workloads.