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.
Using Virtual Flash Resource to Configure a Swap Cache. You can use virtual flash resource on an ESXi host to configure a swap cache. The host swap cache is allocated from a portion of the virtual flash resource. You can create VMFS datastores on Solid State Disks (SSD), and then use these datastores to allocate space for host cache.