Comments on: Understanding MySQL Appliances and Hardware Acceleration http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7453/ Open Source, Open Standards Sat, 05 Oct 2013 13:48:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: jswanhart http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7453/#comment-6793 jswanhart Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7453/#comment-6793 <p>Once of the nice things about the Kickfire appliance is that you do get a real CentOS linux box (with root access) that plugs into the QPM (the external PCI-X module which houses the SQL chip and associated gigabytes of direct cache memory) and can run existing Linux applications, integrate with your existing infrastructure, etc.</p> <p>Of course, if you break the appliance at the Unix command line we can\'t support that - you\'ll have to restore it from the recovery DVD to get back to a working system. </p> Once of the nice things about the Kickfire appliance is that you do get a real CentOS linux box (with root access) that plugs into the QPM (the external PCI-X module which houses the SQL chip and associated gigabytes of direct cache memory) and can run existing Linux applications, integrate with your existing infrastructure, etc.

Of course, if you break the appliance at the Unix command line we can\’t support that – you\’ll have to restore it from the recovery DVD to get back to a working system.

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