Kralendijk, Caribbean Netherlands. August 1,2022. Bonaire, a municipality of the Netherlands, is a beautiful island in the Caribbean. Their public utilities department, Water- en Energiebedrijf Bonaire N.V. a.k.a Webbonaire, is a customer of VirtuCache. They use VirtuCache to improve the performance of their Scada applications, which run in VMware VMs…
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SYNOLOGY: CHEAP AND VMWARE READY Synology storage arrays have a few things going for them, they are one of the most reasonably priced storage arrays on the market that are also certified as ‘VMware Ready’ by VMware. HIGH LATENCIES IN SYNOLOGY WHEN CONNECTED TO VMWARE One issue with these appliances…
For the lowest latency VDI VMs, the VMs should be running from in-host RAM. The combination of two facts – that RAM is the lowest latency media there is, and it is on the same motherboard as the host CPU, makes this storage architecture for VDI higher performing than any other….
April 20, 2022; Connecticut, USA. WAN latency does not contribute to VM latencies when a storage array fails in a VMware metro / stretched cluster when all storage IO is cached to VMware host Flash or RAM. This post discusses how VirtuCache did this for Mashantucket casinos, by explaining the…
March 20, 2022: Puteaux, France. We deployed VirtuCache software at Reed Expositions to improve the storage performance of their Dell ME5 storage appliance. Based in Puteaux, France, Reed Expo is organizer of trade and consumer events covering 22 countries. They have large amounts of multi-media content that they wanted to…
February 18, 2022: United Arab Emirates. Virtunet Systems develops VirtuCache software. VirtuCache improves the storage performance of VMware VMs by caching all VM data (read and write operations) to in-host SSD or RAM. We deployed VirtuCache software at the Al Futtaim Group to improve the storage performance of their Dell…
One advantage that Hyper-converged infrastructure(HCI) has over SAN infrastructure is that HCI has put high speed storage back in the hosts. This is also true for Host Side Caching software. However, unlike HCI, host side caching retains the flexibility that SAN infrastructure has over HCI, of being able to do…
Even if you have a fast array and storage network, and you are still experiencing high storage latencies for your high throughput VMs, it might be because of choked Queue Depths at the VM and virtual LUN device in the host. This problem will happen only if a few VMs…
Massachusetts, USA; December 12, 2021. Zensar is a publicly listed company with annual revenues of $500M. They are in the outsourced IT infrastructure and software services space. One of their business units offers post warranty support services for storage arrays, and this division rebrands and resells VirtuCache to enterprise customers…
If your SQL Server runs in a VMware VM and it has performance issues, the root cause of which is slow storage, then our host side caching software for VMware, called VirtuCache, will be able to fix this problem. This post explains how VirtuCache does this by explaining the read…