If you are experiencing storage performance issues, and if you have greater than 30 Datastores in an ESXi cluster, then this most likely is the cause of your storage performance issues, even if you have a high performing all-flash array and a high speed storage network. First we start with…
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Mount Airy, North Carlina, USA. May 22,2023. Surrey Bank & Trust is a regional bank in North Carolina. Surrey Bank was having storage performance issues, despite being on all-NVME storage arrays. The root cause of the issue turned out to be their 100 plus Datastores mapped to each host. With…
London, UK. January 20,2023. AXA is a large multinational insurance company. AXA’s IT department in London deployed VirtuCache to improve the performance of their newly deployed Instant Clone based Horizon VDI deployment. They use various Netapp All Flash Arrays as primary storage. They were specifically looking to eliminate VDI boot…
Columbia Memorial Hospital (CMH) is a hospital on the Columbia river in NW Oregon. This project was a combination of Virtunet’s professional services to virtualize CMH’s CPSI EMR system and deploying Virtunet’s VirtuCache software to improve the storage performance of CMH’s VMware infrastructure. Needing a Hardware Refresh CMH was running…
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…
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…