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…
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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…
If your Veeam backups take a long time to complete or if they fail entirely; VMs freeze during backups; you see disk consolidation errors in vcenter; or if you simply want to speed up your backups, then our VirtuCache software is relevant. VirtuCache Configuration to Speed Up Backup Times in…
August 22, 2021; Connecticut, USA. Foxwoods Casino and Resorts operates six casinos and a couple of 2200 room hotels in Ledyard, Connecticut. They used VirtuCache to improve the write performance of EMC VNX appliance. Foxwood’s EMC VNX appliances already had the FastCache SSD caching functionality from EMC. EMC’s FastCache cached…
April 23,2021; Yeoju County, Korea. Yeoju University uses VirtuCache with HGST NVME Flash drives to improve Oracle application performance.