PernixData FVP was end-of-lifed in 2019. For the most part, both our GUI and workflows are similar. This article compares, with screenshots, steps to install and configure VirtuCache and PernixData FVP. The only differences between us and Pernix stem from the fact that we leverage VMware’s own capability in the…
Margaret Fisk
Fairbanks Sewer and Water (FSW) wanted to improve the performance of their server VMs (especially their server VMs running SCADA) and Horizon View virtual desktop VMs. Their virtual desktop VMs were exhibiting all the classic symptoms of storage related issues – cursor freezes, long boot times, long VM provisioning times,…
By not using dedupe, compression, or RAID, using slow HDDs in centralized storage, and moving SSDs to compute hosts, we arrived at low price per capacity and performance for video storage. Here are unique requirements of video storage, some are obvious and others not so much, that inspired us to…
The Ark Encounter, in Williamstown, Kentucky, features a full-size Noah’s Ark built according to the dimensions of the Bible. Answers in Genesis (AiG) is the Christian ministry responsible for The Ark Encounter. AiG’s IT department had a few ESXi hosts connected to their HP Store VSA. As a result of…
Microsoft Dynamics AX transaction processing is write intensive and its reporting is read intensive, thus putting pressure on customer’s existing storage infrastructure. By caching frequently used data from customer’s existing storage to in-host SSDs, VirtuCache was able to reduce read and write latencies for AX running within VMware VMs.
In case of FastCache or any storage appliance based caching, the SSD is more expensive than if the same SSD were bought retail. Also the SSD performs better in the host than in the storage appliance, since the SSD in the appliance is constrained by the network and controller. EMC…
By improving storage performance for VMs, host side caching facilitates P2V of IO intensive bare-metal servers. And it saves capex because there is no storage upgrade involved. If you have not yet virtualized your physical servers due only to perceived storage performance issues in VMs, then deploying VirtuCache will help….