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…
VMware Horizon deployments are often plagued with performance problems. Troubleshooting these problems is not a trivial task because there are many reasons for the poor performance of VMware Horizon deployments: storage issues, network bottlenecks, insufficient resources (CPU, RAM, etc.) and software issues. Effective monitoring is the first step in identifying…
Caching is used to accelerate storage performance on VMWare ESXi hosts. Several different approaches to perform caching on VMware ESXi were commercially available. Over the years, VirtuCache has emerged as the most preferred caching solution for VMware deployments. VirtuCache caches all VM reads and writes to in-host cache, and it…
“VDI is slow” is usually one of the most common complaints in VMWare deployments. There are many root causes for the perceived poor performance of VDI. Administrators often waste precious time chasing the wrong problems. This article lists the usual suspects so that they can quickly address end-user complaints. Long…
VM snapshot is a very commonly used feature in the VMware vSphere environment. A VM snapshot preserves the state and data of a VM at a particular point in time. This includes the VM powered state, along with all the data including disks, memory and virtual devices. This makes the…