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…
VirtuCache is ESXi software that automatically caches ‘hot’ data from any SAN storage to in-host SSD or RAM. By doing so it improves the storage performance of VMware VMs, without requiring you to upgrade your storage appliance or network. VirtuCache is a superior solution to Hybrid Dell ME4’s internal Read…
The specific NVME SSDs I recommend are the Samsung PM1735, for a conventional PCIe slot in the VMware host, and the Intel P4610 for a 15mm U.2 slot in the host. NVME SSDs are by far the best choice for host side caching in VMware. They are the same price…
VMware has two categories of SSD Host Caches — those that swap out memory contents to SSD when host memory is full, and those that cache storage requests to host Flash / RAM. In the former category are the below VMware features. VMware’s ‘Host Cache Configuration’ feature VMware’s ‘Virtual Flash…
The big difference between the two is that VSA can cache only reads and only from the Master/Replica VM in Horizon VDI.1,2 VirtuCache caches reads and writes from all server & desktop VMs, and it can cache to TBs of in-host SSD or RAM, with the goal of servicing all storage…