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….
Considering that a wide range of high speed media – SATA / SAS / NVME SSDs, and RAM can be used for server side caching in VMware, my preferred in-host media is an enterprise grade NVME SSD. Below are the specific SSDs I recommend (as of July 2020): If you…
The quickest to find out if you have storage performance issues in ESXi is by doing SSH (use putty) to the ESXi host and typing the command ‘esxtop’ and then typing the letter ‘v’.
If you are experiencing high write latencies in VMs when using an EMC Unity Hybrid array, it could be because the caching and tiering solutions in Unity don’t cache random small block writes, and your applications might be generating large volumes of such storage IO.
The main advantage that hyper-converged infrastructure(HCI) has over traditional SAN based infrastructure is that HCI has put high speed storage back in the compute nodes. This is also true for Host Side Caching software, with the added benefit that host side caching maintains the flexibility that SAN based infrastructure always had…