Both cache ‘hot’ data to in-host RAM, but the differences between Citrix MCS Storage Optimization and VirtuCache are many. The top three are: – MCSIO works only for non-persistent Xenapp / Xendesktop VMs.1 VirtuCache works for all VMs on the ESXi host; – Citrix MCSIO can cache only VM writes…
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…
Update as of August 2020 – Datrium has recently been acquired by VMware and as a result, has announced the end-of-life for their DVX product line. Original post follows. In our first article, we explained the differences between our host side caching software (VirtuCache) and Datrium’s (DVX DiESL). To summarize…
PernixData FVP was end-of-lifed in 2019. More similar than different Both us and PernixData differentiate from rest of the host side caching vendors in similar ways – that we are kernel-mode software; both of us cache reads and writes; have data protection strategies to prevent data loss in case of…
Update as of August 2020 – Datrium has recently been acquired by VMware and as a result, has announced the end-of-life for their DVX product line. Original post follows. Both Datrium and us differentiate from the rest of the storage appliance vendors in that both of us cache data to…