Dell’s PowerEdge VRTX hyper-converged appliance can either have all hard drive datastores or all SSD datastores, but you can’t have SSDs or RAM act as tiering or caching media for VRTX volumes / virtual disks. That’s where VirtuCache comes in.
Improve HCI Performance
Even when Ontap Select is using high-performance enterprise SSDs, it shows high latencies because there are quite a few file system layers that the storage IO must traverse. Within Ontap Select, you first create a separate VMFS Datastore on each locally attached SSD or HDD on each host in the…