When VirtuCache is installed on all the ESXi hosts in a stretched cluster, then WAN latencies do not factor into VM latencies when a storage array in a VMware metro / stretched cluster fails. Customer use case with additional technical detail follows.
VirtuCache is now supported on ESXi 7. We are the only host cache vendor that supports all ESXi releases from 5.5 – 7.0; and the only one supporting server and VDI VMs, all our competition supports one or the other. For a recent customer use case using VirtuCache on ESXi…
By caching VM reads and writes to high-speed RAM and NVME SSD inside the VMware hosts, VirtuCache was able to improve the performance of Objectivity’s build/test process considerably. Objectivity is a developer of an object database software for storing and analyzing satellite mapping data. As is the case with dev/ops…
CEPH storage is ideally suited for storing Petabyte scale genomic data since it has a distributed architecture, it is deployed on commodity servers, it has all the reliability features that you expect from enterprise storage, and there is no vendor lock-in (open source). Hence it is cheap, highly available, and…
Contra Costa County Hospital is a 800-bed government hospital in the San Francisco-Bay Area. Their IT department is using HPE MSA storage and ESXi compute to run their EMR, imaging and other critical care applications. They were seeing high storage latencies from their HPE MSA appliances, because of inadequate MSA…