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…
Host Cache
In terms of price/performance, enterprise NVME SSDs have now become the best choice for in-VMware host caching media. They are higher performing and cost just a little more than their lower performing SATA counterparts. The Samsung PM1735 (in PCIe form factor) and the Intel P4610 (2.5″ U.2 form factor) NVME…