April 20, 2022; Connecticut, USA. WAN latency does not contribute to VM latencies when a storage array fails in a VMware metro / stretched cluster when all storage IO is cached to VMware host Flash or RAM. This post discusses how VirtuCache did this for Mashantucket casinos, by explaining the…
Use Cases
March 20, 2022: Puteaux, France. We deployed VirtuCache software at Reed Expositions to improve the storage performance of their Dell ME5 storage appliance. Based in Puteaux, France, Reed Expo is organizer of trade and consumer events covering 22 countries. They have large amounts of multi-media content that they wanted to…
February 18, 2022: United Arab Emirates. Virtunet Systems develops VirtuCache software. VirtuCache improves the storage performance of VMware VMs by caching all VM data (read and write operations) to in-host SSD or RAM. We deployed VirtuCache software at the Al Futtaim Group to improve the storage performance of their Dell…
Massachusetts, USA; December 12, 2021. Zensar is a publicly listed company with annual revenues of $500M. They are in the outsourced IT infrastructure and software services space. One of their business units offers post warranty support services for storage arrays, and this division rebrands and resells VirtuCache to enterprise customers…
October 2, 2021; India. Alcatel Lucent is a large telecom equipment provider. One of their departments was looking at upgrading their existing hybrid EMC VMAX storage appliance to an all-flash array, with Pure Storage being the leading contender for this replacement. Their main motivation to upgrade to an all-SSD array…
August 22, 2021; Connecticut, USA. Foxwoods Casino and Resorts operates six casinos and a couple of 2200 room hotels in Ledyard, Connecticut. They used VirtuCache to improve the write performance of EMC VNX appliance. Foxwood’s EMC VNX appliances already had the FastCache SSD caching functionality from EMC. EMC’s FastCache cached…
April 23,2021; Yeoju County, Korea. Yeoju University uses VirtuCache with HGST NVME Flash drives to improve Oracle application performance.
February 3,2021; Daejon, Korea. Chungnam National University Hospital (CNUH) uses VirtuCache with Intel Optane SSD and host RAM to improve VMware Horizon VDI performance.
Only read performance is improved by HP MSA’s internal caching and tiering features.1 In comparison, VirtuCache improves the performance of reads and writes for MSA, and it does so by caching to in-VMware host SSD or RAM. There are other differences as well. SSD in the ESXi host will perform…
Business Intelligence, Log Management, Security Information & Event Management (SIEM), Search and Analytic software like Splunk, Elastic Search, Cognos, HP Vertica, HP Autonomy, need to provide real-time visibility into large volumes of fast changing data. When these applications are deployed in traditional VMware VMs connected to centralized storage, such large…