Chicago, Illinois, USA. Oct 14, 2023. Comgraphics is a multi-platform print company, located in Blue Bell, PA and Chicago, IL. Comgraphics wanted to speed up the printing of more than a million PDF files a day. Virtunet Systems develops VirtuCache software. VirtuCache improves the storage performance of VMware VMs by…
Storage Performance
Mount Airy, North Carlina, USA. May 22,2023. Surrey Bank & Trust is a regional bank in North Carolina. Surrey Bank was having storage performance issues, despite being on all-NVME storage arrays. The root cause of the issue turned out to be their 100 plus Datastores mapped to each host. With…
Columbia Memorial Hospital (CMH) is a hospital on the Columbia river in NW Oregon. This project was a combination of Virtunet’s professional services to virtualize CMH’s CPSI EMR system and deploying Virtunet’s VirtuCache software to improve the storage performance of CMH’s VMware infrastructure. Needing a Hardware Refresh CMH was running…
Kralendijk, Caribbean Netherlands. August 1,2022. Bonaire, a municipality of the Netherlands, is a beautiful island in the Caribbean. Their public utilities department, Water- en Energiebedrijf Bonaire N.V. a.k.a Webbonaire, is a customer of VirtuCache. They use VirtuCache to improve the performance of their Scada applications, which run in VMware VMs…
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…
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…
April 23,2021; Yeoju County, Korea. Yeoju University uses VirtuCache with HGST NVME Flash drives to improve Oracle application 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…