London, UK. July 20, 2024. AXA is a large multinational insurance company. AXA’s IT department in London deployed VirtuCache to improve the performance of their newly deployed Instant Clone based Horizon VDI deployment. They use various Netapp All Flash Arrays as primary storage. They were specifically looking to eliminate VDI…
VDI 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.
First of all – PernixData was a good host side caching software. Unfortunately for their customers, after they were acquired by Nutanix, Nutanix end-of-lifed their software. Our software, called VirtuCache, directly competes with PernixData FVP.
Fairbanks Sewer and Water (FSW) wanted to improve the performance of their server VMs (especially their server VMs running SCADA) and Horizon View virtual desktop VMs. Their virtual desktop VMs were exhibiting all the classic symptoms of storage related issues – cursor freezes, long boot times, long VM provisioning times,…
VirtuCache is installed in VMware vSphere kernel. It then automatically caches frequently and recently used data from any backend storage to any high speed media (RAM/SSD) in the VMware host. By bringing large amounts of ‘hot’ data closer to the VMware host GPU and CPU, VirtuCache improves the performance of…
April 29, 2020: By caching all VM read and write operations to Intel Optane NVME SSDs installed in VMware hosts, latencies of VDI VMs was much reduced. This resulted in improved VM performance and quicker VM boot times.
Seagate’s Enterprise SSD business unit manufacturers and sells high performance enterprise grade Solid State Drives (SSDs). Seagate realized that enterprise SSDs were well suited for the fast growing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) space. Since most VDI deployments use VMware vSphere, Seagate was interested in partnering with a software vendor that…
December 11, 2012 UCLA has deployed Virtual Desktops for students and staff using VMware Horizon View. End users of these virtual desktops complained about slow boot times, Windows cursor and start button freezing and generally slow response times from the virtual desktops at various times during the day.