I’ve seen and had many discussions around this topic when discussing VMware View desktop design, so I though I’d gather as much information as I could to help you decide.
VMware View Desktops: IDE or SCSI? BusLogic, LSI Logic or PVSCSI?
February 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
VMware PVSCSI Adapter performance and low I/O Workloads
February 24, 2010 By 1 Comment
One of the major new components in Virtual Machine Hardware 7 is the new Para Virtualised SCSI (PVSCSI) adapter. When it first came out there were a number of posts regarding the much improved I/O Performance and latency reduction this new adapter delivered, such as Chad Sakac’s I/O vSphere performance test post.