One of the most interesting areas covered at VMworld 2010 was the new storage features in vSphere 4.1. There are two main features I want to cover in depth as I feel they are important indicators of the direction that storage for VMware is heading: Storage I/O Control (SIOC) and vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI).
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.