paravirtual
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home lab
VMware LSI SAS vs PVSCSI vs NVMe Controller Performance
With all of the different variations of virtual controllers now available in VMware, I wanted to perform a simple test of disk performance benchmarks when using all three controllers on the same virtual machine to see if the controllers performedโฆ
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vSphere 6.5
Change Paravirtual to NVMe virtual storage controller in vSphere 6.5
With each new release of vSphere we have had storage performance improvements. The virtual storage controllers that are presented to a virtual machine can impact the performance of those VMs greatly. New to vSphere 6.5, we have the availability ofโฆ
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VMware PowerCLI
VMware PowerCLI Add Harddisk and Attach to Paravirtual Controller
There are certainly performance benefits to using the VMware ParaVirtual controller, especially in extreme load conditions. According to VMwareโs own documentation, the PVSCSI controller provides 8% better throughput at 10% lower CPU cost. There are also performance benefits to useโฆ