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Use PVSCSI or not for lower intensive workloads

Written on 1 Feb, 2010 at 3:01 in Server Virtualization | viewed 580 views times | 11 Comments
Use PVSCSI or not for lower intensive workloads

Do I choose the PVSCSI or LSI Logic virtual adapter on ESX 4.0 for non-IO intensive workloads? I thought that the question about using or not VMware Paravirtual adapter was solved with the vSphere 4 Update 1 and the announce that... (Continue reading)

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Changement from LSilogic paralel into pvscsi

Written on 30 Nov, 2009 at 1:17 in Server Virtualization | viewed 819 views times | 1 Comment
Changement from LSilogic paralel into pvscsi

How-to avoid BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) when you want to change from LSI Logic paralel into PVSCSI Before update 1 you could only use the new PVSCSI adapter for your DATA disks in your VMs. The benefits of using PVSCSI... (Continue reading)

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How-to enable PvSCSI and when

Written on 25 Oct, 2009 at 0:55 in Server Virtualization | viewed 1,021 views times | 0 Comments
How-to enable PvSCSI and when

VMware Paravirtualized SCSI (PVSCSI driver) Introduced with vSphere 4 this driver can speed up and offload CPU.  VMware Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapter is able to achieve 12% more throughput with 18% less CPU cost compared to the LSI virtual adapter. vSphere... (Continue reading)

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VMware PVSCSI driver – in linux VM speeds up disk access

Written on 21 Sep, 2009 at 0:39 in Server Virtualization | viewed 979 views times | 0 Comments
VMware PVSCSI driver - in linux VM speeds up disk access

Speed up your Guest VM with paravirtual SCSI adapters: PVSCSI is part of vSphere 4 I wrote an article about here. Note that Boot Disks are not officially supported by VMware. It’s not that it doesn’t work, but it’s just not... (Continue reading)

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Improvements in vSphere with a new paravirtualized adapter

Written on 7 Jul, 2009 at 0:57 in Server Virtualization | viewed 2,442 views times | 0 Comments
Improvements in vSphere with a new paravirtualized adapter

New paravirtualized SCSI adapter is more optimized SCSI adapter than the LSI virtual Adapter. This adapter and many more other enhancements are part of new virtual machine hardware version 7 in vSphere 4. VMware’s new paravirtualized SCSI adapter (pvSCSI) offers 12%... (Continue reading)

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