Posts Tagged ‘linked clone’
vDesktops – Where do you measure IOPS?
March 2nd, 2011 | 
Author: People are talking SO much about VMware View sizing these days. Everyone seems to have their own view on how much IOPS a vDesktop (virtual desktop) really uses. When you’re off by a few IOPS times a thousand desktops things can get pretty ugly. Everyone hammers on optimizing the templates, making sure the vDesktops do not swap themselves to death etc. But everyone seems to forget a very important aspect…
Where to look
People are measuring all the time. Looking, checking, seeing it fail in the field, go back to the drawing board, size things up, try again. This could happen in an environment where storage does not a 1-on-1 relation with disk drives (like when you use SSDs for caching etc). But even in straight RAID5/RAID10 configs I see it happen all the time. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Storage, VDI and VMware View, VMware | 
Tags: linked clone, linked clones, VMware, VMware View, vSphere | 
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