Virtual Flash enables the use of Solid State Disks (SSD) or PCIe-based flash storage in ESXi hosts to accelerate the performance of virtual machines by providing read caching and host swapping.
Leveraging host flash
How to do it...
Refer the following steps to leverage host flash:
- Configure local SSDs or flash devices as a Virtual Flash Resource
- Configure vSphere Flash Read Cache (vFRC) for virtual machine disks
- Allocate Virtual Flash capacity for the host swap cache
How it works...
Configuring local SSDs for use as a Virtual Flash Resource is done from the ESXi host...