Speed
When it comes to running a data center, the last thing employees want is to be tied down with IO performance and latency concerns, even when using flash storage.
With conventional storage, IO requests are handled sequentially. So, a mission-critical test for the development team gets stuck behind a massive (and relatively unimportant) database update. And it's why boot storms and antivirus scans can cripple VDI user experience.
Within a LUN, if a single VM acts like a noisy neighbor and demands more than its share of performance, it can negatively affect the performance of other VMs in that same LUN. Fortunately, there's an alternative — more organizations are turning to VM-aware storage (VAS), which uses individual VMs as the unit of management.
With VM-aware storage, IT can give every VM its own performance lane. There are no LUNs, and so there are no neighbors. If an individual VM goes wrong, it doesn't affect any other VMs on the VAS storage platform. Rather than stack up actions sequentially, VM-aware storage handles them simultaneously to end the performance hiccups that can be so pervasive. Without the limitations of traditional, physical-first storage, virtualized applications perform (on average) six times faster.