June 2013

VMware vSphere Storage Performance – Thick vs Thin Provisioning

Industry experts will tell you that virtualization of your environment is not done to improve performance, it’s done to make it cheaper and easier to manage.  The task of most VM administrators is to cram as many VMs into a farm as possible.  One of the ways is to accomplish that is to allocate “thin provisioned” storage to each VM.For each VM that is created, the VM admin has to specify the number of virtual CPUs, the amount of virtual RAM, the number and size of each virtual disk, as well as a few other items.  The virtual disks can...

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