Best practise for selecting guest disk controller in vSphere

Marcel van den Berg | January 31, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

VMware introduced the paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) diskcontroller which is available for virtual machines. In this knowledgebase article the best practise is given:

PVSCSI is best for workloads that drive more than 2000 IOPS and 8 outstanding I/Os.

LSI Logic is best for workloads that drive lower I/O rates and fewer outstanding I/Os.

A technical explanation can be found at the Pivot Point blog

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