November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
14h 29m
English
Caching a virtual disk image provides performance and in some instances protection against an ungraceful VM shutdown. Not all caching is safe to use. For optimum VM performance, it is important to be aware of the various caching offered in Proxmox. This option is available under the VM Hardware tab in the disk image creation or edit dialog box. The following screenshot shows the disk image's edit dialog box with the caching drop-down menu for the .raw disk image of our example VM:

As of Proxmox VE 5.0, the following caching options are available:
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Cache option |
Description |
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Direct sync |
In this cache option, ... |
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