Advanced Storage Options

In the next screen, we are going to configure the Advanced Storage Options, as shown in the following screenshot:

In the first section of this configuration screen, you can configure the View Storage Accelerator and how to manage disk space. View Storage Accelerator allows you to configure desktop pools to enable ESXi hosts (vSphere 5.x or later) to cache virtual machine disk data. This feature uses the Content Based Read Cache (CBRC) feature of the ESXi host server. The View Storage Accelerator, or VSA, reduces the disk IOPS and therefore improves the performance during boot storms.

A boot storm occurs when a large ...

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