January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
574 pages
14h 44m
English
The use of disk shares will work just fine as long as the datastore is seen by a single ESXi host. Unfortunately, that is not a common case. Datastores are often shared among multiple ESXi hosts. When datastores are shared, you bring in more than one local host scheduler into the process of balancing the I/O among the virtual machines. However, these lost host schedules cannot talk to each other and their visibility is limited to the ESXi hosts they are running on. This easily contributes to a serious problem called the noisy neighbor situation:

The job of SIOC is to enable some form of communication between ...
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