I had to screendump the following presentation from Slideshare, I found it from some other blog and thought it was  interesting as much of the virtualization success depends of the storage and how it is performing. I am wondering if this of course is intentional and MS actually pays google?! and also pays for setting this ad on vmware related stuff…

 

If someone is interested in this presentation follow this link, I really recommend that you get to know what esxtop values to look at and also if you have not checked it before, Align the VM-disks! This is done automatically when using win 2008 and later but check your win 2003 servers. If your storage can support the new VAAI i recommend you to enable it in your vSphere environment as long as it is at least version 4.1, this can be set with powerCLI of course and gives performance gains when doing provisioning, cloning or storage vMotion and also get better cluster locking and meta data operations…