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vSphere 5.5 Flash Read Cache (vFRC) is a new feature that allows you to leverage host local SSDs in a very effective way. The benefit is the offload of I\/O from the SAN to local SSD.<\/p>\n
A Virtual Flash resource is configured on an SSD device connected to your ESXi formatted with a new file system called VFFS<\/strong> (Virtual Flash File System). Up to 8 SSD devices can be configured.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n From vSphere Web Client navigate to Home > vCenter > Hosts and Clusters<\/strong> and select the host to configure. Go to Manage > Settings<\/strong> tab then under Virtual Flash<\/strong> select Virtual Flash Resource Management<\/strong> option.<\/p>\n Click on Add Capacity<\/strong> button to add the SSD device to use for virtual flash.<\/p>\n From the list select the flash device to use then click OK<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The device is then added to the system.<\/p>\n Repeat same steps for all ESXi hosts to configure.<\/p>\n From the host Summary<\/strong> tab you can see the Virtual Flash Resource<\/strong> just configured.<\/p>\n It\u2019s possible to use this flash capacity<\/strong> not only for vFRC but for Host Swap Cache as well.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To configure the Host Swap using same SSD device<\/strong> used for vFRC, select under Virtual Flash<\/strong> the Virtual Flash Host Swap Cache Configuration<\/strong>\u00a0item. Click on Edit<\/strong> button and thick Enable virtual flash host swap cache <\/strong>option, specify the capacity then click OK<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The cache has been configured.<\/p>\n Perform same steps to enable the cache\u00a0for the other\u00a0ESXi hosts equipped with SDD devices. The Summary<\/strong> tab shows the new Virtual Flash capacity available<\/strong> after having enabled Host Swap.<\/p>\n To use vSphere Flash Read Cache you need Enterprise Plus Licensing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n vSphere 5.5 Flash Read Cache (vFRC) is a new feature that allows you to leverage host local SSDs in a very effective way. The benefit is the offload of I\/O from the SAN to local SSD. A Virtual Flash resource is configured on an SSD device connected to your ESXi formatted with a new file system called VFFS (Virtual Flash File System). Up to 8 SSD devices can be configured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","twitter_113568041_113568041":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[903,2701],"tags":[1000,999,1001,866],"class_list":["post-9738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vmware-en","category-vsphere-en","tag-flash-host-swap-en","tag-flash-read-cache-en","tag-vfrc-en","tag-vsphere-5-5-en","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Configure vFRC<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nConfigure Host Swap Cache<\/h2>\n
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