According to VMware, there are two main reasons to deploy a virtual machine with the Paravirtual SCSI controller:
PVSCSI adapters are high-performance storage adapters that can result in greater throughput and lower CPU utilization. PVSCSI adapters are best for environments, especially SAN environments, where hardware or applications drive a very high amount of I/O throughput. The VMware PVSCSI adapter driver is also compatible with the Windows Storport storage driver. PVSCSI adapters are not suitable for DAS environments. VMware Paravirtual SCSI adapters are high-performance storage adapters that can result in greater throughput and lower CPU utilization.
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[1]The PVSCSI adapter offers a significant reduction in CPU utilization as well as potentially increased throughput compared to the default virtual storage adapters, and is thus the best choice for environments with very I/O-intensive guest applications.
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[2]Changing VMware Storage Controller to Paravirtual for CentOS 7
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vss-cli compute vm set <name-or-vm-id> snapshot mk -d "lsi logic to paravirtual" -l 72 |
Power Off the virtual machine:
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vss-cli compute vm set <vm-name-or-vm-id> snapshot rm <snap-id> |
Changing VMware Storage Controller to Paravirtual for Windows
This tutorial contain step by step guidance to change the Virtual Storage Controller from LSI Logic SAS (SCSI controller 0) to VMware Paravirtual for a Microsoft Windows Server 2016 or later (64-bit) based Virtual Machine running on the ITS Private Cloud
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vss-cli --wait compute vm set <name-or-vm-id> snapshot mk -d "lsi logic to paravirtual" -l 72 |
Shutdown/Power Off the virtual machine:
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vss-cli --wait compute vm set <vm-name-or-vm-id> snapshot rm <snap-id> |
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VMware KB 1010398
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Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 6.7
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Contributed by Joe Bate.
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