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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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Changing VMware Storage Controller to Paravirtual for CentOS 7This tutorial contain step by step guidance to change the Virtual Storage Controller from LSI Logic Parallel (SCSI controller 0) to VMware Paravirtual for a CentOS 7 based Virtual Machine that is running on the ITS Private Cloud.
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Changing VMware Storage Controller to Paravirtual for WindowsThis 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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Add a temporary VMware Paravirtual Controller to the Virtual Machine.
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vss-cli --wait compute vm set <vm-name-or-vm-id> controller scsi mk --sscsi paravirtual |
Verify that a new SCSI controller has been created.
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Update scsi controller 0 to type Paravirtual:
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Remove temporary SCSI controller
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