VMWare users - huge improvement using NVMe as VDisks even on SSDs

Hi folks
if you want to get a lot of improvement on Disk I/O on VM's using VMWare - the latest release supports NVMe as a Virtual disk -- even if you choose it on a "bog standard" SSD the improvement IMO is very noticeable (Slow HDD's are the bane of any computer whether on a VM or not) and often Virtual machines are also hampered by the "Virtual I/O" subsystem.

I don't have any NVMe devices but using a bog standard SSD I was able to get much better throughput than using standard "SCSI" choice.

Here's a Fedora 32 Linux VM on a W10 Host -- works also with Windows VM's too VMWare rel 15.5.6



Boots also from the "NVMe" device (boot into firmware) -- for VMWare player users you can also boot into firmware -- you need to change 1 line in the config (vmx) file each time -- I've a post elsewhere in this section - just google !!




cheers
jimbo