Case Study: VMhosts achieves 90% storage offload and sub-1ms latency with Infinio

Cloud provider VMhosts delivers high performance storage to customers

VMhosts is a UK cloud hosting provider running diverse customer workloads (SQL, Exchange, Oracle, accounting apps and web servers) on Dell PowerEdge servers with HP StoreVirtual VSA storage. Faced with the need to deliver enterprise-class I/O performance and availability without costly storage replacements—or risking data integrity as earlier solutions did—VMhosts sought a way to boost performance across all customers while keeping costs and operational risk low.

They deployed Infinio across every customer and VM, validating performance in a vSphere cluster and rolling it into production with VMware Ready support. The result: roughly 90% of requests offloaded from storage, latency falling from 9 ms to below 1 ms (often under 100 µs), no customer complaints about storage performance, and an anticipated three-year extension of their current storage lifecycle that reduces CapEx and preserves competitive pricing.

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Michael Custance

Owner