Currently we have a CentOS server (dual quad, 32GB RAM upgrading to 64GB) running vmware 1.x with 4x1TB disks in RAID10 that give me 380 IOPS in read and 190 IOPS in write. Average iowait is 7-10%.

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The hyperconverged upstarts may have created the market for server-storage hybrids to support clusters of virtual machines, but it may be VMware that benefits most from this movement as customers look ...