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Some businesses might be tempted to migrate their Microsoft® SQL Server® databases and storage platforms to virtualized environments for greater deployment and management flexibility, but virtualization typically incurs a performance penalty. For example, input/output (I/O) performance and throughput are generally far lower on VMware VSAN deployments, compared to local storage. In some cases, administrators might be willing to make a performance tradeoff for management convenience if the difference is within an acceptable range. But for organizations that are already struggling to process massive and growing quantities of data, any additional drop in performance wouldn’t be a viable upgrade option.