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We wanted to learn about the performance improvements companies could experience with value SAS SSDs from KIOXIA versus enterprise SATA drives. We set up a four-node VMware vSAN cluster on a Dell EMC PowerEdge MX server using two different drive configurations:
We set up 24 VMs on both configurations. Each VM ran a mixed read/write transactional database workload that simulated customer activity on an online store, such as creating accounts, logging in, searching for products, and making purchases that affect inventory. See the science behind the report for more details on the configurations and how we performed testing.