Hello,
I just wanted to ask the community members, if there is any benefit in tagging a SSD attached locally to a host as a SSD. I've recently acquired some ESXi 5.1 hosts, where a heavy I/O application will be hosted. We have 2 SSD's attached to each host as local Datastores where the VM's will be deployed (we don't plan to use them as a host cache), but as it often happens, the host does not recognise them as SSD's (Drive Type: non-SSD). They work flawlessly, we get great reads an writes, but what bothers me is - is there any benefit in tagging them as solid state drives? I've used the KB article http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2013188 to do just that, but its a bit a a hassle. The only thing I've noticed so far is, that the file system being used is VMFS 5.58 vs. 5.54 for the "non-ssd".
Did anyone make experience with this setting?