dandye

tar xvf VMware-vix-disklib-6.0.2-3566099.x86_64.tar.gz 
cd vmware-vix-disklib-distrib/bin64
sudo ln -s $(pwd)/vmware-vdiskmanager /usr/bin/vmware-vdiskmanager 
ls -l /usr/bin/vmware-vdiskmanager
cd ../lib64/
sudo ln -s $(pwd) /usr/lib/vmware
sudo bash -c "echo $(pwd) > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/vmware-vix-disklib.conf"
sudo ldconfig

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD