Do you have a VM-level filesystem?
Don’t believe everything you read—while hyperconverged and VVol can hide the complexities of your (decidedly non-VM-level) filesystem, they still run on LUNs and volumes. That means they work under the same limits you’ve always labored under—whether that’s noisy neighbors and contention or just the inherent unpredictability of conventional storage.
VM-aware storage has a VM-level filesystem. It doesn’t just list VMs and VMDKs—it sees them and is able to manage them individually. It isn’t optimized for LUNs or volumes—it’s optimized for VMs and offers predictable VM performance. It doesn’t schedule I/O at a LUN or volume level—it schedules I/O at a VM-level, with VM-level isolation.