Welcome back! This blog post is part of a number of posts in advance of our upcoming release, for reference you can find part one below:
Getting right to it:
In this industry when somebody says ‘boot storms!’ – most of us will respond with:
Boot storms are a well documented, boring problem and have many solutions available from vendors and hypervisors alike. Most solutions today rely on a ‘shared memory’ storage area to cache ‘on boot’, in theory caching only one startup or one pattern in order to then serve it back to the proceeding desktops to boot.
But why are boot storms an issue? While working on ThinIO we had the unique ability to really dive into the Windows boot process and analyse why boot storms cause the damage they do and in this post we thought we’d share our findings to better document the issue.
Lets get right to it!