A cache I/O filter can use a local flash device to cache virtual machine data.
If your caching I/O filter uses local flash devices, you need to configure a virtual flash resource, also known as VFFS volume. You configure the resource on your ESXi host before activating the filter. While processing the virtual machine read I/Os, the filter creates a virtual machine cache and places it on the VFFS volume.
To set up a virtual flash resource, you use flash devices that are connected to your host. To increase the capacity of your virtual flash resource, you can add more flash drives. An individual flash drive must be exclusively allocated to a virtual flash resource and cannot be shared with any other vSphere service, such as vSAN or VMFS. See Set Up Virtual Flash Resource.
