>Hmmm, One of the advantages of a virtual environment is just that you are flexible with hardware. But anyways, If I were you, I'd let a VMWare expert look at your I/O optimization. From what I've read so for in this thread I do not think the problem is in the SQL server itself, but rather the platform. It is not able to deliver the physical I/O you need.

Thank you, I will open an issue with this and will see what I can obtain.