How does Storage I/O Control protect the service level of critical virtual machines?

Storage I/O Control (SIOC) monitors datastore I/O latency and, when contention is detected, it dynamically reallocates available I/O bandwidth based on configured shares. This ensures that critical virtual machines, assigned higher I/O shares, receive preferential access to storage resources during periods of congestion, thereby protecting their performance service levels.

Storage I/O Control's purpose is to differentiate I/O resource allocation based on shares, not to allocate resources equally among all virtual machines.

While Storage I/O Control monitors I/O latency to detect congestion, its primary function is to enforce I/O resource allocation, not merely to monitor 'storage habits'.

Counting virtual machines on a storage device is a basic inventory task and does not explain how Storage I/O Control protects service levels through resource management.