About Riverbed Turbo Boot
Riverbed Turbo Boot is a prefetch technique. Turbo Boot uses the Windows Performance Toolkit to generate information that enables faster boot times for Windows VMs in the branch office. Turbo Boot can improve boot times by two to ten times, depending on the customer scenario. Turbo Boot is a plugin that records the disk I/O when booting up the host operating system it has been installed on. The disk I/O activity is logged to a file. During any subsequent boots of the host system, the Turbo Boot log file is used by the Core to perform more accurate prefetch of data.
At the end of each boot made by the host, the log file is updated with changes and new information. This update ensures an enhanced prefetch on each successive boot.
Turbo Boot only applies to Windows VMs using NTFS.
If you are booting a Windows server or client VM from an unpinned LUN, we recommend that you install the Riverbed Turbo Boot software on the Windows VM.
You can download the Turbo Boot plugin from the Riverbed Support site as part of the Unified Installer for Riverbed Plugins. Turbo Boot can coexist with the Branch Recovery Agent. When both services are installed on the Windows Server they are automatically started at different intervals. This behavior is by design but may result in the following message on the Windows Server until both services have started, “The NT Kernel Logger session is already in use. Failed to start ETW Controller: sleeping for 60 seconds”. You can ignore the message.