diff --git a/source/administration/production-notes.txt b/source/administration/production-notes.txt
index a437b0051f1..1e1c75885fb 100644
--- a/source/administration/production-notes.txt
+++ b/source/administration/production-notes.txt
@@ -366,6 +366,13 @@ MongoDB on Virtual Environments
 The section describes considerations when running MongoDB in some of the
 more common virtual environments.
 
+.. note::
+
+   Local block devices attached to virtual machine instances via the
+   hypervisor should use a *noop* scheduler for best performance. The
+   *noop* scheduler allows the operating system to defer I/O scheduling to
+   the underlying hypervisor.
+
 EC2
 ```