1. A method comprising: detecting that a metric associated with a first workload has breached a first threshold; determining that the first workload and a second workload access the same storage resources, wherein the storage resources are associated with a storage server; determining that the metric is impacted by the first workload and the second workload accessing the same storage resources; and in response to determining that the metric is impacted by the first workload and the second workload accessing the same storage resources, instantiating a first virtual cache appliance; and routing one of the first workload or the second workload through the first virtual cache appliance, wherein routing one of the first workload or the second workload through the first virtual cache appliance causes the first virtual cache appliance to cache data associated with the storage resources.