Posted Thursday, December 15, 2011 in Technology 0 comments
The promise of a storage hypervisor is to do for storage what server hypervisor technology did for servers, providing the same utilization, flexibility, and cost savings benefits.
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Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2011 in Technology 0 comments
Most folks I talk to have pre-conceived notions about what SAN and NAS give you, that SAN is hard to manage, that thin provisioned devices perform slowly, that you have to pay a lot to get scalable snapshot technology. Are you operating under some of these same assumptions?
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Posted Wednesday, June 29, 2011 in Technology 0 comments
Ultimately the administrators who manage storage are going to have to implement new processes that, while possibly already available today, are not being widely used. The question for you is: when does that happen for me?
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Posted Thursday, June 09, 2011 in Technology 0 comments
Great taste or less filling? I can just imagine Hyper-V systems administrators, just as emotionally charged, having heated debates about which is better when it comes to virtual hard drives (VHDs) – high performance or thin provisioned.
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Posted Wednesday, June 01, 2011 in Technology 0 comments
Maximizing utilization of infrastructure you've already paid for is a good thing. You'd do it for manufacturing, you've done it for servers, why not do it for storage too?
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Posted Monday, November 01, 2010 in Technology 0 comments
Last week on the MSDN blog, an article was posted about the virtues of Microsoft Hyper-V differencing disks in VDI environments. Based on recent experience testing VDI IO performance, there are some serious issues that must be considered.
Posted Friday, September 10, 2010 in Alternative Solutions 0 comments
An IT architect we'd spoken to mistakenly spent a bunch of money on new storage hardware to solve a VM I/O performance issue. The architect discovered, after spending US$50K, that he could have gotten even better performance if he'd not spent fifty thousand dollars on incremental hardware, but had instead invested a fraction of that on Virsto One software.
Posted Thursday, June 03, 2010 in Technology 0 comments
What is a clone, anyway?
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Posted Thursday, December 31, 2009 in News 0 comments
Arthur Cole at IT Business Edge posted an article about the problems of storage sprawl in a VM environment. Thanks Arthur for mentioning Virsto.
Posted Friday, July 10, 2009 in Technology 6 comments
This post was triggered by the latest VMWare article on DRS performance. I have been thinking and talking about this subject ever since I first saw a DRS demo at VMworld in September 2008 in Las Vegas.
DRS (Dynamic Resource Scheduler) is an awesome piece of technology…
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