Posts tagged with "Microsoft"

Eric Burgener, VP Product Management

Clarifying How Virsto Plays with Hyper-V R2 Cluster Shared Volumes

Tags: Hyper-V, Microsoft, performance, Virsto One, Virsto VDI, Virsto VSI

Where we recommend that Virsto vDisks be used in a failover cluster is for the VM image and user data.  This is where some of Virsto's unique features have real value...

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Eric Burgener, VP Product Management

Virsto and Hyper-V:  A Compelling Alternative in the Data Center

Tags: Hyper-V, Microsoft, VMware

If you’re looking to enhance your Hyper-V experience with storage performance, storage capacity consumption, provisioning times, snapshot backups with Windows Volume Shadowcopy Services (VSS) and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) or cluster shared volumes (CSVs), then you will be interested to know more about Virsto. 

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Alex Miroshnichenko, CTO

A hypervisor IO performance benchmarking recipe

Tags: Hyper-V, Microsoft, performance, Virsto One, virtualization, VM I/O blender, VMware

Benchmark

This post is in response to a comment from Eric Gray to my post about hypervisor IO performance.

Eric asked for more details about how to run certain IO benchmarks, so I'll provide that here.

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Mark Davis, CEO

Virsto CTO guest post on Microsoft virtualization blog

Tags: false assumptions, Hyper-V, Microsoft, performance, Virsto One, virtualization, VM I/O blender

On the Microsoft Windows Virtualization Product Group blog, Virsto CTO Alex Miroshnichenko explains why a storage guy cares about Dynamic Memory in his post.

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Mark Davis, CEO

Abracadabra! A new release of Virsto One

Tags: bloggers & media, Hyper-V, Microsoft, no dupe, Virsto One, virtualization, VMware, Xen

The Magic of Virsto OneArthur C. Clarke said it best.  "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Please welcome the latest magic from Virsto's rockin' engineering team: Virsto One v1.2.

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Mark Davis, CEO

Virsto at House of Blues NOLA

Tags: humor, Microsoft, people

Virsto at House of Blues NOLAVirsto's Steve Gearing brings down the house at Microsoft's Tech•Ed virtualization party at the House of Blues in New Orleans…

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Mark Davis, CEO

Best of Tech•Ed finalist

Tags: Microsoft, Virsto One

Best of Tech•EdVirsto is proud to have been selected as a finalist for the prestigious Best of Tech•Ed competition…

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