Posted Tuesday, February 14, 2012 in Technology 0 comments
When you think about the "great couples of the ages" - Marc Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, Bogie and Bacall, etc. - would you ever place your relationship with your hypervisor in that group?
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Posted Thursday, February 09, 2012 in Alternative Solutions 0 comments
CIOs we speak with confirm that storage budgets have been hit with a force 5 hurricane due to the widespread adoption of server virtualization. One thing’s for sure: neither PCIe SSD cards nor SSD storage appliances will provide shelter for buffeted storage budgets.
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Posted Monday, August 22, 2011 in Technology 0 comments
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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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, March 07, 2011 in Technology 0 comments
Clearly, Hyper-V with Virsto can significantly outperform native VMware, assuming the same hardware configuration, in situations where you want high performance, thin provisioning, and snapshots at the same time.
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Posted Friday, February 11, 2011 in Technology 0 comments
Service packs are coming out Feb 22 for Windows Server 2008 R2, and one of the key new features is dynamic memory (see Jon Brodkin's article). By boosting how efficiently Hyper-V makes use of memory, this should boost VM density on a given host for a given set of resources. This claim tracks pretty closely with one we've been making for storage resources - that with a simple hypervisor plug in we'll let you support more VMs on a given storage configuration by significantly increasing the performance you get on a per spindle basis.
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Posted Tuesday, February 08, 2011 in Technology 0 comments
..use Virsto !
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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, October 08, 2010 in Alternative Solutions 5 comments
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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Posted Sunday, October 03, 2010 in Alternative Solutions 2 comments
Over on the TechNet site, VMware’s Eric Gray asked a couple followup questions to my guest post on the Microsoft Virtualization team blog. I can’t give a complete response in a brief comment, so I’m moving the discussion over here to the Virsto blog.
Posted Tuesday, September 14, 2010 in Technology 0 comments
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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