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 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 Tuesday, March 01, 2011 in Categories, News 1 comment
Just over twelve months ago, Virsto Software released our first product to the world.
February 2010 was the culmination of several years of work to develop this product, yet it also was the commencement of addressing some key challenges in the virtual and cloud computing market. We’re confident it will lead to even more years of success and further evolution.
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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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Posted Monday, September 13, 2010 in News 0 comments
Arthur 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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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 Tuesday, July 20, 2010 in Technology 0 comments
Let's wrap up this series by comparing deduplication (dedupe) with Virsto no dupe.
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Posted Thursday, June 03, 2010 in Technology 0 comments
What is a clone, anyway?
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Posted Thursday, May 27, 2010 in News 0 comments
Virsto is proud to have been selected as a finalist for the prestigious Best of Tech•Ed competition…
Posted Monday, May 10, 2010 in News 0 comments
Six weeks after our initial release of Virsto One we welcome version 1.1. We would not call it 1.1 unless we responded to customer feedback that introduced new features, along with some bug fixes…
Posted Sunday, April 25, 2010 in Technology 0 comments
There is nothing like real customer exposure for understanding truth.
Since our Virsto One release we have been getting great positive feedback. Including some valuable questions on various aspects of the product. The one area that seems to bring the most questions is the architecture of our filter driver and our VHD model…
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Posted Tuesday, February 16, 2010 in News, Software Business 4 comments
Two and a half years ago, we started digging feverishly into the storage issues that are unique to virtual datacenters. A lot of sweat and blood has been expended by a dedicated Virsto team since then. I'm happy to say that today, our first product was announced to the world.
Virsto One is the first and only hypervisor based storage virtualization solution built from the ground up for the unique needs of virtual servers.
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