Posts tagged with "virtualization"

Just What Is A Storage Hypervisor?

by Eric Burgener, VP Product Management

Posted Thursday, December 15, 2011 in Technology          0 comments

Tags: excessive storage spending, Hyper-V, virtualization, VMware

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.  

What Kind of ROI Do You Need To Bring A Technology In-House?

by Eric Burgener, VP Product Management

Posted Tuesday, July 12, 2011 in Technology          0 comments

Tags: dedupe, Hyper-V, Virsto VDI, Virsto VSI, virtualization, VMware

Much of that 74% savings comes from our very efficient thin provisioning implementation, so it won’t conflict with the benefits dedupe can provide. 

Go after the low hanging fruit first

by Eric Burgener, VP Product Management

Posted Wednesday, June 29, 2011 in Technology          0 comments

Tags: excessive storage spending, Hyper-V, Virsto VDI, Virsto VSI, virtualization, VMware, Xen

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? 

The Business Argument for Higher Storage Utilization

by Eric Burgener, VP Product Management

Posted Wednesday, June 01, 2011 in Technology          0 comments

Tags: excessive storage spending, Hyper-V, performance, Virsto VDI, Virsto VSI, virtualization, VMware, Xen

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?

Virsto for Virtual Desktops (VDI)

by Alex Miroshnichenko, CTO

Posted Tuesday, April 05, 2011 in News, Technology          1 comment

Tags: Hyper-V, Virsto VDI, virtual desktops, virtualization, VM I/O blender

Outperforming VMware:  Virsto and Hyper-V

by Eric Burgener, VP Product Management

Posted Monday, March 07, 2011 in Technology          0 comments

Tags: Hyper-V, performance, Virsto One, virtualization, VMware

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. 

Cost of Storage Infrastructure Will Have A Huge Impact on the Evolution of Cloud

by Eric Burgener, VP Product Management

Posted Monday, February 21, 2011 in Technology          0 comments

Tags: cloud, virtualization

What I think will happen here is that a “standard operating environment” (SOE) will evolve over time that will be quite similar across different cloud providers. This SOE will be built around particular technologies, not particular vendors, that make more efficient use of existing hardware. 

Dynamic Memory will highlight storage performance problems

by Eric Burgener, VP Product Management

Posted Friday, February 11, 2011 in Technology          0 comments

Tags: Hyper-V, performance, virtualization, VM I/O blender

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. 

A hypervisor IO performance benchmarking recipe

by Alex Miroshnichenko, CTO

Posted Friday, October 08, 2010 in Alternative Solutions          5 comments

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

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.

Virsto CTO guest post on Microsoft virtualization blog

by Mark Davis, CEO

Posted Tuesday, September 14, 2010 in Technology          0 comments

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.

Abracadabra! A new release of Virsto One

by Mark Davis, CEO

Posted Monday, September 13, 2010 in News          0 comments

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

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.

Blog: Real Storage for the Virtual World

by Mark Davis, CEO

Posted Thursday, August 05, 2010 in News          0 comments

Tags: bloggers & media, people, virtualization

A great source of information on virtualization is Virtualization Review. To give you more technical information straight from the expert horses' mouths, VR editor Bruce Hoard has assembled a sharp group of CTOs to blog about their areas of expertise. One of those CTOs is Virsto's Alex Miroshnichenko…