Posts tagged with "VM I/O blender"

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

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.

I/O performance: Not all hypervisors deliver the same results

by Alex Miroshnichenko, CTO

Posted Sunday, October 03, 2010 in Alternative Solutions          2 comments

Tags: bloggers & media, Hyper-V, no dupe, performance, storage sprawl, Virsto One, VM I/O blender, VMware, Xen

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.