Posts tagged with "VMware"

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.  

Re-Examining NAS vs SAN in Virtual Computing Environments

by Eric Burgener, VP Product Management

Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2011 in Technology          0 comments

Tags: excessive storage spending, VMware

Most folks I talk to have pre-conceived notions about what SAN and NAS give you, that SAN is hard to manage, that thin provisioned devices perform slowly, that you have to pay a lot to get scalable snapshot technology. Are you operating under some of these same assumptions? 

Virsto enters VMware market, unleashes storage hypervisor

by Mark Davis, CEO

Posted Monday, August 29, 2011 in Events, Technology          0 comments

Tags: Virsto VDI, VMware

Today Virsto officially entered the VMware market with the launch of Virsto for VDI, vSphere Edition. With our announcement, Virsto continues to deliver on the promise of the industry’s first storage hypervisor, with a software-based approach that simplifies the management of storage in virtualized environments and lets customers get much more out of their storage hardware investments.

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?

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. 

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

by Eric Burgener, VP Product Management

Posted Friday, February 25, 2011 in Technology          0 comments

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. 

You want Hyper-V to outperform ESX?

by Alex Miroshnichenko, CTO

Posted Tuesday, February 08, 2011 in Technology          0 comments

Tags: bloggers & media, Hyper-V, performance, VMware

..use Virsto !

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.

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.

Yesterday’s most surprising news story out of VMworld

by Mark Davis, CEO

Posted Tuesday, September 01, 2009 in News          0 comments

Tags: EMC, humor, VMware

Here's the lede from a Computerworld story:

EMC will resell virtualization management software from VMware alongside its own Ionix management platform in an expanded partnership aimed at helping enterprises build private clouds…