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Virsto Storage Hypervisor for Hyper-V

The Most Comprehensive, Integrated and Efficient Storage Hypervisor Available for Hyper-V

Virsto for Virtual Servers, Hyper-v Edition, 2.0 delivers: 

  • A non-disruptive, 100% software solution that installs in the Hyper-V Parent Partition
  • Native support for Hyper-V and Microsoft Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)
  • Seamless integration with Microsoft DPM & VSS for backup and recovery
  • Virsto Global Image Snapshot - Complete Virsto Environment Snapshot for offsite 
  • Software based tiering: support for up to 4 distinct tiers
  • Bulk virtual machine provisioning wizards for Test & Development, Database and Private Cloud virtualization use cases

Virsto’s Storage Hypervisor Drives Virtualization Throughout the Enterprise


By removing operational inefficiencies and significantly reducing the capital cost and complexity of storage in virtualized environments, Virsto helps organizations drive the benefits of virtualization throughout the enterprise by changing the economics of storage in virtualization use cases. 

Accelerate Test and Development While Delivering Higher Quality Releases

IT organizations gain the agility to support corporate innovation initiatives by delivering higher quality releases in less time through accelerated test and development cycles. Virsto accelerates virtual machine provisioning by up to 75 percent and offers the most scalable, high-performance snapshots and writable clones available in the industry. Development teams can now test multiple scenarios simultaneously, on storage-efficient copies of complete production environments, with storage self-service provisioning, which enables higher quality releases to get through testing and development faster. 

Deliver Cost-Effective, Agile Private Cloud Storage Infrastructure

Virsto helps IT organizations achieve the twin goals of private cloud initiatives: overall cost reduction with increased self-service and agility. Virsto enables the automation of storage provisioning and reclamation processes when virtual machines are spun-up and down in a dynamic cloud environment, while removing the inefficient storage management workflows between server and storage functions by enabling storage self-provisioning for server and desktop teams. Virsto helps organizations increase utilization of existing storage by up to 90 percent, while improving VM performance by up to 10x, enabling significant improvements in virtualization density, thereby lowering the overall infrastructure costs.
 

 

Features

Increased storage performance

Virsto for VSI creates a virtual storage layer that presents VHDs to virtual machines running in Hyper-V. Virsto vDisks look like native Hyper-V fixed disks, but they are thin-provisioned, high performance, cluster-aware, and support extremely scalable snapshot/clone technology – all at the same time. When deployed with Virsto, Hyper-V delivers higher, more predictable storage performance, and uses up to 90% less storage capacity.

Snapshots/clones perform at the limit of the underlying storage hardware

If you’d like to use snapshot/clone technology to help make administrative tasks like maintenance, backup, and new VM deployment easier but have hesitated because of performance issues, note that Virsto vDisks and their snapshot/clones always perform at the limit of the underlying storage hardware (i.e. the same performance that a pass-through disk would have). This is true regardless of how many snapshots or clones may be associated with a particular Virsto vDisk.

Fully supports Microsoft's recommended VSS/DPM backup

Virsto fully supports Microsoft’s recommended VSS/DPM backup strategy, so if you’re struggling with backup performance in failover cluster environments, consider using Virsto vDisks. They’re fully cluster-aware and support the needs of clustered environments.

Seamless integration into existing System Center management environment

Virsto vDisks fit seamlessly into your existing System Center management environment. Virsto supports key tools in the System Center ecosystem, including Windows VSS, Microsoft DPM, Virtual Machine Manager, and Operations Manager. There is even a Systems Center Operations Manager Management Pack, available at no charge to Virsto’s Hyper-V customers, that further improves integration in these environments. Virsto also supports key features of the Hyper-V R2 environment, including Windows Server Failover Clusters and Live Migration. This approach preserves existing investments in System Center administrative expertise while enhancing the native storage capabilities of Hyper-V.