Posted Thursday, May 03, 2012 in Technology 0 comments
The net net is that Storage Accelerator does not diminish what Virsto offers in View environments and the two potentially complement each other very well.
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Monday, April 02, 2012 in Technology 0 comments
What are you really doing when you deploy SSD? If you expect to increase the performance of your system by what the native performance capabilities of flash would suggest, you're in for a bit of a surprise.
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Monday, March 05, 2012 in Technology 0 comments
There are a couple of interesting storage enhancements in Hyper-V R3, including VHDX, ODX, built-in deduplication, support for SMB, and the introduction of the Resilient File System (ResFS).
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Wednesday, February 29, 2012 in Technology 0 comments
How would you like to hear this: “And the Oscar for best storage administrator performance from a virtual administrator who has had no formal storage training goes to…YOU!”
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Tuesday, February 14, 2012 in Technology 0 comments
When you think about the "great couples of the ages" - Marc Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, Bogie and Bacall, etc. - would you ever place your relationship with your hypervisor in that group?
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Thursday, December 15, 2011 in Technology 0 comments
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.
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2011 in Technology 0 comments
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?
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Monday, August 29, 2011 in Events, Technology 0 comments
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.
CONTINUE READING »
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...
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Tuesday, July 12, 2011 in Technology 0 comments
Much of that 74% savings comes from our very efficient thin provisioning implementation, so it won’t conflict with the benefits dedupe can provide.
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Wednesday, June 29, 2011 in Technology 0 comments
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?
CONTINUE READING »
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.
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Wednesday, June 01, 2011 in Technology 0 comments
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?
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Tuesday, April 12, 2011 in Technology 0 comments
If you’re about to embark on a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) project, what formula are you using to determine the storage configuration you need on the back end to meet your performance requirements?
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Tuesday, April 05, 2011 in News, Technology 1 comment
CONTINUE READING »
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.
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Friday, February 25, 2011 in Technology 0 comments
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.
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Monday, February 21, 2011 in Technology 0 comments
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.
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Friday, February 11, 2011 in Technology 0 comments
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.
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Tuesday, February 08, 2011 in Technology 0 comments
..use Virsto !
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Friday, December 03, 2010 in Technology 0 comments
We are extremely proud of the development team at Virsto Software. It is amazing how powerful a platform we have delivered in such a short time, with such a tight little team. It has been a pleasure to be a part of it.
As good as the team is, we need more people. We have a number of interesting projects in our roadmap, and we need help!
CONTINUE READING »
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 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.
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Tuesday, July 20, 2010 in Technology 0 comments
Let's wrap up this series by comparing deduplication (dedupe) with Virsto no dupe.
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Thursday, June 03, 2010 in Technology 0 comments
What is a clone, anyway?
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Thursday, May 20, 2010 in Technology 4 comments
Since our Virsto One announcement we have received a stream of questions regarding our data deduplication solution. This is understandable given the dedupe hype that media teams are pushing…
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…
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Friday, February 12, 2010 in Technology 0 comments
As part of Virsto's beta test program, we've had the pleasure of working with Windows IT professionals who know a lot about virtualization and Microsoft Windows Hyper-V. A couple of these customers have recommended blogs.
CONTINUE READING »
Posted Friday, July 10, 2009 in Technology 6 comments
This post was triggered by the latest VMWare article on DRS performance. I have been thinking and talking about this subject ever since I first saw a DRS demo at VMworld in September 2008 in Las Vegas.
DRS (Dynamic Resource Scheduler) is an awesome piece of technology…
CONTINUE READING »
© 2012 Virsto. All rights reserved. | Privacy & legal
