Virtualization is a wonderful thing, but it has some deleterious storage side effects. IT professionals tell us existing storage solutions aren’t horrible, but they’re far from adequate.
Despite the many ways in which breakthrough virtualization technologies have changed data centers for the better, one major challenge exists: storage. Almost all of today’s techniques and technologies for storage management were built for physical – not virtual – servers. If virtual servers worked just like physical servers, that’d be fine. But many of the assumptions made by designers of storage for physical servers just aren’t true for virtual servers.
Our goal is to eliminate the storage roadblocks to spectacular virtual server success. Better performance, less storage consumed, lower OpEx, ability to use more commodity storage where appropriate, fewer headaches. If that sounds good to you, Virsto One can help.
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Sooner or later, if you virtualize your servers, you’ll have some if not all of the issues we’re describing. Read on to learn how virtual servers break storage in our use cases and how we are addressing the challenges.
