Before Virsto One
In the physical world, the ratio of operating system (OS) instances to boxes was 1. Virtual Machine (VM) technology blows this up, not only with all the live VMs, but all the other images that are suspended, saved for backup or rollback, etcetera. It is not hard to build a data center with tens – even hundreds – of thousands of VM images. That sucks up a lot of disk space.
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IT pros say that, all things being equal, virtual servers consume 15-25% more storage than physical servers. VM sprawl has a direct hardware budget impact, as well as an ongoing operating cost burden.
The irony is that the vast majority of the bits inside those images are exactly the same, because the VMs are cloned from a small set of golden masters, and a lot of the bits in a VM don’t change as the VM runs. Deduplication could help here, but in this use case, dedupe is more of a bug than a feature. If the storage infrastructure was built right, dupes wouldn’t be created in the first place.
With Virsto One
Ignoring the sprawl issue just continues propagation of escalating storage costs, aka buy more storage. Virsto One offers a solution that addresses the sprawl problem with the following benefits:
- Working with any type storage; high end and commodity storage
- Reduces VM disk consumption >90%
- Unlimited VM optimized high performance, snapshots and clones
Working with any storage, means exactly that - SCSI, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, SATA, SSD. Regardless of storage type, VM disk consumption savings will be >90% without any change to workloads. And that is where savings are captured.
We want you to make a lot of snapshots and clones. We realize that in today's busy workflow, you need to create a lot of clones. You shouldn't be penalized for this workflow behavior. Virsto One offers you this capability, and more.
Other solution use cases are outlined below:
