The Flash Virtualization Platform (FVP) lets any server running the software to access flash resources installed on another host in the cluster. FVP installs into the VMware vSphere kernel, uses the same resources as the vSphere hypervisor, and can piggyback on the vMotion virtual network. The software is managed as a tab in vCenter.
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Wednesday, August 7, 2013
PernixData virtualizes server-side flash caching
PernixData Inc. this week launched its server-side Flash Virtualization Platform, which allows organizations to share flash caching across clustered servers running VMware.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Coraid EtherDrive helps Emerson College simplify its VM management
When the three-person IT team at Boston-based Emerson College decided to simplify the communications and arts institution's data center, the first thing to go was tape. Fibre Channel was next.
The college replaced its direct-to-tape backup system with a disk-to-disk off-site replication product, according to Frankie Frain, Emerson's manager of network systems. No surprise there, since many IT groups have gone from tape to disk backup.
Switching from Fibre Channel (FC) to Ethernet storage is also not unheard of, although FC is far from being as endangered as tape. But what Emerson did that was different was to move to two Coraid EtherDrive SRX arrays, rather than a more common iSCSI Ethernet storage system, while it consolidated servers with VMware in May 2012.
Monday, February 25, 2013
GreenBytes launches virtual appliance to reduce storage for VDI
GreenBytes is rolling out a virtual appliance version of its IO Offload Engine hardware device built to store virtual desktop images more efficiently and transmit them faster.
VIO is software that runs inside VMware Inc.'s ESXi hypervisor. It offloads virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) swap disk and operating system I/O to flash storage, such as PCI Express cards, local solid-state storage disk, or networked storage solid-state storage controllers.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
VMware software-defined data center bolstered by Virsto acquisition
VMware Inc. characterized its acquisition of storage software startup Virsto Software Corp. this week as a piece of its software-defined data center strategy. Perhaps it is also a move to keep Microsoft at bay now that Hyper-V is gaining recognition as a viable alternative to VMware's hypervisors.
Virsto refers to its software as a "storage hypervisor" because it sets out to virtualize storage the way VMware and other vendors' hypervisors virtualize servers. Virsto consists of a storage software appliance and a service that runs inside the hypervisor on the physical host, and promises to optimize block-storage performance, capacity utilization and provisioning.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Storage hypervisor solves city's VM management and performance problem
Moving its physical servers into a VMware vSphere virtualized environment three years ago caused a problem for the city of San Luis Obispo, Calif., IT team. City Network Services Supervisor Miguel Guardado found he constantly needed more spindles for his Dell Compellent storage array to keep up with IOPS requirements.
He eventually solved the problem by letting Virsto Software Corp. VM management software do much of the work, but not until after he made several hardware additions.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Nimble, GlassHouse each deliver VDI reference architecture
With storage vendors paying close attention to virtual desktop infrastructure deployments, array vendor Nimble Storage and consultancy GlassHouse Technologies Inc. recently published reference architectures for configuring virtual desktops with VMware View.
The VDI reference architectures include guidelines for the required computing, server virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) software and storage infrastructure. The companies tested and validated the VDI systems for simplified and accelerated virtual desktop deployments.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Virsto Software digs deeper into VM storage management
Virsto Software Corp. today expanded its VMware storage management features with Virsto for vSphere 1.5, adding more integration into vSphere workloads, rapid-deployment wizards for VMware View virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments, and improved migration with Storage vMotion.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
SanDisk releases FlashSoft flash caching software for vSphere
SanDisk Corp. today introduced the VMware vSphere server virtualization version of its FlashSoft flash caching software, which is designed to accelerate application performance and virtual machine (VM) density.
FlashSoft released Windows Server and Linux versions of the flash caching software prior to its acquisition by SanDisk in February 2012.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Virsto software adds support for XenDesktop VDI environments
Virsto Software Corp. has identified improving virtual desktop storage performance as a major area where its software aimed at improving virtual machine (VM) I/O can help. This week it released a beta version of Virsto for Citrix Systems Inc.’s XenDesktop 5.5 virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) platform on VMware vSphere.
Virsto for XenDesktop follows the company’s vSphere support release in January and its initial product launch for Microsoft Hyper-V in February 2010.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Tucci at Oracle OpenWorld: Cloud transition will prove disruptive
Private cloud storage, cloud computing and virtualization will be the keys to dealing with the massive data deluge hitting the IT world, EMC Corp. CEO Joseph Tucci said Monday in his Oracle OpenWorld keynote address in San Francisco.
The theme of EMC World 2011 in May was “cloud meets Big Data,” and Tucci and EMC president Pat Gelsinger brought those topics to Oracle customers this week. Tucci and Gelsinger didn’t make any stunning announcements during their keynote presentations, but they did reiterate EMC’s commitment to the cloud, VMware’s virtualization platform and solid-state storage.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Tips for protecting data on VMware virtual machines
Backing up data is a lot more complex in VMware virtual machine environments. Jeff Boles, senior analyst and director, validation services at Hopkinton, Mass.-based Taneja Group, discusses the challenges of protecting data in virtual environments and the best technologies available from VMware and third-party challengers. This podcast is also available below as an MP3 download.
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