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Virsto Arms Enterprises With Hypervisor-Based Storage Virtualisation Software

Published on 31 Aug 2011

Virsto™ Software, an innovative provider of VM-centric storage-hypervisor software, today became the industry’s first multi-hypervisor solution provider to address the storage challenges specific to virtualised environments with Virsto for VDI, vSphere Edition. 

Extending support to VMware vSphere represents a significant milestone in the company’s product roadmap and vision. Virsto for VDI, vSphere Edition, offers a new, no-compromise approach to storage virtualisation; it enhances the advantages of vSphere by delivering consistent high performance, with storage thin provisioning and greatly simplified, self-service bulk provisioning of VMs, all managed through a seamless integration with the vCenter management interface.

Just as the hypervisor did for servers, Virsto’s technology is delivering new levels of efficiency, affordability and performance for storage in virtualised environments. Traditionally, provisioning storage in virtualised environments forced the user to choose between production-level performance and efficient storage capacity utilisation. With its hypervisor-agnostic, software-based approach to storage virtualisation, Virsto is currently the only company to combine performance and efficiency to fundamentally transform the economics of storage for virtual machines (VMs.)

Virsto for VDI, first launched in April 2011, is a hypervisor-based storage virtualisation software solution proven to reduce overall storage costs for VDI projects by 70 percent or more. Virsto arms enterprises with new storage efficiency and performance gains to help remove one of the largest obstacles to VDI adoption, the excessive cost of storage per virtual desktop.

Virsto’s no-compromise storage virtualisation delivers:

• Efficiency: High performance, space-efficient Virsto vClones use up to 90 percent less storage capacity than traditional approaches. Virsto delivers fixed VMDK performance, with thin provisioned VMs.

• Affordability: Virsto changes the economics of storage for VDI, delivering significantly improved I/O performance, while reducing back-end hardware requirements up to 90 percent, reducing the cost of storage per desktop by over 70 percent. Virsto provides enhanced performance and high-end storage management features to lower cost arrays, while improving performance of SSD-based storage.

• Agility: Virsto simplifies and accelerates virtual desktop provisioning at scale through a rapid-provisioning wizard within vCenter and enables self-service VM storage provisioning and management. Thousands of VDI instances can be provisioned in minutes, while unlimited snapshots and thin-provisioned clones enable projects to easily scale to tens of thousands of virtual desktops. *



 

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