Virtualization needs shared storage for just about every advanced feature. In return, virtualization hypervisors have come up with some amazingly powerful features for optimizing storage. So far, ...

VMware vSphere 4 Enterprise Edition's thin-provisioning capability allows virtual machines to share disk-space allocation with other virtual machines. Configuring virtual machine instances with thin ...

Shared storage hardware is commonplace in larger organizations, but smaller ones typically can't justify the expense. But shared storage is required for many core virtualization features, including ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fungible Inc., the dynamic composable infrastructure company, today announced a new release of Fungible Storage Cluster ® (FSC) 4.1, providing support for VMware ...

If you’re like most people, you may think that spending time tuning your storage infrastructure is a luxury you can’t afford. In fact, it teaches you a great deal about what makes your storage tick.

VMware announced enhancements last week to its VMware vSphere, new versions of vShield 5, vCenter Site Recovery Manager and vCloud Director and a new vSphere Storage Appliance. VMware vSphere 5 now ...

Among the many improvements in VMware vSphere 5.0 is a new means to load balance virtual machine datastores: the Storage Dynamic Resource Scheduler, or Storage DRS. Like its pre-existing compute ...

As VMWorld begins, ISVs are lining up to steal some of the spotlight to launch new applications and appliances for the mega huge VMware installed base. Virsto opted to launch its latest offering – a ...

VMware last week introduced vSphere 4.1, it latest virtualization platform. vSphere 4.1 has a variety of storage offerings but primarily the vStorage API for Array integration (VAAI), which allows ...

I ask as we are replacing a production cluster of 9 hosts (current R710's with 72GB RAM each, 2 4 core CPU's) running vSphere 5.,0 enterprise + licenses. Primary VM storage back end is FC-8 to LSI ...

Gregg Holzrichter, Virsto's VP Marketing, and Eric Burgener, VP Product Management, were kind enough to stop by and brief me on version 2.0 of the company's Virsto for vSphere. Due to an illness in my ...

I'm having a heck of a time finding an answer to what should be a pretty simple question. Let's say I have two vSphere hosts. The hosts are connected to the production LAN for some traffic, and to a ...