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 is one of the main enablers of enterprise features in virtualization. This component of the infrastructure makes things like vMotion, high availability and Distributed Resource ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Oracle has licensed VMware vSphere® Storage APIs to enable customers to more easily manage Oracle storage from VMware environments. VMware users and service providers will be able to more easily take ...

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 ...

Virsto's storage hypervisor provides the most efficient provisioning, management and utilization of storage for the software-defined datacenter Virsto Software, an innovative provider of VM-centric ...

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 ...

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 ...