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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

VMware’s vSphere and Microsoft’s Hyper-V are the two leading platforms for server virtualization. Although they provide similar features and functionality, the way they manage storage for virtual ...

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 ...

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 ...

ESXi will be installed on a flash drive and the mechanical drives will be in a RAID10 array (8 drives) - but I'm not sure which storage controller I should go with. Due to cost considerations I will ...