UPDATED 12:35 EDT / APRIL 05 2011

Virsto’s New Storage Virtualization Software: Reduces Costs, Increases Efficiency

Today at the SNW conference, virtual servers and desktop solutions provider Virsto Software announced Virsto VDI, a hypervisor-based storage virtualization solution designed to drastically reduce the costs of virtual desktops deployment. The offering also aims to increase performance and end users’ desktop experience, and currently supports Citrix XenDesktop and Microsoft VDI running on Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.

What’s really interesting though, are the stats – according to a release, both the virtual desktop storage capacity consumption reduce and I/O increase easily pass the 50 and 60 percent landmarks.

“Hypervisor-based Virsto VDI dramatically increases I/O in virtualized environments while reducing virtual desktop storage capacity consumption by up to 90% and cost by more than 70%”

Virsto VDI offers increased storage utilization with higher VM storage density, and can scale a single project to thousands of virtual desktops, compared to the 50-100 images a single VDI usually supports. This is made possible thanks to the fact the offering provides unlimited snapshots and thin-provisioned clones. Moreover, in addition to maximizing the utilization of resources, Virtso also added software-driven storage tiering to decrease the provisioning of thousands of images to a matter of minutes.

Virtsto’s new product has a lot of very notable advantages, and the same can be said of Marvell’s new DragonFly Virtual Storage Accelerator set to launch later this year. DragonFlu was also announced in SNW, and the accelerator card lowers I/O per second by 10 times. The uniqueness of the product lies in the fact that the card needs to be deployed on individual servers and not on a storage level.

FCoE is the hottest topic at SNW Spring 2011, and networking giant Cisco displayed a lot of its interest in the field lately, with new product launches as well as a complete portfolio overhaul.


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