VMware Agrees to Acquire Virsto to facilitate Software-led Infrastructure
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| - | <!--|body|-->VMware has agreed to acquire Virsto, and has estimated that the acquisition will be complete by the end of first quarter 2013. Virsto provides a virtualization storage layer below the VMware Hypervisor for Servers (Virsto Storage Hypervisor) to enable software-led (defined) storage for enterprises and cloud. Virsto | + | <!--|body|-->VMware has agreed to acquire Virsto, and has estimated that the acquisition will be complete by the end of first quarter 2013. Virsto provides a virtualization storage layer below the VMware Hypervisor for Servers (Virsto Storage Hypervisor) to enable software-led (defined) storage for enterprises and cloud. Virsto has its own file system in the same way hybrid storage providers such as Tintrí. This allows a one-to-one connection between VM IO queues and the target storage object. One benefit is to reduce the IO latency and improve bandwidth for IO that has gone through the VM "IO blender", and to provide an end-to-end performance dashboard by virtual machine (VM). The second is to eliminate the complexity of LUNs and provide a simpler VMware storage construct managed by VMware. |
Virsto also provides storage functions such as snapshots, Clones & Thin Provisioning to be provided as system-wide software functions, rather than storage array functions. The benefit is to allow potential of end-to-end performance information to be known to vSphere for server, network & storage, where the storage is provided by directly attached storage (DAS), JBOD or traditional storage array. | Virsto also provides storage functions such as snapshots, Clones & Thin Provisioning to be provided as system-wide software functions, rather than storage array functions. The benefit is to allow potential of end-to-end performance information to be known to vSphere for server, network & storage, where the storage is provided by directly attached storage (DAS), JBOD or traditional storage array. | ||
| - | One of the factors driving VMware to acquire Virsto was the announcement by Microsoft of [[Microsoft Attacks Storage with Windows 2012|Storage Spaces]] as a component of Windows Server 2012. VMware aiming to provide the same type of software-led services that Storage Spaces provides to Hyper-V and Windows 2012. This is a move away from the complex APIs that have previously been provided to help integrate storage arrays with VMware. This move is especially important for entry level SMB customers and their resellers, who will be able to provide the same function as storage arrays using lower cost DAS and JBOD. | + | One of the factors driving VMware to acquire Virsto was the announcement by Microsoft of [[Microsoft Attacks Storage with Windows 2012|Storage Spaces]] as a component of Windows Server 2012. VMware aiming to provide the same type of simplicity and software-led services that Storage Spaces provides to Hyper-V and Windows 2012. This is a move away from the complex APIs that have previously been provided to help integrate storage arrays with VMware. This move is especially important for entry level SMB customers and their resellers, who will be able to provide the same function as storage arrays using lower cost DAS and JBOD.<!--|body|--> |
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| - | '''Action Item: <!--|actionitem|-->VMware users should look forward to VMware integrating Virsto functionality quickly into its stack, and providing important softare-led storage functions on the road to software-led infrastructure. <!--|actionitem|--> | + | '''Action Item: <!--|actionitem|-->VMware users should look forward to VMware integrating Virsto functionality quickly into its stack, and providing important simplifying softare-led storage functions on the road to software-led infrastructure. <!--|actionitem|--> |
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[[Category:Hybrid Storage]][[Category: Professional alerts]][[Category: Software-led Infrastructure]][[Category: Software-led Storage]][[Category: Tintri]][[Category: VMware]][[Category: Virsto]] | [[Category:Hybrid Storage]][[Category: Professional alerts]][[Category: Software-led Infrastructure]][[Category: Software-led Storage]][[Category: Tintri]][[Category: VMware]][[Category: Virsto]] | ||
Revision as of 22:37, 11 February 2013
VMware has agreed to acquire Virsto, and has estimated that the acquisition will be complete by the end of first quarter 2013. Virsto provides a virtualization storage layer below the VMware Hypervisor for Servers (Virsto Storage Hypervisor) to enable software-led (defined) storage for enterprises and cloud. Virsto has its own file system in the same way hybrid storage providers such as Tintrí. This allows a one-to-one connection between VM IO queues and the target storage object. One benefit is to reduce the IO latency and improve bandwidth for IO that has gone through the VM "IO blender", and to provide an end-to-end performance dashboard by virtual machine (VM). The second is to eliminate the complexity of LUNs and provide a simpler VMware storage construct managed by VMware.
Virsto also provides storage functions such as snapshots, Clones & Thin Provisioning to be provided as system-wide software functions, rather than storage array functions. The benefit is to allow potential of end-to-end performance information to be known to vSphere for server, network & storage, where the storage is provided by directly attached storage (DAS), JBOD or traditional storage array.
One of the factors driving VMware to acquire Virsto was the announcement by Microsoft of Storage Spaces as a component of Windows Server 2012. VMware aiming to provide the same type of simplicity and software-led services that Storage Spaces provides to Hyper-V and Windows 2012. This is a move away from the complex APIs that have previously been provided to help integrate storage arrays with VMware. This move is especially important for entry level SMB customers and their resellers, who will be able to provide the same function as storage arrays using lower cost DAS and JBOD.
Action Item: VMware users should look forward to VMware integrating Virsto functionality quickly into its stack, and providing important simplifying softare-led storage functions on the road to software-led infrastructure.
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