Virsto Software, the leading provider of storage hypervisor software, today
announced that it is shipping Virsto 2.5 for Windows Server Hyper-V. The new
product allows users to increase existing physical storage utilization by up to
90 percent, to accelerate virtual machine (VM) provisioning and management by up
to 99 percent, and to reduce the cost of storage in virtual environments by up
to 70 percent.
With the release of Virsto 2.5 for Windows Server Hyper-V, Virsto delivers a
100 percent software storage abstraction layer with advanced storage
capabilities directly to Hyper-V, extending the benefits of virtualization
beyond the server and transforming Hyper-V into a storage hypervisor.
Virsto 2.5 for Windows Server Hyper-V provides customers with a suite of
capabilities that fundamentally reduces the cost and complexity of storage in
virtualized environments by improving storage utilization and performance, while
delivering VM storage self-provisioning, automated storage space reclamation and
high-performance thin provisioning. New product features include:
- Enhanced VMM support: Virsto now delivers enhanced support for Hyper-V
and the Microsoft Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) by
provisioning Virsto vDisks within the existing VMM GUI and workflow.
No scripting, seamless integration, 90 percent more storage
utilization. Private and public cloud implementations can use this
capability to enable instant self-service VM provisioning at extremely
low cost.
- Bulk VM provisioning wizards: Virsto's one-click VM provisioning
option enables provisioning of the highest performance VHDs for new
virtual machines in seconds -- not 20 minutes per VM that normal
provisioning requires.
- Seamless backup and recovery: Virsto integrates transparently with
Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM) and Windows Volume Shadow Copy
Service (VSS) functions to give customers seamless, automated backup
and recovery.
- Advanced tiering for solid state and rotating storage: Virsto supports
up to four distinct storage tiers, providing the most flexibility to
manage business priorities, QoS, and costs for any hardware, allowing
IT organizations to optimally utilize SSD, Fibre Channel, SAS, and
SATA disks.
- Systems Center Operations Manager Management Pack: Virsto offers a new
Systems Center Operations Manager Management (SCOM) pack that takes
integration with Windows Server Hyper-V to the next level. Customers
can deploy Virsto while they continue to manage the Hyper-V
environment within native workflows.
"Virsto has been a significant Microsoft Hyper-V partner
for years. Virsto 2.5 for Windows Server Hyper-V delivers added value to System
Center, with additional tools that help businesses create, manage and monitor a
dynamic storage environment and reap the full benefits of their infrastructure
investments. Virsto continues to deliver differentiated features and
functionality to Hyper-V R2 today and will to the Hyper-V R3 platform when it
ships with Windows 8." -- Mark Davis, CEO, Virsto
"As Windows Server Hyper-V increasingly becomes the virtualization solution
of choice for strategic workloads in the enterprise, customers look to
Microsoft's partners to offer differentiated solutions that fill specific needs.
Companies like Virsto extend Windows Server Hyper-V to deliver additional
benefits in virtual machine storage provisioning, VM performance and storage
space efficiency, helping Microsoft deliver differentiated value to its
customers." -- Mike Schultz, senior director, Windows Server and Virtualization,
Microsoft