hypervisor

Manage Your Dependence on VMware vSphere

VMware’s position in the virtualization marketplace has led to a high dependency on their products, particularly vSphere. Now, following their acquisition by Broadcom, there has been changes to VMware licensing, causing an interest amongst its users to consider alternative virtualization products. But having been reliant on these solutions for upwards of a decade in some cases, this shift away [...]

Running StorMagic SvSAN on a Microsoft Hyper-V Hypervisor

Following the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom, many dissatisfied VMware users have been forced to adapt or reassess their virtualization infrastructure. Many do not have the budget or need to purchase VMware’s Cloud Foundation (VCF) or vSphere Foundation (VVF) package bundles. Naturally, this has forced these otherwise loyal customers to explore alternative storage virtualization options. A powerful hypervisor, Microsoft [...]

Consider Alternatives Now to Prepare for Broadcom’s VMware Acquisition Fallout

Been keeping up with the news lately? If so, you'll already be aware that the VMware acquisition by Broadcom was officially completed late last year. As we all predicted, this has created significant disruption, resulting in significant layoffs, changes to the structure and cost of licenses for their 500,000+ existing customers, and the closure of VMware’s partner program. Many [...]

All About Hypervisors: ESXi vs Hyper-V, XenServer, Proxmox, KVM, and AHV

In the ever-evolving landscape of Information Technology (IT), the role of virtualization has become indispensable, and at the heart of this transformative technology lie hypervisors. Also known as virtual machine monitors, hypervisors play a pivotal role in enabling the creation and management of multiple virtual environments on a single physical server. As organizations increasingly seek to optimize resource utilization, enhance [...]

Virtualized Storage – A Beginner’s Guide

Virtualized storage, or storage virtualization, is a technological concept developed within the past few decades. It enables organizations to remove the traditional boundaries of physical storage devices, by abstracting the disks and drives, and presenting them as a single, centralized pool of storage capacity.

StorMagic SvSAN 6.3 Compatibility with vSphere 7.0 and Hyper-V 2022

Downtime, cost, and performance are massively important factors for companies today when it comes to choosing IT infrastructure and solutions. Thanks to physical SANs and legacy IT hardware filling up floor space, adding complexity, and cutting heavily into department budgets, many organizations have switched to a virtualized environment. Doing so benefits users greatly by enabling the hyperconvergence of compute, networking [...]

Infographic: SvSAN on KVM Hypervisors

StorMagic SvSAN can be installed on a Linux KVM hypervisor, creating the lowest cost way to deploy highly available hyperconverged clusters. By using a KVM hypervisor with SvSAN, organizations eliminate the hypervisor tax and combined with the lightweight 2-node cluster architecture for SvSAN, organizations can reduce their solution costs by over 60%. The benefits of leveraging a KVM hypervisor when [...]

Avoid the Hypervisor Tax: A Highly Available 2-Node KVM HCI Solution

The costs and complexities of typical hypervisors are creating more and more headaches for organizations. Escalating license fees and upgrade costs, allied to restrictive and demanding system requirements to enable the advanced hypervisor features necessary for modern IT are prompting business leaders to look elsewhere for their virtualization software. The open-source Linux KVM hypervisor is what business leaders are turning [...]

Avoid the ‘Hypervisor Tax’ with Linux KVM Hypervisors

When implementing virtualized IT infrastructure, a hypervisor is commonly used to create and run virtual machines (VMs). A hypervisor is a piece of software that helps divide and allocate resources on various pieces of hardware. It enables multiple operating systems to run on a single host, simultaneously. While there are many benefits to implementing a hypervisor within your organization’s [...]

StorMagic Expands Partnership with Nutanix, Introducing New Product Validations with SvKMS

StorMagic has joined the Nutanix Elevate Technology Alliance Partner Program, and our encryption key management solution, SvKMS, has been validated with Nutanix data encryption and their AHV hypervisor. What Does This Mean? SvKMS has been named a Nutanix Ready validated solution, for customers looking to implement a third party key manager with Nutanix built-in encryption, or that want to operate [...]

StorMagic SvSAN Compatibility with VMware vSphere 7.0

Many of today’s organizations are modernizing their traditional IT infrastructure, in an effort to save money, improve performance, and reduce downtime. They are taking steps to virtualize their environments by replacing their clunky, physical IT equipment, with virtualized systems that enable the hyperconvergence of compute, networking, and storage resources. Storage virtualization enables the pooling of physical storage from multiple storage [...]