virtualization

This is the Data Storage Solution Your Boss Wants to Hear About

Is your boss a little out of date when it comes to current virtual storage technology trends? Do they hate spending money on data storage, yet expect a flawless solution with zero unplanned downtime?... And worse still, do they think a monolithic physical SAN is the best storage option to help your organization achieve its data storage goals? If so, [...]

Deploying StorMagic SvSAN on Linux KVM

StorMagic SvSAN is simple hyperconverged storage that eliminates downtime, delivering cost-effective high availability with only two servers. SvSAN is designed to be very simple to install and manage, and the technology is based on software-defined storage that eliminates the need for physical SANs. SvSAN is installed as a virtual storage appliance (VSA) on top of a hypervisor, and creates highly [...]

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.

Virtual SAN (VSAN) – A Beginner’s Guide

A virtual storage area network (SAN) is a software-based component that provides a virtualized ‘pool’ of storage to multiple virtual machines (VMs) and applications. In order to achieve this, data is passed (shared) between servers over a network using a protocol such as iSCSI or fibre channel.

Salvando tu compañía de la incertidumbre con SvSAN

¿Te preocupa tu estrategia de SDDC (Software Defined Data Center) y eres usuario activo de VMware? Nosotros te blindamos ante la incertidumbre con nuestra solución de SvSAN. StorMagic te invita a aprender más sobre nuestra solución SvSAN de hiperconvergencia. StorMagic SvSAN es una solución SAN virtual que ofrece computación y almacenamiento de alta disponibilidad en solo dos nodos por [...]

HPE Is Retiring StoreVirtual… Are You Prepared For What Comes Next?

StoreVirtual reaches End of Service Life on October 31, 2022. When HPE announced they would be retiring their solution back in 2019, it stirred up many questions from its users who relied heavily on the StoreVirtual product for the normal functioning of their organization, as well as the potential customers considering the solution. Naturally many wondered “Will there be another [...]

Application Modernization and Why Virtualization Is Still Required When Looking to Deploy Kubernetes

Over the past two decades, virtualization has become a standard building block for millions of applications. It triumphed because of its powerful abstraction over physical hardware, allowing for better use, management, automation, and security. However, with the introduction of Kubernetes and containers, it is common to question previous assumptions and ask whether it is better to use bare metal Linux [...]

SvSAN: Cuando La Hiperconvergencia Se Vuelve Fácil

StorMagic los invita a aprender más sobre nuestra solución SvSAN de hiperconvergencia. StorMagic SvSAN es una solución SAN virtual que ofrece computación y almacenamiento de alta disponibilidad en solo dos nodos por clúster hiperconvergente. Es una solución de software ligera, de bajo costo y altamente flexible perfecta para sitios de Edge, para grandes organizaciones con cientos de ubicaciones a compañías [...]