Storage Virtualization: overview & Technologies
Storage virtualization forms an integral part of any virtualized environment you are planning for your enterprise environment. It provides a way for many users or applications to access storage without being concerned with where or how that storage is physically located or managed.
Virtualizing storage networks enables two key additional capabilities:
- The ability to mask or hide volumes from servers that are not authorized to access those volumes, providing an additional level of security.
- The ability to change and grow volumes on the fly to meet the needs of individual servers.
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SAN Virtualization Technologies:
Compellent virtualizes at the disk level, accelerating data access by spreading read/write operations across all disk drives in the SAN so multiple requests are processed in parallel. Compellent virtualization allows you to create high performance, highly efficient virtual volumes in just seconds without allocating drives to specific servers, without complicated capacity planning and without performance tuning.
Compellent's key storage virtualization benefits -
- Compellent is the optimal storage platform for server virtualization
- Create hundreds of virtual servers quickly with no wasted storage capacity
- Industry-leading storage virtualization manages data inside the volume
- Feature-rich SAN enables unmatched server virtualization functionality to reduce hardware costs, simplify management and provide robust disaster recovery
- Seamlessly integrates with every virtual server platform to create integrated data center virtualization
- Block-level virtualization creates high performance, redundant virtual volumes with any combination of disk drives
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