The virtualization of storage is really helpful to target storage allocation and information management issues in the right manner. And it is a necessary requirement for achieving business continuity and disaster recovery.
Additionally, the increase in unorganized data versus the availability of storage is driving corporate investments in storage virtualization, information life cycle management and back-up / archival technologies, with the latter receiving the most attention.
This is the reason we are constantly developing our storage, virtualization and open source tools, not just to exploit information technologies more effectively, but also to ensure our resources remain automated as far as possible, and propose optimum solutions in terms of cost and service quality.
While discussing this topic with our existing and potential customers, we have noticed they also believe that storage virtualization can provide a comprehensive solution to help their businesses to reduce operating and infrastructure costs, optimize performance and will simplify the resource management.
Actually the main purpose of storage virtualization is the linking of existing divided storage systems for the central provision of all available information and data, which is an important step towards to complete demands of IT systems.
Brief Introduction:
The storage virtualization is particularly suitable to server virtualization (VMWare ESX Server). Basic architectures for virtual machines (VM) require shared storage in order to switch the VM to a physical machine to another (Vmotion). The service provider presents a unified virtual storage space which spreads over two separate physical disks. It is beneficial, because in case of failure of the virtual machine, or a disk, the system guarantees for access to data without causing interruption to users.
Features:
- Optimal use of the full storage capacity
- Automatically allocate disk space on demand
- Reduce to uncover minimum physical space requirements
- Grouped into pools of storage disks from multiple storage units
- Eliminate system downtime related to storage, whether planned or unplanned
- Add, move, and upgrade disks without rebooting the storage servers
- Guarantee of continuous access to data despite hardware failures, software or manipulation
- Accelerate the performance input / output arrays existing
- Match the levels of quality of service (QoS) and load storage
- Apportion liability and administrative fees between individual storage areas, while retaining overall control centralized
- Integrate economic practices of business continuity and disaster recovery at the local, regional and global
- Quickly restore applications with replication
- Use the existing storage units by facilitating the integration of new technologies imposed by the new business requirements
