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managing virtual storage is an important element of managing any IT infrastructure. This kind of storage, unlike physical hardware where you can easily replace devices with superior ones or swap them out, is more complex and requires management tools to get the most of it.
Virtualization is the best way to handle complexity. It lets you pool resources and create a storage solution that can handle a larger amount of data. Virtualization is available on a number of platforms such as network appliances that offer centralized storage to your applications, and virtualized storage software which uses the hardware that is used to provide the same storage pool to your system.
For instance, a network appliance could use physical Fibre Channel (FC) or iSCSI SAN to present a storage pool that appears to be a single disk, logically connected to the server or host. It receives input and output (I/O) requests and forwards the requests to a different physical location within the storage pool, without the server or host knowing what is happening behind the scene. The mapping granularity affects how quickly meta-data is updated, how much storage space is required during the migration process, and how fast an old physical location will become free.
Virtualized storage solutions also offer high availability by mirroring data between multiple servers. This ensures you won’t lose critical business data when one of your server nodes fails. The data will be automatically redirected to other servers that are healthy within the cluster.