Storage Virtualization Research & News

Storage virtualization refers to the process of abstracting logical storage from physical storage. The physical storage resources are aggregated into storage pools, from which the logical storage is created. More storage systems, which may be heterogeneous in nature, can be added as and when needed, and the virtual storage space will scale up by the same amount. This process is fully transparent to the applications using the storage infrastructure.

Related terms: non-disruptive data migration, storage consolidation, heterogeneous storage