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How does storage virtualization ease storage management?
Learn how storage virtualization eases storage management by providing a consistent interface for all storage applications.
How do storage virtualization offerings differ?
There are numerous players in the storage virtualization market today, but I can categorize them as in-band vendors (typically appliances), out-of-band vendors and Split Path Architecture for Intelligent Devices (SPAID)...
Is the market ready for storage virtualization? Are the products ready?
The short answer is that the products are absolutely ready. It's taken three or four years to bring the products to this current level of maturity, but I can say that key products from the major players are all ready...
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Where should storage virtualization be done -- Host, network, array?
Let me discard host-based deployments upfront. Host-based storage virtualization was the first virtualization product...
Storage virtualization can help to improve storage utilization, so how does storage capacity planning and management play into storage virtualization?
The relationship is very synergistic. Suppose we have two equal Tier 1 storage boxes offering 1 terabyte (TB). I can create a pool...
Once a layer of storage virtualization is added to the storage infrastructure, how difficult is it to remove or "back out" of the virtualization later? What steps can be taken to improve success or minimize disruption if a "back out" is necessary?
Storage virtualization is a very strategic decision for a company to make. Be conscious of what you're doing, because reversing virtualization is not easy...
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Are there any known problems or limitations to storage virtualization products?
As a relatively new technology, storage virtualization products can vary in their maturity. For example...
Is there storage that should not be placed under the storage virtualization umbrella?
Suppose you have an isolated application that's out there "on the edge," it is working and doing its job in a satisfactory manner...
Are there other considerations beyond just storage? Servers, for instance?
Let me look at it from a server virtualization perspective. The idea behind server virtualization is...



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