Definition:
Storage virtualization divides physical storage into numerous devices that appear to be a single storage device. It is also a collection of available storage devices managed from a central console.
This virtualization gives several benefits, including quick data backup, achievement, and recovery. This entire process takes very little time and is quite efficient. Storage virtualization in Cloud Computing masks the true complexity of the Storage Area Network (SAN). This virtualization applies to all SAN levels.
Why is storage virtualization required?
Despite the push for digital transformation, IT departments are held back by the ongoing requirement to administer, tune, and maintain storage infrastructure that supports apps and data. To achieve high storage availability, IT must deal with hardware complexity and administrative expense.
Surveyed firms believe that fragmented data visibility across hybrid clouds creates business risk. Organizations must radically alter the piecemeal technology used to manage data and infrastructure. They must dismantle all the complexity and silos for their data and infrastructure throughout the hybrid cloud.
How can it assist enterprises?
By incorporating virtual storage into the infrastructure environment, IT can avoid overprovisioning, decrease infrastructure costs, and accelerate reaction times to any business demand. Storage virtualization allows IT to focus less on administration and more on innovation.
Furthermore, organizations that update and virtualize their storage gain a competitive advantage by reducing interruptions, limiting unexpected downtime, eliminating data migrations, and simplifying upgrades.
Advantages to your enterprise by virtualizing your storage
Less expensive: Because virtual storage does not necessitate the normal hardware redundancy required in standard enterprise storage systems for disaster recovery, fewer appliances and software licenses are required. Virtualization saves businesses money by avoiding significant upfront financial commitments.
Time saved: Virtualized storage can reduce scheduled and unplanned downtime and make updating far less time-consuming and disruptive.
Scalability: With virtual storage, enterprises no longer need to foresee or pay for their long-term storage demands. Instead, IT can use dynamic provisioning to respond to changing demands in the market.
Easier management: Virtual storage simplifies and improves resource consumption by allowing quick storage addition/deletion without disrupting programs. It also allows for easy data movement and the implementation of additional features across the storage pool.
Reduced risk: If a disc drive, storage controller, or power supply fails, each is already replicated in the virtual array, reducing the chance of disruption. This virtual redundancy improves storage efficiency and flexibility while limiting sluggish performance.
Increased productivity: Virtual storage provides 100% availability and the potential to expedite app and service deployments, allowing for faster value realization.
Improved efficiency: The most significant advantage is faster storage with improved capacity utilization. It also improves data access and processing stability. Furthermore, virtual storage provides 100% use and little possibility of capacity exhaustion.
Datacore vFilo
Next-generation distributed DataCore vFilO software provides file and object storage virtualization as it supports storage from NAS (Network Attached Storage) systems, SAN (Storage Area Networking), and DAS (Direct Attached Storage), as well as Object Storage. DataCore vFilO offers unprecedented visibility and control over widely dispersed data spread over NAS, file servers, and object stores through a multi-site, keyword-searchable global namespace.
While supporting NFS, SMB, and S3 protocol access to the same data set, vFilO combines the abilities of a scale-out distributed file system with those of an object storage system. It also can continuously load, balance, manage, optimize, and migrate data between active primary and secondary tiers. Deduplicated, compressed, and relocated static data to cheaper storage, such as a cloud S3 bucket. Enterprise-class data services from DataCore provide live data mobility, self-service undelete, snapshots/clones, and replication at any level of granularity and not restricted by hardware infrastructure or region.
