Storage Virtualisation
Storage virtualisation increases utilisation rates dramatically, whilst lowering the total cost of ownership.
- Lower Cost of Ownership - Centrally managed virtual storage allows fewer people to manage the increasing amounts of storage
- Simplified Storage Capacity Management - Focus on storage requirements instead of on size, type and characteristics of individual physical disk drives. Storage increased by simply adding virtual volumes, mixing and matching drives of any capacity or type
- Simplified Configuration - Easy to configure the storage to a specific environment
- Simplified Allocation of Storage - Storage carved out into virtual volumes that can be allocated to servers when necessary and then returned to the storage pool for reallocation
- Centralised Storage in a Heterogeneous Environment - Different servers with different operating systems can be attached to and share a massive, centralised storage pool
- Efficient Utilisation of Capacity - Schemes exist for distributing the data across any and all available storage resources allowing the system greater flexibility in how the storage is configured ie. for redundancy, performance or consolidation