Within the context of a storage system, there are two primary types of virtualization that can occur: Block virtualization used in this context refers...

computer. In hardware virtualization, the host machine is the machine that is used by the virtualization and the guest machine is the virtual machine. The words...

components of virtual machines in hardware virtualization, but they are also widely used for various purposes unrelated to virtualization, such as for...

hard disk drives. Server virtualization, or Full virtualization, partitions a single physical server into multiple virtual machines, consolidating multiple...

In computing, virtual memory, or virtual storage, is a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that...

underlying hardware. Software-defined storage typically includes a form of storage virtualization to separate the storage hardware from the software that manages...

A virtual tape library (VTL) is a data storage virtualization technology used typically for backup and recovery purposes. A VTL presents a storage component...

Hardware virtualization is the virtualization of computers as complete hardware platforms, certain logical abstractions of their componentry, or only the...

a data storage management-related category. The term is used interchangeably with NAS virtualization and file virtualization among data storage industry...

metadata updates, handling of very long paths and filenames, and storage virtualization and pooling, including almost arbitrarily sized logical volumes...

OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances...

array of independent disks) is a data storage virtualization technology that combines multiple physical data storage components into one or more logical...

performance degradation. Storage virtualization is the process of abstracting logical storage from physical storage. The physical storage resources are aggregated...

a virtual network. Network virtualization involves platform virtualization, often combined with resource virtualization. Network virtualization is categorized...

Desktop virtualization can be used in conjunction with application virtualization and user profile management systems, now termed user virtualization, to...

software and hardware appliance company specializing in storage virtualization and software-defined storage. StarWind Software began in 2008 as a spin-off from...

hardware-assisted virtualization, with virtualization-specific hardware features on the host CPUs providing assistance to hypervisors. Process virtual machines...

A virtual storage area network (virtual SAN, VSAN or vSAN) is a logical representation of a physical storage area network (SAN). A VSAN abstracts the storage-related...

computer is switched off. IBM used capacitor read-only storage (CROS) and transformer read-only storage (TROS) to store microcode for the smaller System/360...

attached storage (NAS) arrays Storage area network (SAN) arrays: Modular SAN arrays Monolithic SAN arrays Utility Storage Arrays Storage virtualization Primary...

software-defined storage based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. The company is a pioneer in the development of SAN virtualization technology, and...

behaviour seen in traditional disks or tape storage through storage virtualization. Blocks are identified by an arbitrary and assigned identifier by which...

Fast Virtual Disk (better known as FVD) is a virtualization-oriented disk image file format developed by IBM for the QEMU virtualization platform. It...

deep to extend the functions of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform to multivendor storage through virtualization. Offload less-critical data to external...

Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) is an IBM direct-access storage device (DASD) file storage access method, first used in the OS/VS1, OS/VS2 Release...

multiplexing Storage hypervisor Storage virtualization Fractional-reserve banking Mike Laverick. "Thin provisioning myth-busters: The benefits of thin virtual disks"...

block storage virtualization appliance that belongs to the IBM System Storage product family. SVC implements an indirection, or "virtualization", layer...

as GPFS before IBM re-branded all storage products in 2015. IBM Spectrum Virtualize is a block storage virtualization system. Because the IBM Storwize...

has several uses including as primary storage. In addition to usually being faster than forms of mass storage such as a hard disk drive, volatility can...

times, underscoring the primary advantage of data virtualization. However, with data virtualization, the connection to all necessary data sources must...