Storage virtualization

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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