What is storage virtualization?

The most popular understanding of storage virtualization is the abstract representation of storage hardware resources. By integrating one (or more) target services or functions with other additional functions, we can uniformly provide useful comprehensive functional services. Typical virtualization includes the following situations: shielding the complexity of the system, adding or integrating new functions, simulating, integrating or decomposing existing service functions, etc. Virtualization is used for one or more entities that provide storage resources and/or services. There is a story in the field of virtualization: a good virtualization solution is like visiting a virtual reality theme park. When tourists imagine that they are gliding over the city, the sensor will convey the corresponding real feelings to the tourists and hide the real mechanical environment.

Similarly, a good virtualization tool can do the same work for enterprise storage devices, but the process may in turn first establish a framework to make the data feel stored in the real physical environment, and then the operator can arbitrarily change the location of the data storage, while ensuring the centralized security of the data. What exactly is virtualization technology? In fact, in a broad sense, it is to shield the complexity of physical equipment through mapping or abstraction, increase a management level, activate a resource, and make it easier to control transparently. IT can effectively simplify the management of infrastructure and improve the utilization and capacity of IT resources such as servers, networks or storage. Storage virtualization is a technology that runs through the entire IT environment and is used to simplify the underlying infrastructure that might otherwise be relatively complex. The concept of storage virtualization is to separate the logical image of resources from physical storage, thus providing a simplified and seamless view of virtual resources for systems and administrators.