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    Storage Virtualization

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    Storage virtualization abstracts physical storage resources to make them appear as a centralized resource. It pools storage devices from various suppliers and networks and introduces them as a single storage pool to applications. The main types of storage virtualization are hypervisor, hardware-assisted, para-virtualization, and kernel level virtualization. Advantages include advanced functions, avoiding downtime during migration, dynamic storage use, and quick addition or removal of storage without affecting programs.

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    Storage virtualization abstracts physical storage resources to make them appear as a centralized resource. It pools storage devices from various suppliers and networks and introduces them as a single storage pool to applications. The main types of storage virtualization are hypervisor, hardware-assisted, para-virtualization, and kernel level virtualization. Advantages include advanced functions, avoiding downtime during migration, dynamic storage use, and quick addition or removal of storage without affecting programs.

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    Storage virtualization abstracts physical storage resources to make them appear as a centralized resource. It pools storage devices from various suppliers and networks and introduces them as a single storage pool to applications. The main types of storage virtualization are hypervisor, hardware-assisted, para-virtualization, and kernel level virtualization. Advantages include advanced functions, avoiding downtime during migration, dynamic storage use, and quick addition or removal of storage without affecting programs.

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    Storage virtualization abstracts physical storage resources to make them appear as a centralized resource. It pools storage devices from various suppliers and networks and introduces them as a single storage pool to applications. The main types of storage virtualization are hypervisor, hardware-assisted, para-virtualization, and kernel level virtualization. Advantages include advanced functions, avoiding downtime during migration, dynamic storage use, and quick addition or removal of storage without affecting programs.

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    What is Storage Virtualization in Cloud Computing?

    The technology of abstracting physical data storage resources is storage virtualization to make them
    look as if they were a centralized resource. In memory, networks, servers, and storage, virtualization
    masks the complexity of managing resources.

    Virtualization of storage runs on several storage devices, making them appear as if they were a
    single pool of storage. Pooled storage devices may come from various suppliers and networks. The
    virtualization storage engine defines aggregates and handles the available storage space from
    various arrays and storage media and introduces it to applications.

    Types of Storage Virtualization


    1. Hypervisor Virtualization
    A hypervisor is a layer between the hardware and the operating system. Multiple operating systems
    can operate with the aid of hypervisors. It also provides functionality and essential services that help
    OS function properly.

    2. Hardware-Assisted Virtualization
    This form of virtualization needs help from the hardware. This is equivalent to absolute Para-
    virtualization. Here, the unmodified OS can be used as virtualization hardware support and we can
    also use it to manage requests for access to hardware and protect operations.

    3. Para-Virtualization
    It's based on a hypervisor that manages software emulation and trapping. Here, before running it on
    any additional computer, the guest operating system is updated. The updated framework interacts
    with the hypervisor directly and enhances output.

    4. Kernel Level Virtualization


    It runs a separate Linux Kernel version. The Kernel level allows multiple servers to be run on a single
    host. To communicate between the main Linux Kernel and the virtual machine, it uses a system
    driver. A special type of Server Virtualization is this virtualization.

    5. Full Virtualization
    This virtualization is equivalent to Para-Virtualization. In this, the hypervisor traps the function of the
    computer that the operating system is using to perform the operations. It emulates, in particular,
    software and the returned status codes after trapping the operations.

    Advantages of Storage Virtualization


    The following are the advantages of storage virtualization:

     Storage Systems are capable of performing advanced functions such as disaster recovery,
    duplication, data replication & data re-duplication.
     Avoids downtime during the migration of data. Virtualization functions in the background to
    retain the logical address of the data to maintain access.
     Enables dynamic use of storage and virtual scalability, both block and file, of attached
    storage resources.
     Data in a very convenient place is processed. This is because the data on the host failure is
    not inherently affected.
     It allows storage to be added and removed quickly without affecting any programme.

    Importance of Storage virtualization


     WAN Environment: WAN accelerator is used to locally cache the data and display it in a
    LAN velocity instead of sending several copies of the same data over WAN and does not
    affect the performance of the WAN.
     File Server: To keep it isolated and protected from local users, the OS writes the data to a
    remote server site.
     Storage Tiering: This methodology analyses and extracts the most widely used data using
    the storage system as a bridge or as a stepping stone and positions it on the best performing
    storage pool and the least used data in the lowest performance storage pool.
     SAN Storage: The storage is presented by SAN technology as block-level storage & the
    storage is displayed over the OS Ethernet network.

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