What Is Storage Virtualization?
Search Storage, Monday, February 24th, 2025
Storage virtualization is the pooling of physical storage from multiple storage devices into what appears to be a single storage device or pool of available storage capacity. A central console is used to manage the storage.
Storage virtualization or virtualized storage aims to abstract physical storage systems and drives in order to present them as a single pool of storage capacity. The capacity of this single virtual device can be centrally managed, thus simplifying storage allocation, maintenance and overall management.
Storage virtualization disguises the actual complexity of a storage system, such as a storage area network (SAN), which helps a storage administrator perform the tasks of backup, data archiving and recovery more easily and in less time.