Storage virtualization creates efficient and reliable cloud storage

As a basic technology to realize cloud storage platform, storage virtualization occupies an indispensable technical position. At present, with the emergence of large data centers around the world, the application of storage virtualization technology is favored by the vast number of storage users.

What benefits can storage virtualization bring to the building of a cloud storage platform? Let's take a look at the veil of storage virtualization to see how it can build efficient and reliable cloud storage platforms.

Significantly improve the efficiency of hardware resources

Storage virtualization Technology fully realizes the heterogeneous integration of storage resources. Every year, the replacement of equipment will cause a lot of waste of hardware equipment, and the high cost of new equipment procurement will undoubtedly become a problem for users.

Storage virtualization integrates heterogeneous platform, makes full use of original equipment, solves the problem of increasing data capacity and the cost limitation in hardware upgrade, which is becoming one of the core factors that storage virtualization technology is widely favored.

In addition, storage virtualization can realize the allocation of storage resources on demand, reasonable use of data storage space, greatly improve the use of various hardware system resources efficiency. At the same time, storage virtualization can provide data tiered storage, different read and write speed of storage media into different levels, for example, hot data stored in fast access to the physical devices, so that the full guarantee of the maximum efficiency of the hardware equipment.

Dramatically simplify the complexity of system management

Different vendors, different architectures of storage equipment to the equipment management personnel to bring a lot of inconvenience, today, with storage virtualization technology, cloud storage platforms make the entire system platform management more centralized, simpler, and reduce the workload of managers, while the automation of servers, storage, and networks also reduces a large number of potential human errors, Ensure the reliability of the system. Centralization and standardization of equipment not only reduces unnecessary trouble for customers, but also brings more value to customers ' actual running environment, which can be centralized in configuration management, data security management, business continuity management, capacity management, operation management, performance management, etc.

Significantly enhance the reliability of cloud storage platforms

Storage virtualization not only provides centralized management of hardware resources, but also provides a variety of data protection functions to achieve uninterrupted operation of the business. In practical applications, storage devices must be off-line when replacing storage infrastructures, or they can cause business interruption. Storage virtualization technology allows the failure device to be replaced online, ensuring data uninterrupted reading. In addition, the traditional data centralized management is easy to overload the device I/O, and there is the danger of single point of failure, but under the cloud storage platform, I/O load balance can be realized by storage virtualization, the storage efficiency is improved, and the limitation of equipment performance is reduced.