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ALSO CALLED: Virtualization, Storage-based Virtualization, Host-based Virtualization, SV, NAS Virtualization, SAN Virtualization, Block Virtualization, Storage Subsystem Virtualization, File Virtualization, Disk Virtualization, Network-based Virtualization, and Storage Device Virtualization DEFINITION: File virtualization is the creation of an abstraction layer between file servers and the clients that access those file servers. Once deployed, the file virtualization layer manages files and file systems across servers, allowing administrators … Definition continues below.

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HP Virtualized Infrastructure Solutions for mySAP™ Business Suite - A Roadmap to Increased Flexibility and Manageability of Your SAP Landscape sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: Posted: 02 Jul 2008 \| Published: 01 Apr 2005 SUMMARY: The HP Virtualized Infrastructure Solutions for mySAP Business Suite provide the infrastructure components, management tools, and best practice methodologies to implement and operate SAP's Adaptive Computing infrastructure. TOPICS: Business Processes \| NetWeaver \| SAP (Product) \| Storage Virtualization

HP Storage Works Virtualization: Business Motivation & Benefits sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: Posted: 01 Jul 2008 \| Published: 01 Feb 2008 SUMMARY: This paper describes the business motivations for storage virtualization and the benefits it can deliver. Basic storage virtualization approaches are described and their benefits and limitations are compared. TOPICS: Data Migration \| Productivity \| SAN \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization

Storage Virtualization: Spain Free! sponsored by MPC Corporation WHITE PAPER: Posted: 30 Jun 2008 \| Published: 09 Jan 2007 SUMMARY: As storage networks continue to evolve, users strive to find ways to reduce complexity and cost, storage virtualization offers users a way to increase reliability, reduce overall costs, and reduce complexity. TOPICS: Storage Virtualization

Virtualized Storage from HP sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: Posted: 30 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Feb 2008 SUMMARY: This paper is designed to help users who would like to understand virtualization better in order to evaluate the operational benefits it could provide. TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization

Network File Management with the Maestro File Manager™: Simplify File Storage Management, Reduce Escalating Storage Costs, and Leverage Existing Investments without Disrupting Users or Business Processes sponsored by Attune Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Posted: 20 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2007 SUMMARY: Network File Management is a new category of file serving products that help enterprises simplify the management of their file storage devices and deliver higher service levels. TOPICS: Business Processes \| NAS \| ROI \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization

Leveraging Virtualization to Consolidate, Optimize and Protect Your IT Infrastructure sponsored by Datalink/NetApp WHITE PAPER: Posted: 20 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Apr 2008 SUMMARY: This paper addresses some of the critical issues of virtualization and some of the ways it can be effectively implemented to help organizations utilize resources more efficiently, reduce costs, and improve the availability of information. TOPICS: Data Replication \| Hardware \| IT Infrastructure \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization

IT Briefing: Configuring SQL Server on Storage Area Networks (SANs) sponsored by Dell, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Posted: 20 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Jun 2008 SUMMARY: Read this IT Briefing as we discuss the pros and cons of SANs and disk fundamentals to the ideal number of LUNs and disk performance counter settings for the buffer manager. TOPICS: MySQL \| SAN \| SQL Server \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software

IT Briefing: Virtualization Replication Options for Protecting Your Virtual Infrastructure sponsored by Dell, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Posted: 20 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Jun 2008 SUMMARY: In this IT Briefing, read about the pros and cons of and best practices for using virtualization-based backup and replication to protect physical servers, as explained by server virtualization expert David Davis. TOPICS: Data Replication \| Hardware \| IT Infrastructure \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization

Virtualization Solutions from Sun Microsystems: I Remember When Being Green Meant Compromise sponsored by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc WHITE PAPER: Posted: 19 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2007 SUMMARY: For every area of your datacenter, Sun Professional Services has created a tailored assessment service. TOPICS: Customer Service \| Data Centers \| Storage Virtualization

Compellent: Intelligently Managing inside the Volume sponsored by Compellent WHITE PAPER: Posted: 19 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2008 SUMMARY: This document, takes a brief look at the problems that traditional storage creates in a virtual server environment, and examines how an ideal set of storage virtualization capabilities could address those problems. TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Security \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Virtualization

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STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION DEFINITION (continued): … to present clients with one logical file mount for all servers. The file servers continue to host file data and metadata.

While this arrangement may seem to add IT overhead unnecessarily, file virtualization provides several key advantages, including a global namespace to index files on network file servers. In addition, this virtual file storage consolidation allows excess storage capacity to be shared between file servers. Data migrations …
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