NAS Virtualization Simplifies File Storage Management

摘要

Today's IT organizations face a number of challenges in their file storage environments driven by the ongoing growth in storage capacity, increasingly complex storage management environments and more demanding compliance regulations. Network attached storage (NAS) or file virtualization switches address these challenges by allowing IT managers to pool storage resources and utilize intelligent storage management services, to optimize resource allocation and data management. NAS virtualization switches break the physical static mapping between clients and their storage recourses, decoupling the logical location from the physical location of the data. NAS virtualization products have several key applications and benefits to file storage environments: 1. simplifying storage management with online storage administration, 2. transparent data migration and consolidation, 3. increasing capacity utilization with flexible resource allocation, 4. enabling tiered storage with adaptive information lifecycle management policies, 5. scaling performance and throughput of existing file servers, and 6. enhancing data protection and disaster recovery.