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What is Storage Virtualization?
Virtualization allows users to virtualize or simulate real-world hardware. While there are many different types of virtualization, this article is about storage virtualization technology. By virtualizing your storage, you can manage it from a console and take advantage of pooling resources together to create a scalable storage solution. This is an improvement over the traditional way of having to walk over and manage physical devices. Not only that, but you can pool small to medium size hard drives together and get one massive drive that you can split up between various machines.