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The split-path architecture: built for enterprise class virtualization.

Article Excerpt
Today, most application downtime results from planned outages associated with common IT maintenance tasks. For storage administrators, many of these tasks are related to moving data to the appropriate resource at the appropriate time. Common activities such as lease rollovers, tech refreshes, and the realignment of resources to meet service level agreements require applications to be taken offline while these tasks are performed. Block storage virtualization is a technology that enables IT administrators to migrate data to the appropriate resource at the right time without impacting application availability. Non-disruptive data migrations can be performed not only within an array but also across arrays from the same or different suppliers. In addition, block storage virtualization provides a central management point for storage administrators to improve utilization rates while lowering administration costs.

First Generation Block Storage Virtualization Architectures

Block storage virtualization utilizes an intelligent hardware platform that is either embedded directly into the storage network or sits between virtualized storage and the SAN. This moves the scope of functions such as data access and volume management to the networking layer, expanding them beyond the boundaries of individual storage and server...

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