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NAS Virtualization

Overview NAS virtualization is a software-based solution that, in its broadest definition, lets one manage a heterogeneous environment including stand alone and clustered servers, workstations and PCs as one storage pool that can be managed, monitored and administered from any console. When one device reaches its limit, the NAS storage virtualization software automatically starts allocating storage from that device to another NAS device or file server in the same pool. Better yet, the more sophisticated systems stripe files across RAID systems connected to different servers and re-stripe them transparently when new RAID systems are added.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Peripheral Products	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2006	Downloads	3
Format	White Papers
Topics	NAS, Virtualization

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