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Storage virtualization

Author: Desire Athow| Date: 01 May 2008| Tags:  Virtualisation
Storage virtualization
The term is today used to describe this abstraction at any layer in the storage software and hardware stack.

Address space remapping

Virtualization of storage helps achieve location independence by abstracting the physical location of the data.

The Virtualization system presents to the user a logical space for data storage and itself handles the process of mapping it to the actual physical location.

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