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Demartek Publishes Storage Networking Virtualization (IOV) Article
February 2010
Dennis Martin, Demartek President, has written an article describing I/O Virtualization. Servers are virtualized, storage is virtualized, but what about your storage network? New products now make it possible to pool and share networking resources.
Storage network virtualization, also known as I/O virtualization (IOV) or I/O consolidation, comprises an emerging family of technologies that extend the concept of virtualization to the major types of input and output (I/O) handled by today's servers.
In recent years, data centers have been deploying server and storage virtualization technologies to more efficiently use underutilized computing assets and to create more flexible infrastructures. In decoupling the logical function from the physical hardware, virtualization allows hardware to be pooled and shared, thus improving utilization. Once in place, virtualization makes new server or storage deployments much quicker and easier, while making it easier to effect changes to the existing infrastructure. For example, it’s much easier to deploy new virtual...
The complete article is available at: SearchStorage.com. Technologies discussed in this article include PCI Express, SR-IOV, MR-IOV, InfiniBand, 10GbE and others. Companies mentioned in this article include Aprius, Mellanox, NextIO, VirtenSys and Xsigo Systems.
Dennis Martin will give a presentation on this topic at the following events: