Storage

VMware vSphere storage virtualization is a combination of vSphere

features and APIs that provide an abstraction layer for physical storage
resources to be addressed, managed and optimized in a virtualization
deployment.
Storage virtualization technology provides a fundamentally better way to
manage storage resources for your virtual infrastructure, giving your
organization the ability to:

- Improve storage resource utilization and flexibility significantly.

- Simplify operating system patching and driver requirements -
regardless of storage topology.
- Increase application uptime and simplify day to day operations.
- Leverage and complement your existing storage infrastructure.
 VMware Virtual Machine File System

VMware vSphere VMFS allows multiple vSphere servers to access shared

virtual machine storage concurrently and enables virtualization-based
distributed architecture services to operate across a cluster of vSphere
servers. It provides the foundation for scaling virtualization beyond the
boundaries of a single system.
vSphere supports all common storage interconnects for block-
based storage, including direct-attached storage, Fibre Channel,
FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) and iSCSI. vSphere also
supports placing datastores on NAS storage, accessed via an IP
network.

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