CodePudding user response:
With the evolving of storage technology and storage market fast changing, almost all large and medium-sized data center has become a heterogeneous environment, the accumulation in the environment from different brands of storage array, storage arrays with different brand series, and flash memory arrays and mixed array, the incompatible between storage array, can't transfer data, using different management tools, this leads to a storage management is becoming more and more complex, storage efficiency is reduced, the procurement and management costs rise, also cause difficulties to data protection and disaster, this solution is storage virtualization, such as using FreeStor fully open storage virtualization solutions, to integrate the heterogeneous storage environment, the various brands of heterogeneous storage array for unification virtual resource pool, boundary data and vendor lock-in, provides a quick and easy data acquisition, image, migration, snapshot and copy, so as to realize the unified management of the storage resources comprehensive, data protection, as well as the local/remote disaster and double live data center, through virtualization integration of heterogeneous storage resources, improve storage utilization, the efficiency of management, data availability, reliability, and reduce operating costs,