存储虚拟化技术应用.ppt

* 2009-6-19 * In a traditional SAN, capacity on physical disks is assigned to individual host systems. Unless you are really good at forecasting, you are going to end up with some disk systems that are really full and others that are not. Because of the physical limitations of dealing with physical storage, it is difficult – and often impossible – to load balance the environment. You end up wasting space. (click) With a virtualized environment, all the available capacity can be pooled behind the SAN Volume Controller. The host systems think they are dealing with a single, very large disk controller. Your administrators can much more easily reassign unused capacity simply by remapping physical capacity to virtual disks that need more space. As a result, the overall utilization of your physical disks can be increased and future purchases deferred. Think about the savings involved. * 2009-6-19 * Let’s take a look at another example. This time we are moving the data that belongs to an application – due to the lease expiration of a disk system for example. In a traditional SAN, you can see that we still have that static connection between the host system and the physical disk. In order to move the data that belongs to the application we have to… (click) Stop the application (click) Move the data (click) Reestablish a new set of static connections between the host and the new disk system (click) And restart the application. Lease expiration meant you had to make a change in the physical infrastructure. The host system had to adapt – and as we discussed – that meant disruption to the business application. (click) With a virtualized environment, however, things are very different. The host system is dealing with a virtual disk – not the physical disk that went off lease. So, all the administrator has to do is to tell the SAN Volume Controller to remap the data on the virtual disk to another physical disk. Watch. (click) The host system and the business application runnin