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Best Storage For Server Virtualization

According to InformationWeek, storage is one of the key challenges when expanding a virtual server infrastructure. Although selecting the right protocol is important, there are two other issues that should also be considered during the selection process. The first is the scalability and adaptability of the storage system, and the second is how well the system can address challenges related to storage management.

"The storage system can make life easy for you by handling key storage management challenges not just data services. For example how easy is it to add additional storage capacity? This is critical in a virtual environment since the likelihood of needing more capacity is high. Also this is more than just how do you connect that new storage but how hard is it to make that storage available to existing volumes or to map it into the virtual infrastructure? Another example is how does the storage system allow you to manage different classes of storage and map those to the appropriate virtual machines? Is there an automated data movement function or is there a simple way to identify virtual machines that need more or less performance and move those to the corresponding tier?"