Disk drives are the foundation of modern data storage, but operating systems cannot use physical storage directly. The platters, heads, tracks and sectors of a physical drive must be translated into a ...

Fabric: The hardware and software that connect a network of storage devices to one another, to servers and eventually to clients. LUN masking: Using the Logical Unit Number (LUN) of a storage device, ...

Most enterprises have already virtualized existing physical servers (or are contemplating virtualization of their physical server environment) using server virtualization hypervisors. Today, the most ...