Abstract
The second part of this tutorial builds on the first one, so the audience should have visited part I or already should have a basic understanding of this subject. Storage Virtualization part II covers practical issues of block virtualization in order to make most effective use of it. Among other topics it describes the implementation step by step and aspects of availability, performance and capacity improvements. The material discusses the role of storage virtualization within policy-based management and describes its integration in the SNIA Storage Management Initiative Specification(SMI-S) and the SNIA Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI).
Learning Objectives
Understand the role of virtualization in improving storage availibility, performance and capacity management
Learn about potential policy-based management using virtual techniques
Understand how storage virtualization fits into the SNIA SMI-S and RESTful Web Services (CDMI) architectures