The Integration and Virtualization of Networking Storage

The share of storage resources is the basic duty to the network storage. To effectively supply the share of storage resources for the clients,the technologies of network storage integration and that of network storage virtualization are used. The integration of networking storage laid heavy stress on the storage technologies,integrating methods and storage management,while the storage virtualization laid heavy stress on the improvement of the application environment for the clients. Having the advantages of the integration and the virtualization,the universal virtual storage architecture will be the future of networking storage. The technologies of both the integration and the virtualization are introduced in this paper. To realize the universal virtual storage architecture,we still have a lot of job to do. A network storage system based on ASAS(Autonomic Storage Agency System)is introduced,which combines the technologies of the integration and the virtualization,and it can be seen as a kind of methods to realize the universal virtual storage architecture.