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This white paper describes the powerful combination of StoreAge SVM storage virtualization product with VMware's server virtualization product. The rapid proliferation of server virtualization technologies and especially VMware, is due to the value of easily consolidating many servers and applications into a small amount of physical hardware. In this manner, it is possible to take tens - or even hundreds - of small physical servers and consolidate them into a few, easy to manage servers while maintaining the logical separation between each application.

This solution both dramatically reduces the necessary support and maintenance; it also creates new opportunities to leverage the power of the server and storage infrastructure. The combination of a storage virtualization technology, on the back-end of the server virtualization technology is one of those cases where the value of the full solution is much greater than the sum of the value of the individual components.