IBM TotalStorage Virtualization

Helps lower costs of storage management and enhance productivity by providing centralized management, higher storage utilization, and improved application availability.

Helps to reduce the complexity and cost of managing storage networks, allows virtualization of storage, helping to increase the utilization of existing capacity and to centralize the management of multiple controllers.

Designed to reduce management complexity and improve scalability by providing a central point of control for virtualization. The SAN Volume Controller technology is embedded in one blade pair in a Cisco MDS 9000 series switch.