Many new features have been added to Hyper-V, including network virtualization, multi-tenancy, storage resource pools, cross-premise connectivity, and cloud backup.
A private cloud is where a company uses virtualisation technologies to create a single, flexible "pool" of computing and storage resource within its own IT infrastructure – and it's a model of deployment that analysts at IT market research firm Gartner recently predicted would grow tenfold in 2012.
Virtualization is also the key ingredient for resource pooling, the ability to link together computing, storage, memory and network resources across the data center into a giant virtual computer, which can be then sliced and diced to dynamically distribute computing capacity to the applications that need it the most.
–Resource Pooling: In cloud computing, individual machines (servers, storage, network) are transformed into "pools" from which IT capacity can be automatically allocated based on demand.
The logic of resource pooling speaks against this.
Resource Pooling: The Cloud provider's resources are pooled into a shared resource which is allocated to consumers on demand.
Storage Resource: Non-volatile secondary storage memory houses the data used by compute resources.
Pooling storage resources allows administrators not to deal with individual storage and specific hardware configurations.
Instead of storage being siloed and separate, Cohesity provides a single management layer, and a single resource pool, across storage assets.
Abstraction heterogeneous storage resources are gathered into logical pools where they are consumed and managed in contrast to traditional storage where the control is decentralized. 5.
This grid-based storage service enables ubiquitous and on-demand access to a shared pool of grid-scale energy storage resources.
