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<h1 class="topictitle1">Virtual storage</h1>
<div><p>Virtual storage consists of objects that, when used together, imitate
tape, CD, DVD, and write-once read-many (WORM) media on your disk units. The
imitated media appear to the server to be <em>actual</em> media.</p>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><img src="./delta.gif" alt="Start of change" /><strong><a href="rzam4virtualconcepts.htm">Concepts for virtual storage</a></strong><img src="./deltaend.gif" alt="End of change" /><br />
This topic provides general information about virtual storage, including descriptions and instructions for use.</li>
<li class="ulchildlink"><img src="./delta.gif" alt="Start of change" /><strong><a href="rzam4virtualtape.htm">Virtual tape</a></strong><img src="./deltaend.gif" alt="End of change" /><br />
When you use virtual tape devices, you create virtual tape volumes that exist on your server disk units.</li>
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When you use virtual optical storage, you create virtual CD or DVD images that exist on your server disk units.</li>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzam4overview.htm" title="As your company produces a greater volume of information, and as the value of that information grows, the methods you use to protect and preserve it become vital corporate strategies. Storage has gone from being a feature of a server to being an entity unto itself.">Storage solutions</a></div>
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