System and method for providing a plurality of virtual computing environments that efficiently use data in the virtual environments

摘要

This invention is a system and method related to providing a plurality of different virtual computing environments in a data storage environment. A system and method that includes configuring the server as a virtual machine server including a plurality of virtual machines and a virtual kernel. A plurality of logical units are assigned to virtual machines. The logical volumes are available to the virtual machine server through a mirroring operation. The logical volumes are associated with metadata to create a plurality of different virtual computing environments.