# Virtual Disk Management - Customer Benefits

- ## Eliminates costly downtime

  - Dynamically reconfigure/upgrade disk storage while systems are online

- ## Add storage independent of systems

- ## Volumes not tied to physical storage devices

  - Storage can be parcelled out and used as required
  - Separates storage from Applications

- ## Cluster aware - pools & virtual disks can failover/back

  - Pool is the unit of Failover

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