What Does Storage Virtualization Mean?

Storage virtualization is the process of grouping the physical storage from multiple network storage devices so that it looks like a single storage device.

Techopedia Explains Storage Virtualization

The management of storage and data is becoming difficult and time consuming. Storage virtualization helps to address this problem by facilitating easy backup, archiving and recovery tasks by consuming less time. Storage virtualization aggregates the functions and hides the actual complexity of the storage area network (SAN).