Abstract: This paper introduces the storage infrastructure management activities and management techniques in virtualized environment, proposes a view that using virtualization technology at all levels of the IT infrastructure makes complex storage infrastructure management tasks become more flexible, relaxed and efficient, compares the different administrative tasks that need to perform under the traditional environment and virtual environments through the actual cases of allocating storage for a new server/host. Finally analyzes the challenges of current storage infrastructure management, and presents an optimized solution.

Key words: virtualized storage management, management activities, virtualization, cloud storage