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virtualised storage and servers

Apologies in advance for the novice question.

Does server virtualisation and storage go hand in hand? Or can you have one without the other? Say if you ran 5 virtual servers from one physical server that DID have internal storage drives - does that assume your virtualisaing storage between the 5 servers?

Or does storing all data from the virtual servers on a SAN equate to "virtual storage"?

Jargon free answers would be most helpful.
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SANs are often referred to as storage virtualisation for the reason above.

unless you map a  server to a one to one relationship with a physical disk. this could be a physical or virtual server.
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That was my suspicion, thanks for confirming.