1. A system comprising: a switch storage system intermediary coupled between a host computer system and physical storage mediums such that the host computer system is configured to recognize the physical storage mediums as one or more virtual storage mediums, each virtual storage medium including a set of the physical storage mediums and each virtual storage medium configured to implement commands of storage hardware; and the physical storage mediums configured to recognize the switch storage system as a host controller irrelevant of a topology of the physical storage mediums; wherein the switch storage system is configured to: receive virtual commands from the host computer system and to map the virtual commands to physical commands, and communicate the physical commands to the physical storage mediums; receive replies from the physical storage mediums in response to execution of the physical commands and communicate the replies as a single virtual reply to the computer system; separate the acknowledgement cycle between the host computer system and the switch storage system and the acknowledgement cycle between the switch storage system and the connected devices, and hide retrying of physical commands that fail from the host computer system by responding to the request indicating success after the physical command fails, and then, after responding to the request indicating success, retrying the physical command.