| Feature |
Benefits |
| Massive scalability |
- Supports billions of files (up to 14.4 petabytes of storage) in a single file system. Supports up to 256 file systems.
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| Flexibility |
- Access your data in a single global namespace allowing all users a single, logical view of files through a single drive letter such as a Z drive.
- Offers internal (SAS, Nearline SAS) and external (Tape) storage pools. Automated file placement and file migration based on policies. It can store and retrieve any file data in/out of any pool transparently and quickly without any administrator involvement.
- Multiple storage tiers provide flexibility and efficiency in managing petabytes of files.
- Industry standard protocols: CIFS, NFS, FTP, HTTP.
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| Operational savings and TCO |
- Your organization can consolidate multiple individual filers and its management, thereby avoiding problems associated with administering an array of disparate NAS storage systems.
- Automated file placement, transparently moving files to another internal or external storage pool, optimizes your storage resources and offers tremendous time and cost savings in administering petabytes of files.
- Automated file migration to external storage devices (i.e. Tape) managed by TSM helps you lower TCO for the long-term.
- It is highly scalable, helps conserve floor space, and can help to reduce your capital expenditure and enhance your operational efficiency. Its advanced architecture virtualizes and consolidates your file space into a single, enterprise-wide file system, which can translate into reduced total cost of ownership.
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| Performance |
- Robust SONAS Policy Engine can scan billions of files in minutes, and take action (migrate, backup, delete, replicate etc.).
- Offers scale-out performance, with each interface node providing 900 MB/sec sustained throughput (sequential read) and scales up to 30 interface nodes.
- Scales in performance by adding more interface nodes (front end) and storage pods (back end)
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| Data protection |
- Asynchronous replication for site-to-site protection provides disaster recovery and business continuity.
- Snapshots, up to 256 per file system.
- RAID 5, 6
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| Cloud storage |
- In a cloud environment, applications and services are not tethered to specific hardware components. Instead, processing is handled across a distributed, globally accessible network of resources, which are dispensed on demand.
- Self-managing, autonomic system that enables capacity, provisioning and other IT service management decisions to be made dynamically, without human intervention or increased administrative costs.
- Seamless elasticity to scale computing resources up or down, as required, to fulfil changing organizational needs without service interruption.
- Highly resilient and secure applications and an underlying infrastructure capable of meeting expected levels of availability, reliability and integrity.
- A highly standardized environment that facilitates simultaneous service deployment and upgrades for all users, no matter where they reside.
- Lowers the cost of service access via economies of scale.
- Preserves capital.
- Clouds can provide rapid access to computing capacity at a lower cost of ownership enabling companies to perform operations that may have previously been unaffordable or impractical.
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| Interface |
- Command line interface (CLI) and browser-based graphical user interface (GUI).
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| Advanced features |
- Integrated Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) backup/archive client.
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| Disk drive support |
- 15K RPM 450 GB or 600 GB SAS drives and 7.2K RPM 1 TB or 2 TB Nearline SAS drives.
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| Storage efficiency |
- Reduce infrastructure and administrative complexity and cost, and increase resource efficiency, through consolidation
- Achieve time and cost efficiencies with tiered storage and policy driven automated file management
- Scale out in performance and capacity
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