True Unification
- No separate hardware for File and Block
- Built in 10GbT IP Ports (2 per SP)
- Flexible multi-tenant virtual file serving technology
- Provides SMB and/or NFS
- No separate CIFS server
Unified storage pool architecture
- Create a Storage Pool, then a NAS server, then the file system
- Private LUN will be created in the pool
- Then slices will be created
- Pools can be snapped with Both Block and File on them
High Availability
- Start with LACP
- Create NAS Server. They can support 10 different IPs and different gateways
- A SP will own the NAS Server, balance NAS across the SPs
- NAS will failover in the event of an SP failover. Automatic failback one SP is fixed
Scalability
- 64TB File System
- SMB, NFS, FTP/SFTP
- 128 NAS servers
- 1500 file systems
- 4500 shares
- 3PB Total NAS Capacity
Space Reclaim
- Shrink, extend and space reclaim
- Maual shrink/extend
- Ability to change the capacity of file systems
- Auto-shrink/extend for thin file systems
- Tries to maintain 70%-75% capacity
Unity Data Services
- Shrink and Reclaim
- Quotas
- User quota per file system
- Tree quotas on new or existing directories
- Per file system quota policy
- NDMP for backups
- Snapshots and replication
- Fully unified, uses the same ROW
- Schedulable
- Fast Cache and Fast VP
- Encryption
- DARE
Application Integration
- VMware NFS Datastores
- Automatically mounted to vSphere after creation
- Configure host I/O size to match intended application
