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