Avere Tiered NAS Appliances: Record-Setting Performance and a 5:1 Reduction in Disks, Power, and Rack Space.
The performance of current generation network attached storage (NAS) is limited by the quantity and performance of the attached disk drives. For even modest application performance requirements, this limitation results in costly over-provisioning of storage capacity, inefficient use of limited data center space, and wasted power consumption.
The Avere FXT Series of tiered NAS appliances separates data delivery from data retention and more efficiently delivers both. Active client data is stored and accessed on a cluster of FXT appliances optimized for performance. Inactive data is stored on traditional NAS systems (in Avere terms, mass storage systems) optimized for storage capacity. System performance scales by adding appliances to the FXT cluster and capacity scales by adding disk storage to the mass storage systems.
Performance
Avere Tiered NAS appliances enable the best of both worlds, the performance of SSD and the cost of SATA. The Avere FXT Series provides performance acceleration for any application workload mix including reads, writes, and metadata operations. The FXT Series supports up to 25 appliances per cluster and linearly scales to millions of operations/sec performance and tens of gigabytes/sec throughput.
Cost Savings
Avere solutions are highly efficient; the total equipment deployed is typically one-fifth of traditional NAS deployments, resulting in dramatic savings in rack space and power/cooling costs. For existing NAS deployments, the Avere FXT Series enables administrators to dramatically increase the performance of their system without adding storage. For new deployments, the FXT Series enables administrators to meet their performance requirements with the highest possible storage density on the mass storage systems using low-cost, high-capacity SATA drives.
Simplicity
Introduction of an FXT cluster into existing data center applications is fast, simple and requires no changes to the application servers and clients or mass storage system. Visibility into the operations of the Avere cluster, application servers and clients, and mass storage system is provided by a wealth of statistics and graphical display on the Avere user interface.
High Availability
Avere clusters provide N+1 protection to ensure data remains available in the event of a failure. Integrated NVRAM provides high-performance and persistent write operations. FXT appliances are highly reliable and provide redundant network ports and power.