STORAGE, EXPLAINED
Business continuity
Design for the failures you need to survive. Combine high-availability storage with a separate recovery strategy.
Business Continuity
Continuous availability of all data keeps business running and allows companies to maintain all operations even if critical situations or disasters appear. This is achieved with High Availability systems, which aim to provide a data storage user with the highest possible performance, reliability, availability, redundancy and efficiency by minimizing downtime periods and eliminating single points of failure. VFusionOS offers dozens of options in regards to architecting High Availability environments with iSCSI, Fibre Channel (FC) and NFS, SMB (CIFS) client protocols. These options allow you to set up High Availability Load-Balanced Storage Clusters that ensure reliability and redundancy through failover in case of a server crash.
VFusionOS High Availability Clusters
High Availability architecture examples
VFusionOS helps users to build their storage environment flexibly and according to individual business needs. Whether a system should be based on two nodes, each with its own hard drives attached directly to the node, or with a connection by means of multiple JBODs over SAS or FC, or even with two servers and a common set of direct-attached hard drives within one server enclosure – VFusionOS offers unlimited options to architect storage environments.
On- & Off-site Data Protection + High Availability Cluster = Maximum Data Security
On- & Off-site Data Protection
- Protects data by constantly backing it up and storing copies both locally and remotely
- Allows restoring data to a previously saved point in time in case of hardware failure or data corruption
High Availability Cluster
- Ensures business continuity by providing uninterrupted access to data even during hardware failures
- Maximizes the utilization of hardware and network resources
Support for various cluster environments
Ranging from small cluster-in-a-box setups to big rack servers with multiple JBODs.
All major file- and block-based protocols
VFusionOS supports iSCSI, Fibre Channel (FC) and NFS, SMB (CIFS) client protocols.
Hyper-converged clusters
Possibility to configure clusters with physical servers as well as with virtual appliances, especially in hyper-converged environments.
Distances between 1 foot to 50 miles
Range of possible distances between the nodes from local sites to stretched metro storage clusters.
Easy cluster management
Easy cluster configuration and management with intuitive GUI. Automation of configuration is possible via REST API.
Flexible Cluster over Ethernet
With dual storage mirrored over Ethernet (only with the Advanced Metro HA Cluster Feature Pack).