Avere OS is the engine that powers the FXT Series of NAS appliances. Avere OS provides dynamic tiering for optimal data placement across multiple storage tiers, performance acceleration for any application workload, and clustering for performance scaling and availability. Avere OS support for industry standard protocols, an intuitive user interface, and policy-based management enable the FXT Series to seamlessly fit into existing environments.
Dynamic Tiering
Avere OS dynamically tiers data by intelligently and automatically moving it to the optimal storage tier based on business demand. It stores active data on the internal SSD and HDD media and manages the placement of inactive data on the mass storage system. Allocation algorithms constantly monitor data access patterns and actively manage data placement to increase performance, distribute workload in the cluster, and minimize accesses to the mass storage system.
Performance Acceleration
Avere OS accelerates performance for any application workload without adding servers or disks to the mass storage system. It takes ownership of heavily accessed files and accelerates all operations to those files including reads, writes, file attribute updates, and other metadata operations.
Clustering
Linear performance scaling and high availability are provided by the clustering capability of Avere OS. Up to 25 FXT appliances can be clustered, delivering up to millions of operations/sec performance and tens of gigabytes/sec throughput. Avere OS coherently and automatically balances active data across all FXT appliances in the cluster enabling all resources to be used as a shared, scalable pool. N+1 high availability protection ensures that data is available in the event of a power, network, or system failure.
Seamlessly Fit In Existing Environments
Avere OS provides NFSv3 and CIFS file access interfaces to support applications running on Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac servers and clients and NFSv3 to support leading mass storage systems. Simple installation, configuration, and monitoring are provided by an intuitive user interface and industry-standard SNMP support. Integrated policy-based management ensures that FXT appliances operate synchronously with existing data protection procedures (e.g. backup, mirroring) running on the mass storage systems.
Dynamic Tiering
Avere OS dynamically tiers data by intelligently and automatically moving it to the optimal storage tier based on business demand. It stores active data on the internal SSD and HDD media and manages the placement of inactive data on the mass storage system. Allocation algorithms constantly monitor data access patterns and actively manage data placement to increase performance, distribute workload in the cluster, and minimize accesses to the mass storage system.
Performance Acceleration
Avere OS accelerates performance for any application workload without adding servers or disks to the mass storage system. It takes ownership of heavily accessed files and accelerates all operations to those files including reads, writes, file attribute updates, and other metadata operations.
Clustering
Linear performance scaling and high availability are provided by the clustering capability of Avere OS. Up to 25 FXT appliances can be clustered, delivering up to millions of operations/sec performance and tens of gigabytes/sec throughput. Avere OS coherently and automatically balances active data across all FXT appliances in the cluster enabling all resources to be used as a shared, scalable pool. N+1 high availability protection ensures that data is available in the event of a power, network, or system failure.
Seamlessly Fit In Existing Environments
Avere OS provides NFSv3 and CIFS file access interfaces to support applications running on Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac servers and clients and NFSv3 to support leading mass storage systems. Simple installation, configuration, and monitoring are provided by an intuitive user interface and industry-standard SNMP support. Integrated policy-based management ensures that FXT appliances operate synchronously with existing data protection procedures (e.g. backup, mirroring) running on the mass storage systems.