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File System

The BlueArc File System Technology

BlueArc’s SiliconFS File System is central to the Titan and Mercury families’ unique functionality and serves as the common point of integration for all elements of a storage solution – storage servers, information services and the storage ecosystem. SiliconFS is the engine that manages all data movement, delivering predictable sustained performance across the storage pool. It not only optimizes core File Services and Intelligent Tiered Storage, but it maps storage assets to applications, virtual clients or the data life cycle.

The SiliconFS File System features:

• Hardware-accelerated architecture leverages parallel processing to remove traditional performance bottlenecks
  
• Enables a comprehensive set of virtualization tools to simplify administration of file system functions
  
• Spans single nodes, server clusters, virtual servers and extends to external storage devices
  
• Common namespace and mixed-mode security for simultaneous access to native CIFS and NFS based files from shared directories
• iSCSI for block-based access concurrently supported
  The combination of BlueArc’s patented hardware-accelerated architecture and SiliconFS file system provides tremendous benefits to BlueArc customers, including:
  

High Performance

• Hardware based architecture removes traditional performance limitations
  
• Increases throughput by aggregating the performance of multiple drives
  
• Dynamic storage balancing ensures that as new capacity is added data is re-striped to immediately benefit from the additional drives
  

Massive Scalability

• Maximum file system and volume size of 256TB reduces the need to manage multiple file systems
  
• Global Namespace capacity of 2PB and 4 million objects per directory provides room for consolidation and future growth
  

Simplified Management

• Single point of administration for multiple file systems within a single node or across multiple nodes in a cluster
  
• Alter and migrate file systems, virtual servers and virtual volumes without user disruption
  
• Maps storage assets to work flow, virtual clients or data life cycle
  

Lower Cost of Ownership

• Dynamically allocates storage to file systems and free space, optimizing disk utilization
  
• Allows oversubscription (thin provisioning) at volume or file system level, increasing disk utilization
  
• Eliminates the need for physical separation of assets, resulting in fewer servers