Red Hat Storage
Scale-out NAS in Virtualized Environments
Red Hat® Virtual Storage Appliance is a software-only solution for scale-out networked-attached storage (NAS) delivered as a virtual appliance. It lets you deploy virtual storage servers the same way you deploy virtual machines (VMs) or public cloud infrastructures.
Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance integrates hardened and tested GlusterFS distributions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux® in an easy-to-consume package for rapid, seamless deployment in public clouds.
Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance Features and Benefits
- High availability and local recovery with synchronous n-way file replication
- Resilience across datacenters and regions with asynchronous geo-replication
- Petabyte capacity with linear performance scalability
- Better performance at a lower cost than monolithic storage systems
- Simplified management of a global storage pool
- Ability to deploy on leading public cloud infrastructures
- Seamless hybrid cloud creation, linking your datacenter to your public cloud storage
Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services Public Cloud
Highly Available, High-performance File Storage in AWS
Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance running in the AWS infrastructure lets you aggregate both Elastic Block Storage (EBS) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances within the AWS environments, creating a highly available virtualized storage pool that can scale on demand to Gbps of throughput and petabytes of capacity.
Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance on AWS Features and Benefits
- The only high-availability storage solution for AWS
- Linear scalability for performance and capacity
- Predictable performance in mixed-workload environments
- Unified global namespace within the cloud
- Multitenancy and shared storage pool
- POSIX compliance—no application modifications required
- Ability to connect multiple AWS instances to a single shared storage pool
Data Availability
The Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance on AWS features both synchronous and asynchronous n-way file replication to assure data availability across AWS Availability Zones:
- Synchronous replication provides redundancy and protection within a single datacenter or multiple datacenters and availability zones in a region.
- Asynchronous geo-replication assures data availability across AWS Regions.
These features let users replicate data between multiple datacenters located in different geographic regions.
Deploy in Minutes
The Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance on AWS can be deployed in minutes, providing one of the fastest ways to create an on-demand, high-performance, petabyte-scale storage environment.
Better Amazon EC2 Experience
Each Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance pools multiple EBS storage elements together, eliminating capacity limitations of a single device and smoothing performance variations across the pool. With Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance, Amazon EC2 customers experience superior availability, performance, and utility prices.
No Application Rewrites
Because Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance is POSIX-compliant, there's no need to rewrite applications when moving data to the cloud as with cloud-based object storage.
