No matter the type or size of your organization, you are more than likely facing a growing deluge of data that must be stored, protected and archived. The explosive growth in storage requirements, especially for unstructured/file data, is driving the requirement for storage systems that are flexible, highly scalable and easy to manage. The PowerVault NX3500 is the first unified storage product for PowerVault MD storage arrays. It works with new and existing PowerVault MD32x0i and MD36x0i storage arrays to provide integrated storage for iSCSI, CIFS and NFS data. This product is ideal for smaller PowerVault MD deployments where combined storage of iSCSI, CIFS and NFS-based data and scalability are primary considerations. The PowerVault NX3500 with Dell Fluid File System is designed to help optimize file access performance and hardware utilization while helping eliminate capacity and file share size constraints.
Dell Fluid File System (FluidFS) – a key component in Dell’s Fluid Data strategy – is a high-performance clustered file system that represents an exceptional level of innovation in distributed systems technology. FluidFS eliminates many of the weaknesses of traditional file systems. It eliminates the scalability limitations associated with traditional file systems, supports both scale-out performance and scale-up capacity expansion, and provides a single global namespace for easy administration. FluidFS presents a storage pool as a single file system with a single virtual-IP address to the storage client(s).