{{ book.productTitle }} a software-only, scale-out storage solution that provides flexible and agile unstructured data storage for the enterprise.
{{ book.productTitle }} provides new opportunities to unify data storage and infrastructure, increase performance, and improve availability and manageability in order to meet a broader set of an organization’s storage challenges and needs.
The product can be installed and managed on-premise, or in a public cloud.
GlusterFS aggregates various storage servers over network interconnects into one large parallel network file system. Based on a stackable user space design, it delivers exceptional performance for diverse workloads and is a key building block of {{ book.productTitle }}.
The POSIX compatible GlusterFS servers, which use XFS file system format to store data on disks, can be accessed using industry-standard access protocols including Network File System (NFS) and Server Message Block (SMB) (also known as CIFS).
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{{ book.productTitle }} for On-Premise allows physical storage to be utilized as a virtualized, scalable, and centrally managed pool of storage.
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