The HP StorageWorks Enterprise Files Services (EFS) Clustered Gateway is a file server that delivers scalable file serving performance with assured availability for mid-range and enterprise customers on an industry standard platform. The EFS Clustered Gateway uses a shared data architecture. This enables EFS Clustered Gateway servers to be configured into a cluster of up to 16 servers. This clustering capability allows you to scale your file serving performance in a near linear fashion to over 3 GB/s. EFS Clustered Gateway provides continuously available storage that can also be scaled as application needs dictate without loss of performance. The shared data architecture of the EFS Clustered Gateway maximizes file server consolidation opportunities. EFS Clustered Gateway supports industry standard servers and software. Servers supported include the HP ProLiant and HP ProLiant BladeSystems. Supported software includes Windows and Linux operating systems.
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Scalable File Serving Performance from 1 to 16 servers: Purchase the right amount of file serving throughput and performance you need today with the ability to easily add performance and throughput in the future without a "forklift" upgrade.
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Continuously available storage can scale as application needs dictate without loss of performance: Quickly adapt your storage capacity to changing business requirements without fear of disruption to current operations.
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Shared data architecture maximizes file server consolidation opportunities: Consolidate file servers to provide IT departments a way to both drastically reduce the cost of operations and provide more efficient management of the incredible storage growth everyone is facing.
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Supports industry standard servers and software: HP ProLiant DL server is the world’s best selling server with enterprise class uptime and management features. Both Linux and Windows are supported.
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Creates an integrated block- and file-level storage solution out of any SAN: Increases the ROI on your exiting SAN investment.
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Single, shared pool of storage: Simplifies storage allocation, yields high utilization and lowers TCO.
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Storage Virtualization across heterogeneous arrays for easy online capacity growth: Provides configurable striping to meet workload and performance demands. Online volume growth and aggregation across multiple arrays allows full use of storage infrastructure.
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High Availability for Mission Critical Applications: Cache coherency and data integrity is maintained in the event of a single or multiple file server failure. Clients are failed over transparently and uniformly distributed across the cluster to ensure optimal load balancing and uninterrupted file serving for critical applications.
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No single point of failure, because every node in the cluster sees the same view of the data: With a shared data architecture, every file server in the cluster has the same data view. This ensures that cluster integrity. Failover from file server to another happens quickly and the client is unaware a failure has occurred as file serving has failed-over to all remaining filers. There is no single point of failure.
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Operationally efficient manageability, with support for all major management software: Manage a single cluster rather than individual servers. The cluster can be monitored from any node or from any system running Windows or Linux. In addition to cluster management, storage management and fabric management can also be done from the cluster console.
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