- Greatly simplify your data infrastructure
- Install and patch applications once, for the entire cluster
- Reduce the need for redundant copies of data
- Simplify back-up and disaster recovery tasks
- Maximize use of storage resources and minimize your storage costs
- Manage your storage capacity as a whole vs. by partition
- Decrease your overall storage needs by reducing data duplication
- Scale clusters seamlessly, adding storage or servers on the fly
- Add servers simply by mounting them to a common file system
Red Hat's Scalable File System add-on provides support for file systems, that are between 16 terabytes and 100 terabytes in size. You can manage these large data stores using advanced features, such as 64-bit journaling and advanced locking algorithms. The Scalable File System add-on uses the XFS file system, which in addition to supporting very large files and file systems on a single host, also performs well on smaller systems running multi-threaded parallel I/O workloads.