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Productivity

Store, access, and manage files

  • Data portability — multi-protocol in/out through NFSv4, S3, HDFS, or HTTP; read data written through FileFly

  • Streams data directly to and from Swarm (no local gateway storage staging or spooling)

  • Brings rich custom object metadata to file though NFS

  • Mount domains, buckets, or views that are filtered by custom object metadata

Less Risk

Security and scale with no single point of failure

  • Limitless scale

    • Rapid scale thought physical servers, VMs or appliance

    • No storage or protocol silos

    • No read performance performance latency through data staging

  • Multi SwarmFS instance managed through a single pane of glass

  • Security settings in Swarm propagate through all protocols

  • Builtin active/active HA that requires no local disk and no clustering

  • Auto client resume — if there is a communication issue between client and SwarmFS, the client restarts up where it left off

Lower TCO

Leverage Swarm scale-out storage

  • High availability and data protection are standard automated features

  • Continuous protection with seamless movement between replication and erasure coding

  • Eliminates the need for backups

  • Leverage Swarm’s automated, policy-based data management

  • Automatically replicate content to a remote site for distribution

  • Manage files from creation to expiration

  • WORM, Legal Hold, and Integrity seals are standard

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SwarmFS is a lightweight nfs-ganesha plugin, which is simple to both install and manage. A traditional gateway or connector has many more moving parts, each adding restrictions, overhead, and complexity:

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High Availability

SwarmFS is stateless, so as many SwarmFS instances as needed can be spun up and all NFS instances are active, with no failover or clustering required. With SwarmFS, HA is simple and High Availability is part of the standard product : and no special configuration/, clustering or management is required.

Traditional gateways and connectors must stage objects as files locally on the gateway. Disk space on gateway server is a limitation. SwarmFS does not cache or stage files/objects on local disk space; rather, it streams data directly to and from Swarm. You escape the performance overhead of writing complete objects to a local gateway staging disk, and you have no risk of losing data if the Gateway crashes before data is spooled off the gateway to the object store.

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POSIX — SwarmFS adds basic POSIX security to the modern object security inherent in Swarm. This is important as it means that you achieve uniform Uniform object security is achieved through and across NFS, SCSP, and S3, with additional POSIX file security when objects are accessed though SwarmFS. 

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