 Data Path Virtual Storage Pools INSILON VMAX Storage VNX Storage Third Party Commodity Storage Downloaded 4/15/2022 9:44:49 AM Nova Southeastern University IP Address: 137.52.76.29 Software-Defined Storage The features of ViPR can be summarized as below: Automated Provisioning: ViPR improves operational efficiency by automated provision and reclamation of storage resources. Storage as a Service Model: It is based on SaaS i.e. storage-as-a-service model and uses self-service catalogue to empower consumers. Converged Infrastructure: It supports converged infrastructure to speed-up deployment of cloud-based services on converged infrastructure Multivendor Support: It supports a variety of multivendor platforms (EMC & 3rd Party). ViPR manages block storage SO it can work with OpenStack Cinder. Using the IaaS model it can integrate with VMware, OpenStack and Microsoft cloud stacks. Open Community Based: It is based on CorpHD SO it will gain all the benefits of open source community-driven development. NexentaStor NexentaStor offers unified block (iSCSI and FC) and file (SMB and NFS) storage service, that operates on standard industry hardware and supports hybrid, all-flash and disk scaling up to petabytes configurations (NexentaStor). It's very easier for IT administers to monitor, mange day to day tasks (creation of file systems, deploying pools etc.). Benefits It adequately reduces the enterprise workloads and Cloud storage cost. Provide swap-in replacement of file storage devices and legacy block. For ease of deploy and support partner certified reference architecture has been used. Functionality It provides Unified NFS and SMB File services and Unified FC and iSCSI block services It provides high performance and scalable architecture. It provides unlimited file system sizes It provides inline data reduction for space optimization. It supports data protection with space optimized snapshots and clones. It supports different replication for easy data back up Downloaded: 4/15/2022 9:44:49 AM Nova Southeastern Univers