Virtual Storage Appliance

The only high-availability storage solution for AWS

Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance running in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure is the only high-availability storage solution for AWS. It lets you aggregate both Elastic Block Storage (EBS) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances within the AWS environments, creating a highly available virtualized storage pool that can scale on demand to Gbps of throughput and petabytes of capacity.

Superior Amazon EC2 experience

Each Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance pools multiple EBS storage elements together, eliminating capacity limitations of a single device and smoothing performance variations across the pool. With Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance, Amazon EC2 customers experience superior availability, performance, and utility prices.

No application rewrites

Because Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance on AWS is POSIX-compliant, there#39;s no need to rewrite applications when moving data to the cloud as with cloud-based object storage.

Modular, stackable design

Configure and tune Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance on AWS to deliver high performance for a wide range of workloads. And combine modules as needed depending on storage requirements and workload profile.

More performance for your money

Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance on AWS uses arrays of EBS devices for consistent, high-performance access. And it delivers better performance than monolithic storage systems at a fraction of the cost. It’s ideal for AWS usage-based pricing, and you can leverage the EC2 hardware environment for a great return on your investment.

Linear performance scalability

Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance delivers petabyte capacity—up to 100TB per appliance—with linear performance scalability.

Independent data and hardware management

Elastic volume management enables storage volumes to be abstracted from the hardware so you can manage data and hardware independently:

• Add storage while data continues to be available, with no application interruption.
• Rebalance capacity by growing volumes across machines in the system and migrating them within the system.
• Add storage server nodes on the fly.

Unified global namespace

Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance uses a unified global namespace that aggregates disk and memory resources into a single pool, virtualizing the underlying hardware. You can grow and shrink the single namespace dynamically, with no interruption to client access.

Data availability

Synchronous n-way file replication ensures high data availability and local recovery. Asynchronous geo-replication ensures resilience across datacenters and regions.

Lightning-fast deployment

With Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance, in minutes you can build and deploy an on-demand storage environment that’s:

• High-performance
• Low-cost
• Secure
• Petabyte-scale
• Multitenant
• Easily managed
• Thin-provisioned

And with just a few mouse clicks you can deploy additional instances in seconds.

Deploy in public and private clouds

Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance integrates the GlusterFS distributed file system in a VM image for rapid, seamless deployment in a variety of virtualized environments, including public and private clouds. You can also provision and deploy your storage environment on popular hypervisors.

Storage management simplified

Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance simplifies storage management in virtualized architectures, with thousands of VMs sharing 1 global namespace. Plus it includes easy-to-use performance-monitoring and analysis tools.

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Get technical information about Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance:

• Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services

Read more to find out if Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance is right for your organization:

• Cloud Storage Report: Adoption, Practice, and Deployment
• Introduction to Red Hat Storage architecture
• Scale-out Storage Market Trends
• Scale-out Storage Market Forecast 2010-2015