Acopia ARX Performance Balancing Solutions

Managing the traffic across a network and its storage devices can be a massive and complicated task. As storage needs continue to grow, it is important that the performance is kept optimal and bottlenecks removed to minimise the effect on critical business applications.

The Challenges

Performance Issues - Performance issues associated with the entire workload of a critical business application accessing a single filer (e.g. "hot filer" problems)
Bottlenecks - Application performance is limited by NAS performance 'bottleneck' problems
Difficult traffic management - No easy way to load balance application traffic across multiple NAS devices
Inefficient use of file storage - Enterprises have low NAS utilisation rates (30%-50% average) and considerable stranded or unusable capacity across file systems

The Acopia Solution

Acopia ARX can dramatically increase customer business processes throughput by distributing application workload across multiple file storage devices. By load balancing the application I/O across multiple NAS heads, the ARX can eliminate the performance bottleneck and significantly improve application performance.

ARX supports performance load balancing on several intelligent algorithms (e.g. round robin, weighted round robin, capacity biased, least latency etc) allowing customers to optimise application performance based on the specifics of their file storage environment.

In addition, Acopia ARX is able to dynamically balance capacity utilisation across multiple volumes in a workspace, allowing storage administrators to leverage capacity across an aggregate of physical volumes, and avoid having to balance capacity through manual migration.

The Benefits

Increased Application throughput - Dramatically increase application throughput of critical business processes, which in many cases translates into real business value like increased revenues, better customer service or faster time to market
Less operational overhead - Eliminate time-consuming storage provisioning, resulting in a significant reduction in operational overhead
Improve Utilisation rates - Improve utilisation rates across all file storage resources, reducing the capital expense associated with new storage capacity purchases

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