Nutanix Files, as a software-defined scale-out file storage solution, is deeply integrated with Prism and Nutanix HCI architecture to provide a single management platform and is not restricted by virtualization platforms.

Tools like Cohesity 'Helios' are starting to allow for even more robust reporting in addition to iOS app that can be used for quick secure remote status checks on the environment. Reports are also available for tracking backup performance. Since implementation we have been using the reporting to track data growth and predict for the future.

Remote users noted a substantial increase in performance over our WAN. We are on the smaller side so I can't speak how well the system works at scale, but our performance has been much better. Now that we are running Cohesity exclusively, we are taking backups every 5 minutes across all of our fileshares and send these replicas to our second Cohesity cluster in our colo data center. A couple of DNS repoints and a handful of scripts had to be updated. It was for us a very straightforward process to pivot to serving our files directly via SmartFiles. We had some legacy NetApp devices we backing up via Cohesity. How these categories and markets are definedĬohesity SmartFiles was a key part of our adaption of the Cohesity platform. Object storage refers to devices and software that house data in structures called “objects,” and serve clients data via RESTful HTTP APIs, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and OpenStack Swift. Data is distributed over multiple nodes in the cluster to deliver data availability and resilience in a self-healing manner, and to provide high throughput and scale capacity linearly.

Distributed file system storage uses a single parallel file system to cluster multiple storage nodes together, presenting a single namespace and a storage pool to provide high-bandwidth data access for multiple hosts in parallel.

A shared-nothing architecture is a distributed computing architecture in which there is no single point of contention across the system. Gartner defines distributed file systems and object storage as software and hardware solutions that are based on “shared nothing architecture” and that support object and/or scale-out file technology to address requirements for unstructured data growth.

Ed store object storage