Shared File System
All machines on the SAN see the shared volumes as local and can read and write to them at the same time. The distributed locking mechanism does not rely on a server.
Reliability
All metadata operations are logged, which greatly reduces the possibilities for data corruption. The file system check is extremely fast, leading to higher availability. There is no server-like machine, eliminating potential single point of failure.
Speed and High Performance
DynamiX CFS transfers the bulk of data flow through the high-speed direct channel to the storage, and command and control are transferred over TCP/IP or other network protocol.
DynamiX CFS system layout is designed to speed up write and read from a file, creating and deleting a file, directory lookup and to support both large and small files efficiently. It allows multiple streams per file and minimum effort is used for allocation/deallocation of large data streams, as well as handling great amounts of small streams.
Scalability
DynamiX CFS is designed as full 64-bit file system providing maximum volume size of 2^64 bytes, or more than 18 million terabytes (1 TB=10^12B).
OS Support
DynamiX CFS is currently Windows only. Support for Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, Unix, and AIX is planned for a future release.
Security
Unix operating systems have different security semantics than Windows NT. DynamiX CFS supports both types of security models.
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Input an estimate of the amount of storage you will need. Your available storage capacity will decrease depending on the RAID level you choose. Do not include hot spares in your raw storage calculation.
Input the amount of data you currently have in use. This will be used to generate an estimate on the number of disks you will need for this amount of available storage, after accounting for the RAID level.
