Peer Fusion VDI Storage Solutions

Peer Fusion clusters offer scalable performance and capacity:

• Multi-dimensional scaling.

A Peer Fusion cluster scales by adding peers as your needs grow. You are not just adding disk drives, you are also adding network bandwidth, computational power, memory and cache to your cluster. As the capacity of a Peer Fusion cluster grows so does its performance because data is striped across every peer so that I/O is parallel at all times. The more peers in your cluster the more parallel the I/O can be which results in sustained higher IOPS as well as raw throughput. The more peers in your cluster the more faults it can withstand so the better protected your data.



• Simplicity retained.

Peer Fusion clusters retain their simple administration as they scale. The peers are designed to work together whether there are ten or hundreds. Once a peer performs network discovery and joins a cluster it becomes part of the quorum and operates like all the other peers. Your administrative tasks that are applied to the cluster will apply to all the peers no matter how many. The Peer Fusion cluster is a single namespace and a single virtualized repository.



• Cost-efficiency scales.

Peer Fusion clusters benefit from a resiliency virtuous cycle as they scale. The count of recoverable peer failures need not grow linearly with the count of peers added. For example, if your target was to continue operating your ten-peer cluster after three peer failures, it may not be necessary to configure your scaled-up twenty-peer cluster to operate after six peer failures. Of course the fault-tolerance requirements depend upon your applications and only you can weight the possibility that seven peers will fail simultaneously. Peer Fusion clusters are the only storage platforms that give your complete flexibility in setting the protection levels for your data so you could raise the maximum peer failures count up to eighteen in this scaled-up twenty peer cluster example.