Peer Fusion Clusters Are Cost Efficient.

Peer Fusion clusters offer simpler operations, resiliency and scalability:

• Cost-efficient acquisition.

The Peer Fusion software runs on commodity hardware. We specify the minimal requirements for the hardware and you select the platform that meets your cost, performance and capacity requirements.



• Simple to operate.

A Peer Fusion NAS cluster is simple to install, configure and administer. These advantages lower your costs over the life of the system and by themselves over time can cover the initial cost of the system.



• Efficient fault-tolerance.

Peer Fusion offers unequaled flexibility in configuring cluster resiliency. Our technology provides the highest resiliency levels while maintaining the most efficient use of your cluster:

• you select the resiliency level appropriate for your data.
• there is no peer fail-over so faults do not disrupt cluster operations.
• there are no idle peers waiting for faults to occur.
• you need not provision multiple times your required capacity just for replication.



• Efficient capacity scalability.

Peer Fusion clusters scale capacity by adding disk drives to existing peers and by adding new peers to the cluster. A Peer Fusion cluster can include hundreds of peers so you can keep growing your cluster as long as you have the environmental capacity.



• Efficient performance scalability.

One way Peer Fusion clusters scale performance is to add peers so the workload per peer decreases. It is also possible to add gateways to expedite data movement between the cluster and the client computers.

Another way Peer Fusion clusters scale performance is by upgrading the existing peers:

• adding disk drives to improve disk I/O.
• upgrading the network to 10GbE as well as adding ports to improve bandwidth.
• adding SSD's for cache or storage.