You know your data will grow; you just can’t predict how it will grow. Some users constantly hit their storage limits, while others barely use theirs. You spend more time than you can afford reprovisioning new shares and migrating data to rebalance capacity. It’s time to change your storage management strategy.
With F5, you can dynamically balance capacity utilization across available storage resources, reduce the cost of storing data, and ensure optimal performance of your storage environment.
Distribute data growth
Sudden spikes in data growth can exhaust some storage resources even while other resources remain underutilized. F5 uses automated data management policies in combination with dynamic capacity balancing to:
- Evenly distribute data across your storage environment.
- Smooth out sudden spikes in utilization that exceed the capacity of localized storage resources.
- Improve the performance of your entire file storage environment.
Improve storage utilization
Don’t default to adding more storage when you may not be using what you have. F5 file virtualization and capacity balancing policies together enable you to use the storage capacity you already have, where and when it’s needed. With an F5 storage solution, you can:
- Dynamically balance file placement across all available storage resources, improving aggregate levels of utilization.
- Easily provision new capacity into existing file systems on demand, reducing the need to over-provision.
Reduce operational overhead
Effective storage utilization is critical, but it doesn’t have to be hard. By dynamically balancing capacity utilization across all of your storage resources, you can eliminate the need for frequent reprovisioning and manual data migrations, while reducing the business cost to users and the operational cost to your staff.
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File virtualization maximizes utilization of existing storage assets.
Use more of your existing capacity
Balance capacity utilization dynamically to increase storage efficiency.
Improved Storage Utilization
A Global 500 transportation services company increased its storage utilization from 50% to 85%, resulting in a 70% improvement in its storage utilization with their F5 ARX.
Source: TechValidate
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