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Storage Load Balancing Solutions
Get peak performance by eliminating hotspots and balancing utilization
Storage load balancing consolidates your existing storage resources into a "virtual file server." This approach can reduce the complexity and disruptiveness of managing multiple islands of disparate storage resources, helping you eliminate bottlenecks and increase overall utilization.
F5 intelligent file virtualization solution automate load balancing across multiple file systems and physical storage devices. Flexible load balancing policies allow you to dynamically distribute application load and capacity--transparently to both applications and users.
Why do I need storage load balancing?
Business benefits of using F5 for storage load balancing include:
- Better utilization of existing storage resources.
Storage utilization rates often hover at just 30 to 40%, and sharing excess capacity across systems can significantly boost overall utilization--maximizing your storage investment and postponing or even eliminating the need to purchase additional capacity. - Improved business workflow.
Aggregating storage capacity, throughput, and processing power can help optimize application performance and eliminate disruptions that impact user productivity. - The ability to exceed the limitations of today's NAS devices.
Pooling multiple file systems can create a large application workspace. - No downtime or reconfiguration.
Provisioning new storage into the virtual pool is a simple, non-disruptive task. - Greater efficiency.
Automating load balancing frees up IT resources to focus on other business-critical initiatives.
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How do I implement storage load balancing?
When you use intelligent file virtualization to implement a load balancing plan, you virtualize your file storage environment. This eliminates the rigid mapping between clients and physical file location, and creates a logical representation of file content. In this virtualized environment, data is free to move across existing systems and excess capacity can be shared transparently without affecting clients. Storage provisioning becomes a simple, non-disruptive task.
What F5 offerings do I need for a storage load balancing solution?
F5 ARX® intelligent file virtualization devices make the physical location of files irrelevant in terms of file access, so you can create a single, unified pool of storage within a multi-vendor, heterogeneous infrastructure. These devices provide a rich set of management policies that allow the movement of data in real-time, based on capacity demand. F5 solutions also eliminate "vendor lock-in," so you can choose the storage technology you need based on business and IT requirements.
