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Storage Overview#

VergeOS provides an integrated storage solution that can be tailored to meet diverse workload requirements and provide simplified administration.

vSAN (VergeFS)#

The VergeFS Virtual Storage Area Network (vSAN) is a fundamental component that tightly integrates storage into the VergeOS Virtual Data Center (VDC). It provides a distributed, multi-tiered storage foundation for all VergeOS workloads.

Key Features#

  • Direct management of storage hardware: Eliminates storage abstraction layers for improved performance
  • Comprehensive monitoring and reporting: Real-time visibility into storage performance, capacity, and health
  • Intelligent load balancing: Automatically distributes I/O across available storage devices
  • Data efficiency: Built-in deduplication reduces storage consumption
  • Data integrity: Continuous bit-rot detection protects against silent data corruption
  • Self-healing: Automatic recovery from hardware failures
  • Horizontal scalability: Add storage capacity and performance by adding nodes
  • Legacy hardware support: Wide device support, including HDD and Fibre Channel to integrate existing SAN infrastructure
  • Effortless virtual disk management: storage abstraction provides simplified and flexible virtual disk provisioning and management

More information about VergeFS architecture can be found at: VergeOS vSAN Block-Level Architecture and Data Distribution

Integrated Data Protection#

  • Snapshots: Point-in-time copies for quick recovery
  • Replication: Copy complete systems along with data to another location for archival and disaster recovery
  • Backup integration: Compatibility with external enterprise backup software

File-level Storage#

  • Media Images - easily upload and manage individual ISO images, VM disk images, logos and other files to use in your system and share among sites and tenants.

  • Network Attached Storage (NAS) - embedded NAS services allow you to create volumes for file-level access on your VergeOS distributed storage, in order to: share across workloads, easily import/export data for backups or migration, mount external file systems, and more.