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Explore the benefits of clustered NFS services, including technical differences, cost-effectiveness, user experience enhancements, backup variations, disaster recovery solutions, and network configuration options.
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New File Services www.it.ufl.edu
Background • Clustered NFS • NSG8 www.it.ufl.edu
Why change? • Separate disk • Large FS backups • VMWare likes NFS www.it.ufl.edu
Technical differences Monolithic vs. clustered I/O bottlenecked vs. distributed Neat cross-node FS structure VDM abstraction www.it.ufl.edu
Prices CHEAPER. www.it.ufl.edu
User Experience Differences Access to snapshots Quota includes snapshots ACL range management www.it.ufl.edu
Backup Differences Replicate-and-snap Archives may still use TSM Other solutions: BYOS www.it.ufl.edu
DR differences Re-point CNAME www.it.ufl.edu
Network configuration CNAME DNS balanced name IP pool www.it.ufl.edu