Technology Preview: Distributed SmartIO in Veritas InfoScale storage environments

(Linux only)

Distributed SmartIO is a new feature available as a technology preview in Veritas InfoScale for configuration and testing in non-production environments. It is primarily targeted for Oracle RAC or ODM.

With the advancements in the hardware technology - network interconnect such as infiniband, accessing and sharing the data using the network rather than the disk as a medium for data sharing is proving to be faster and cost efficient in storage environments. Data can be cached on faster but costlier SSD storage on few nodes in a cluster. High speed network interconnect can be used to fetch the data as required on any node in the cluster.

Considering these benefits, Veritas InfoScale has come up with a robust solution, Distributed SmartIO, which lets you share SSD resources between all the nodes in the cluster for caching frequently read data.

Supported operating systems

You can configure Distributed SmartIO on supported versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) in this release.

For more information, see Veritas InfoScale™ 7.2 SmartIO for solid-state drives Solutions Guide - Linux.