Your initial roll-out of object storage is a huge success and its time to extend your cluster to meet the growing global storage demands. Your customers have differing storage requirements that you need to meet. What items do you need to take into consideration when expanding to a large global reach storage cluster? Once deployed, how can you be assured that it is running properly in a global context?
At Symantec, we are addressing many of these issues to meet our growing storage demands. We would like to share our insight on:
Architectural Considerations
Multiple Regions
Multiple Storage Policies
Network Virtualization
Dynamic Scaling
Single Pane Visibility
Hardware Considerations
Performance Characterization