topic Re: How to achieve 100TB volumes without GX in Network and Storage Protocols

How to achieve 100TB volumes without GX

allsrupa4 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:29:30 GMT

Hi,

We need volumes which are greater tehn 12TB for our applications. Did anyone achieve this with any third party applications.

Ravi

Re: How to achieve 100TB volumes without GX

scottgelb — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:20:17 GMT

NetApp Virtual File Manager (VFM) or even Widelinks to create a namespace (if CIFS) works... it won't get you one big directory over 12TB usable but most of our customers who think they need a 100TB mount point can easily have 10x 10TB volumes on the backend as long as each show under the same directory structure... use DFS or widelinks to create a root namespace then stitch the volumes wherever you want.. none of the buckets will hold over 10-12TB usable but the top level will be a large mount point. If you need a 100TB directory (ouch) then other customers of ours have Acopia which splits writes by files across multiple volumes without going to GX.

Re: How to achieve 100TB volumes without GX

allsrupa4 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:00:14 GMT

Scott,

Thank you for suggestions. We are looking for using it for NFS environment. How well does acopia work with NFS environment.

Ravi