Dynamic Load Balancing

Balance utilization and eliminate hotspots for peak performance

Are hotspots and bottlenecks causing your applications to grind to a halt? Looking for ways to get more performance out of your existing file servers and NAS devices? Frustrated by capacity limitations of today's NAS devices?

F5 Acopia dynamic load balancing solutions provide powerful real-time load balancing capabilities that can enable IT managers to eliminate "hot spots" and to automatically balance capacity utilization across multiple file systems.  With Acopia, storage administrators have the flexibility to configure load balancing policies that dynamically distribute application load and / or dynamically balance capacity across multiple physical file storage devices in real-time, transparently to applications and users.

"Immediately after deploying the Acopia switches, we experienced remarkable improvements in operational efficiencies. Acopia in-band virtualization switches provided real-time balancing of load across our NAS infrastructure, greatly increasing storage scalability, while effectively utilizing all of our available file storage capacity."

- Cliff Dutton, CTO, Ibis Consulting

Acopia dynamic load balancing solutions provide many unique benefits:  

• Load balancing is performed transparently to clients and applications
• Load balancing can take place between file storage devices that are already in place irrespective of whether the devices are homogeneous (same platform, same vendor) or heterogeneous (different platform or different vendor)
• Capacity can be non-disruptively added to the storage pool as needed, without incurring application downtime or client reconfiguration
• Load balancing can be based on a number of flexible criteria such as capacity, latency (performance), weighted round robin, etc
• Load balancing can dramatically improve application performance and improve business work flow
• Capacity load balancing can increase aggregate file server utilization and eliminate stranded storage capacity
• Load balancing can be used to aggregate multiple file systems to create a large application workspace, that exceeds the limitations of today's NAS devices

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