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Why you use Vservers
Vservers provide data access to clients without regard to physical storage or heterogeneous structure, similar to any storage system. Vservers provide benefits such as nondisruptive operation, scalability, and security.
Vservers have the following benefits:
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Nondisruptive operation
Vservers can operate continuously and nondisruptively for as long as they are needed. Vservers help clusters to operate continuously during software and hardware upgrades, addition and removal of nodes, and all administrative operations.
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Scalability
Vservers support on-demand data throughput and the storage requirements.
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Security
Although Vservers appear as single independent servers, multiple Vservers can coexist while ensuring no data flows among them.
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Unified Storage
Vservers can serve data concurrently through multiple data access protocols. Vservers provide file-level data access by using NAS protocols, such as CIFS and NFS, and block-level data access by using SAN protocols, such as iSCSI and Fibre Channel (FC) protocol (FCoE included). A Vserver can serve data to SAN and NAS clients independently at the same time.
Note: Vserver with Infinite Volume can serve data only through NFSv3 protocol.
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Easy Management of large datasets
With Vserver with Infinite Volume, management of large and unstructured data is easier as the Vserver administrator has to manage one data container instead of many.
Parent Topic: What a Vserver is

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