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diff --git a/doc/release-notes/en-US/Key_Features.xml b/doc/release-notes/en-US/Key_Features.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..4e11bec8429 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/en-US/Key_Features.xml @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> +<!-- This document was created with Syntext Serna Free. --><!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [ +<!ENTITY % BOOK_ENTITIES SYSTEM "Release_Notes.ent"> +%BOOK_ENTITIES; +]> +<chapter id="chap-Release_Notes-Key_Features"> + <title>Key Features</title> + <para>This section describes the key features available in Red Hat Storage. The following is a list of feature highlights of this new version of the Red Hat Storage software: </para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para><emphasis role="bold">High Availability</emphasis></para> + <para>The Red Hat Storage provides both synchronous and asynchronous n-way file replication to assure data availability:</para> + <para><itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para><emphasis role="bold">Synchronous replication</emphasis> provides redundancy and protection within a single data center or multiple data centers and availability zones in a region.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para><emphasis role="bold">Asynchronous geo-replication</emphasis>- Red Hat Storage supports Geo-Rep long distance replication. Customers can configure storage server nodes and Red Hat Storage to asynchronously replicate data +over vast geographical distances. +.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist></para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para><emphasis role="bold">Deploy in Minutes</emphasis></para> + <para>The Red Hat Storage S can be deployed in minutes, providing one of the fastest ways to create an on-demand, high-performance, petabyte-scale storage environment. </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para><emphasis role="bold">No Application Rewrites</emphasis></para> + <para>Red Hat Storage Appliance provides full support for the semantics of a normal Linux file system like ext4 so there is no need to rewrite applications when moving data to the cloud as with cloud-based object storage. </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para><emphasis role="bold">Flexibility</emphasis> +</para> + <para>Runs in userspace, eliminating the need for complex +kernel patches or dependencies. +</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para><emphasis role="bold">Scalability</emphasis> +</para> + <para>Elastic volume management enables storage volumes +to be abstracted from the hardware so data and hardware can be managed independently. Storage can be +added while data continues to be available, with no +application interruption. Volumes can grow across +machines in the system and can be migrated within the +system to rebalance capacity. Storage server nodes +can be added on the fly. +</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para><emphasis role="bold">Simple Management</emphasis> +</para> + <para>Simple, single command for storage management. It also includes performance monitoring and analysis tools like Top and Profile. Top provides visibility into the workload pattern and Profile provides performance +statistics over a user-defined +time period for metrics including latency and amount of +data read or written. +</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para><emphasis role="bold">No Metadata Server </emphasis></para> + <para>Rather than using a centralized or +distributed metadata server, Red Hat Storage software + uses an elastic hashing algorithm to locate +data in the storage pool removing this common source +of I/O bottlenecks and vulnerability to failure. Data +access is fully parallelized and performance scales +linearly. +</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> +</chapter> |