From 281c79c3766ca6a912e419d0cde24d1b8c457cbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amar Tumballi Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 10:30:34 +0530 Subject: doc: added release-notes directory Change-Id: Idd45c0fe6a0615a3204aad216002894746cea03c Signed-off-by: Amar Tumballi Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.com/3501 Tested-by: Gluster Build System Reviewed-by: Vijay Bellur --- doc/release-notes/en-US/Key_Features.xml | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 72 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/release-notes/en-US/Key_Features.xml (limited to 'doc/release-notes/en-US/Key_Features.xml') 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 @@ + + +%BOOK_ENTITIES; +]> + + Key Features + 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: + + + High Availability + The Red Hat Storage provides both synchronous and asynchronous n-way file replication to assure data availability: + + + Synchronous replication provides redundancy and protection within a single data center or multiple data centers and availability zones in a region. + + + Asynchronous geo-replication- 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. +. + + + + + Deploy in Minutes + 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. + + + No Application Rewrites + 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. + + + Flexibility + + Runs in userspace, eliminating the need for complex +kernel patches or dependencies. + + + + Scalability + + 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. + + + + Simple Management + + 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. + + + + No Metadata Server + 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. + + + + -- cgit