Administrator Guide

10 Dell FS8600 with VMware vSphere  Deployment and Configuration Best practices
space boundaries and they all submit to common data protection and accessibility policies, we allocate a single NAS
volume to store them. To differentiate template classes and purposes you can map multiple datastores to the NAS
volume. It is best practice to keep source templates intact and separated from the production clones to be able to change
them whenever required without affecting live VMs. This strategy can be achieved by provisioning a full copy of the
template (replica) to the production datastores and using it as the source image for the production clones. The later are
fast and space efficient virtual machines that share image with their source replica (thin clones).
3.3 Fluid File System Overview
Fluid File System (FluidFS) is an enterprise-class, fully distributed file system that provides customers with the tools
necessary to manage file data in an efficient and simple manner. The underlying software architecture leverages a
symmetric clustering model with distributed metadata, native load balancing, advanced caching capabilities and a rich
set of enterprise-class features. FluidFS removes the scalability limitations such as limited volume size associated with
traditional file systems, and supports high capacity, performance-intensive workloads via scaling up (adding capacity to
the system) and by scaling out (adding nodes, or performance, to the system).