Overview
CloudFS 8 is the 8th generation of Panzura's award-winning hybrid cloud global file system.
Featuring immediate file consistency everywhere, real-time file locking for data integrity, complete ransomware resilience, and snapshots for granular data recovery, CloudFS 8 scales without impacting performance and is FIPS 140-2 certified.
Multiple cloud interoperability, performant edge capabilities and integration with Panzura's Data Services platform provide a complete modern data management solution.
CloudFS 8.4 introduces Granular Role-Based Access Control allowing more precise user permissions within the CloudFS WebUI. It integrates with AD to ensure tailored access for various roles and enables compliance with internal and external controls. This release also offers support for AWS Glacier Instant Retrieval, enabling significant cost savings of up to 68% on object storage, without impacting CloudFS performance, optimizing storage spend. Additionally, CloudFS now supports Linux KVM on RHEL 9.4 and later, providing an additional virtualization option for cost-effective, flexible deployments.
Highlights
- SIMPLIFY YOUR DATA MANAGEMENT. Get one authoritative set of data, for everybody, everywhere. Whether you have 5 locations or 500, all the right people can access all the right files, from anywhere, in real time.
- GET UNSTRUCTURED DATA UNDER CONTROL AND IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY. Say goodbye to data silos. Consolidate your unstructured data from multiple locations into the cloud with Panzura, and save up to 70% on storage space. 5x your productivity with seamless file collaboration across all sites. No editing collisions, no overwrites, no waiting, and no unnecessary file copies taking up space and causing confusion.
- GET IMMUTABLE RANSOMWARE PROTECTION. Become ransomware-proof with smart data that can never be changed. When attackers attack, immutable data and read-only snapshots means you have a pristine data set to revert back to in minutes, without losing recent file changes.
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Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Once the instance is running, access the instance using a browser using https. The WebUI will first request the user to decrypt a dynamic password generated by uploading the private key file. The private key file is used only for decryption verification purposes. Then the user is instructed to configure a password for the read-write user and the read-only user. The user is then instructed to step through a bunch of configuration screens, where the user can configure the host name, pick a feature bundle, and add disks to the system. Once configuration is complete, the user is given an option to join the AMI to a active directory domain, after which the AMI is ready to use. A user can access the default share on the AMI using a SMB / CIFS connection on a Windows instance. The username for logging in is admin and the password will be the decrypted key password with the extension .pem generated by amazon.
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From initial deployment to proactive network management and technical support, Panzura's global services and support team is available 24/7/365.
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Panzura CloudFS
-High system requirements for the on-premise filers caused us to have to do a lot of hypervisor system upgrades.
-Price is pretty high to license the storage and sites. particularly when you consider we pay for our S3 storage separately.
-No solution for remote mobile workers to cache files locally.
-When adding site licenses, they insist on charging a "$700 install fee" to install additional filers in new sites which only takes 30 minutes and our team has already done many of the installations without them and is fully capable of doing the installs.
-HA works but is kind of rough, you have to rebuild the edge filer after an HA event (no failback), and that process takes a long time to make sure files are consistent. Makes you think hard before triggering HA. Two different types of HA, different rules for each. Not straighforward. Even testing HA is a big deal.
-Some file types/applications don't work well with the solution (like GIS data or any really chatty files). To be fair, this is a problem with many solutions.
-We have experienced bugs in two of their General Release OS updates that broke functionality. It seems to be a roll of the dice when doing an upgrade.
-Solution is very latency sensitive, make sure your latency is below 30ms.
-They have at least two dashboards you can use to view metadata storage, they both report different capacities, one shows 75TB, the other shows 100TB.
-New filers can take a long time to build thier metadata cache, we are seeing 2 days on a 1 gb fiber internet connection, as your data grows, this only increases.
-locating where files are locked is difficult in large multi-site environments, we are developing an application internally to deal with this.
We feel the data is better protected from ransomeware and we are able to keep many more snapshots at more frequent time intervals. Restores are less complicated from any site. The ability to search across all files. Data on who is accessing which files.