Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST)
Who uses Fully Automated Storage Tiering, and why
FAST optimizes performance, cost and floor space and allows IT organizations to manage more information more efficiently in a smaller footprint—while lowering power and cooling costs, capital costs, and operational costs. FAST is used by anyone with systems that store and process active and inactive data that is difficult to identify and move manually to different tiers.
How Fully Automated Storage Tiering works
FAST—Fully Automated Storage Tiering—continuously monitors and identifies the activity level of data, and automatically moves active data and inactive data to the most appropriate storage tier based on policy—active data to the highest performance tier, inactive data to the lowest cost/highest capacity tier. Policy settings enable administrators to control and manage the automated activity.
Benefits of Fully Automated Storage Tiering
FAST makes a storage system both faster and lower-cost at the same time, because it only uses high-performance tiers when needed, and uses low cost/high capacity tiers when possible. Policies provide control for how performance and cost are optimized, and the automation of FAST means the storage system has no added management burden compared to slower, more costly systems.
