What is BoostFS?

Within the Data Domain community, the popularity of DD Boost is at an all-time high with an over 70% attach rate. You might wonder: With all this success why did Dell/EMC create BoostFS? The answer is simple: to make the benefits of DD Boost immediately available to hundreds applications by introducing a single feature.

Introduced in DD OS 6.0, the DD Boost File System Plug-In (BoostFS) resides on the application system, presenting a standard file system mount point to the application. With direct access to a BoostFS mount point, the application can leverage the storage and network efficiencies of the DD Boost protocol for backup and recovery. Only simple qualification is needed for the application to support BoostFS, shortening the time to market. Also, the file system interface makes BoostFS easy to deploy, allowing it to be up and running in minutes. By leveraging the DD Boost technology, BoostFS helps reduce bandwidth usage, can improve backup-times, offers load-balancing, in-flight encryption, and supports the Data Domain multi-tenancy feature set.

As a file server system implementation, the BoostFS workflow is similar to NFS but also leverages the DD Boost protocol. In addition, BoostFS improves the backup times compared to NFS and various copy-based solutions. Redirecting NFS workloads to BoostFS is easy and non-disruptive to the environment in addition to being transparent to users.

BoostFS is now available for customers with active licenses for the DD Boost Software Option or Data Domain Virtual Edition.

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