Novell Dynamic File Services is an information life-cycle management technology from Novell that uses a policy-based approach for relocating data between two paths. Dynamic File Services provides two pair types to address your storage needs: standard pair and retention pair. The standard pair allows you to efficiently manage your storage across a pair of paths while giving users access to files on both. When users connect to a network share on the primary path, they see merged view of files. The retention pair allows you to keep active data on the primary path, and to move static data that might occasionally need to be accessed to a retention repository on the secondary path. Remote shares can reside on network attached storage (such as NetApp and EMC filers), supported Windows server platforms, and supported cloud storage provider sites.
You decide how the files are distributed between a pair's paths by specifying policies that can move files based on their last accessed or modified date, file extension, file size, file type, and file owner. Policy enforcement is automated with scheduled and on-demand runs of the policies. Novell Dynamic File Services helps optimize the use of storage resources by directing less valuable files to cheaper storage devices, which lowers the costs of hardware, power, and cooling, and streamlines backup processes, without impacting the end user.
Novell Dynamic File Services 2.2 is also available in the Novell File Management Suite, which includes Novell File Reporter and Novell Storage Manager. For information, see the the Novell File Management Suite Documentation website.