StorageEdge Features
Multiple Storage Providers for SAN, NAS and Cloud (NEW)
StorageEdge provides multiple storage providers for externalizing the BLOB contents. File system provider is the default provider for SAN and NAS storage.
Add Ons (on demand):
- Amazon
- Azure
- EMC Centera
Organized Externalized BLOBs in Folder Structure (NEW)
StorageEdge provides the following types of structures for saving BLOBs:
- Flat Hierarchy
- Auto Create Folders with limited number of files per folder
- Use SharePoint Folder Names
- Use SharePoint File Names (by adding the actual file name with its GUID)
Advance BLOB Filters (NEW)
StorageEdge now provides advance filters for BLOBS transfer which help in sorting BLOBS based upon:
- File Size
- File Name or Extension
- File Author
Tiered Storage (NEW)
StorageEdge can externalize BLOBs in multiple tiers:
- Blob Transfer: Blobs will be transferred to next tier on the bases of 'Version' or 'Age'.
- Archiving: Define policies for a tier like 'Versioning' or 'Ageing'.
- File Author
EBS Scope (NEW)
StorageEdge gives you the facility to configure EBS for a 'Site Collection' as well as for a 'Web Application'.
RBS Jobs Independence (NEW)
Instead of relying on 'SharePoint API' now we have our own jobs for RBS:
- RBS Migrate Job
- RBS Revert Job
Bandwidth Throttling for all types of Jobs (NEW)
StorageEdge now offers you to configure Job Throttling for various jobs like:
- Migration jobs throttling
- Revert jobs throttling
- Garbage Clean job throttling (only for EBS, because we are not providing the 'Clean' job for RBS)
- Blob Transfer job throttling
- EBS to RBS conversion throttling
Jobs Monitoring (NEW)
This feature provides you the facility to monitor the SharePoint Timer Jobs that are scheduled for any process.
Low Disk Notification (NEW)
With this feature of StorageEdge3.0, you can receive notifications for low disk otherwise the BLOBs will not be externalized when available space becomes zero.
EBS to RBS Conversion (NEW)
StorageEdge provides you the facility to convert External BLOB Storage to Remote BLOB Storage without copying BLOBs which results in efficient memory consumption.
Doc Importer Tool (Imports BLOBs from storage without copying them) (NEW)
Doc Importer allows you to migrate data and documents from multiple locations to SharePoint libraries 2007/2010. .
Upgrade SharePoint 2007 to 2010 without 'Reverting' the BLOBs back to SharePoint DB (NEW)
StorageEdge provides you the facility to upgrade Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, using various approaches. Up gradation is made easy and it's a time saver too.
SharePoint 2010 support
StorageEdge 2.0 can now be installed on SharePoint 2010. JS/CSS minification feature is incompatible with SP 2010 hence it is not available in SP 2010 edition.
Added support for new WebParts of 2010
New XsltListViewWebPart is supported for List Caching feature.
Remote BLOB Storage (RBS)
StorageEdge 2.0 for SP 2010 now has full support for RBS and you can use existing storage providers with both EBS and RBS.
Image Combining (Dynamic CSS Sprites)
SharePoint 2007 includes the image combining feature that helps improve your application performance. StorageEdge 2.0 is able to dynamically generate CSS sprites to further reduce HTTP round trips between the client and web browser, giving you even better performance.
EBS Size filter
With StorageEdge 2.0, you are now able to set a minimum BLOB size for externalization.
File Shredding
File System adapter now supports file shredding.
Schedule job on Specific Server
EBS jobs can be scheduled on specific servers in the SharePoint farm.
StorageEdge Monitoring Tool
StorageEdge Monitoring Tool allows you to monitor the performance counters published by NCache and StorageEdge for the entire farm. It also allows you to view SharePoint logs of all the WFEs of the farm on a single farm node.
It greatly simplifies monitoring of your Cache, BLOBs, List and Jobs activity.
Additional Tools
- BLOBInfo:
This tool allows you to find actual document name with a BLOB GUID you will provide. - BLOBStressTool:
With this tool you can test BLOB caching under heavy load. - NCache Monitoring Tool:
It is a powerful graphical tool designed to simplify monitoring StorageEdge performance. It allows you monitor BLOB, List and ViewState Caching in real time and see how StorageEdge is improving SharePoint performance.
External Binary Store
EBS allows you to store all your content (documents/images/e.t.c) in an external storage. StorageEdge allows you to save your files on
- File System, SAN Storage, NAS Storage
- Amazon Cloud Storage Service
- Azure Cloud Blob Storage Service
Our EBS has following features
- Save each site collection data in separate folder or storage (FS, Azure, Amazon)
- Gzip Compression
- Encryption (TrippleDES 128bit, TrippleDES 192bit, AES 128bit, AES 256bit, DES 64bit, RC2 128bit)
- Migrate / Revert content from/to EBS without any downtime and get Email notification on Failure or Success
- Integrated UI in Central Administration for easy management
- Performance Counters for monitoring
Content Optimization
Content Optimization feature allows us to reduce the payload that gets transferred over the wire in form of ASP.NET ViewState, Javascript and CSS.
Following are the features of Content Optimization.
- Cache ASP.NET ViewState on the server preventing it to travel back and forth between client and server allowing optimal use of bandwidth and faster download of the page.
- Combine and minify multiple Javascript and CSS files into a single css file and cache it for reducing the number of requests the browser makes on per page visit.
This reduces page rendering time and reduced server traffic.
Minification removes redundant white space from JavaScript and CSS and obfuscated JS code to reduce the file size and allow faster download of the files - Integrated UI in Central Administration for easy management.
- Performance Counters for monitoring
Session Caching
Cache ASP.NET session and reduce the load on SQL Server (Which is used by default for sessions in SharePoint).
- Integrated UI in Central Administration for easy management.
List Caching
This feature allows you to save the output of different lists displayed in Calander View, Gantt View, Data Sheet View or HtmlView and prevent database query that retrieves the data of list from Sql Server.
- We can select different type of expiration for different lists.
- Integrated UI in Central Administration for easy management.
- Performance Counters for monitoring.