These systems support:
- Stand-alone servers, or clusters of up to eight nodes
- Tiered storage
- A single name space with global access
- Virtualized storage pools, servers, file systems, and volumes
- Read caching
- Global symlinks
- Data protection through NVRAM mirroring, snapshots, NDMP-based backup, virus scanner integration, automatic data migration, policy-based data replication, data relocation (with transfer of primary access), and quorum devices
- User, group, and virtual volume (directory) quotas
- Complete tools for managing the system and monitoring system status, including NAS Manager (a browser-based Graphical User Interface), a client for gathering real-time statistics, and a Command Line Interface.