SOLUTION BRIEF

MegaFile: Faster Backups andRestores for Large Files
Reduce Downtime and Meet Critical Business SLAs

Key Benefits• High performance forbackups and restores oflarge, multi-terabyte files• Reduce downtime inrecovering from a disaster orransomware attack• Applicable for a broad rangeof sources including VMware,
Hyper-V, Linux, AIX, andrelational databases

As a high-performance solution, Cohesity provides quick backups and restores even for large,
multi-terabyte files. MegaFile is a unique component of Cohesity’s architecture that allows fast
backup and recovery for large files, helping reduce backup times as well as downtime whenrecovering from a disaster.

Differentiated Parallel Streaming
MegaFile is a differentiated approach to data streaming across multiple nodes, implemented
using patented technology. MegaFile intelligently distributes files across all nodes in a cluster. An
aspect of Cohesity SpanFS®, MegaFile breaks large files into smaller chunks for parallel backup andrecovery across nodes. The minimum size of these chunks is optimized to maximize performance.
Unlike other vendors, Cohesity dynamically splits and distributes data, allowing large files to bedivided into smaller chunks and streamed across the entire cluster.

Cohesity Helios
Data CenterEdge

Public Cloud

Legacy and Other Backup Vendors

1TB

1TB

512GB

VMDK, VHD, physical, or
database file or object

1TB

512GB

512GB

VMDK, VHD, physical, or
database file or object

Dramatically Faster Backup and Recovery
When backing up a 2 TB file to an 8-node cluster, for example, MegaFile creates eight segments
and ingests each of these data chunks in parallel across the Cohesity cluster. For this file,MegaFile decreases backup times by up to 8x. Adding more nodes in a cluster increases theperformance further.
The same benefits of MegaFile are applicable for restores as well. With MegaFile, restores aredramatically faster, even for large, multi-terabyte files. This helps reduce downtime and helps
teams meet SLAs.
Cohesity’s intelligent multi-node streaming is applicable for VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Pure
Storage, the leading databases, and physical servers—supporting VMDK, VHD, physical, anddatabase objects.

SOLUTION BRIEF | MegaFile: Faster Backups and Restores for Large Files

Higher Performance Regardless of Size
Dramatically Faster Backups and Retores• Higher backup and recovery performance that scales with more nodes• Increase the performance of protecting and recovering multi-terabyte VMs, databases,
and physical servers

Supporting a Range of Data Sources• Supports block-based and file-based data
• Supports VMware, Hyper-V, Linux, AIX, Pure Storage and SQL ServerHigher Performance Across Workflows• Supported for both full and incremental backups• Meet business SLAs more easily, with shorter backup windows even for large files

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