Home > Data Protection > PowerProtect DD Series Appliances > Dell PowerProtect DD Series Appliances and Commvault Integration Guide > DD BoostFS overview
Introduced in DDOS 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 DD multitenancy feature set. As a file server system implementation, the BoostFS workflow is like 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 nondisruptive 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 DD Virtual Edition (DDVE). For more information, see the DD BoostFS for Windows Configuration Guide and DD BoostFS for Linux Configuration Guide.