Adds data access parallelism

• Adds data access parallelism

• Meta-data can be separated from the location of the data

• Data can be striped across a set of data servers

• “There are products in existence that are multi-node NFS servers but they are limited in the participation from the client in separation of meta-data and data. The NFSv4.1 client can be enabled to be a direct participant in the exact location of file data and avoid sole interaction with the single NFS server when moving data.”[8]