StorPool implements a fully distributed shared nothing architecture, where all nodes are equal. By adding nodes, the cluster scales linearly in both capacity and performance.

Storage+Compute: In a single-layer deployment existing StorPool clusters can be expanded by adding additional nodes running StorPool, which adds additional compute and storage resources to the shared pool. In a dual-layer deployment both the storage-only StorPool clusters and the compute clusters can be expanded simultaneously.

Compute-only: Because StorPool leverages virtual block volumes (LUNs), storage can be presented to hypervisor hosts not participating in the StorPool cluster. This is also StorPool and non-StorPool storage platforms.

Storage-only: In a dual-layer or mixed deployment both the storage-only StorPool clusters and the compute clusters can be expanded independent from each other.