Manage, monitor, govern, and provision VAST AI OS environments from a single control plane, delivering consistent operations across data centers and cloud deployments.
VAST Polaris
Centralized Management of Distributed VAST Infrastructure
Polaris centralizes fleet management of VAST AI OS clusters, providing global visibility, automated provisioning, and operational consistency across hybrid cloud environments.
Being able to push AI discovery down into the data tier means that we don’t need an additional asset management system.
Grant Nodine
Senior Vice President, Technology, National Hockey League (NHL)
Legacy Challenges
Rethinking Fleet Management for the AI Era
Legacy management tools were not built for distributed AI, leaving teams with fragmented operations, siloed insights, and manual administration.
Operational Silos & Limited Visibility
Teams struggle to have a centralized view of their distributed infrastructure, complicating efforts to monitor health, capacity, performance, and compliance across environments.
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Core Capabilities
Orchestrating Globally Distributed AI Infrastructure Across Private and Public Cloud
VAST Polaris provides a centralized, global control plane that automates deployment and lifecycle management, transforming isolated clusters into a single, operationally coherent AI data platform.
Product Benefits
One Control Plane for Distributed AI Platforms
Centralized Fleet Orchestration
Automate the deployment and lifecycle management of distributed AI clusters across public clouds and on-premises environments. Orchestrate the provisioning, scaling, and upgrades of your entire fleet to ensure consistent operations and hands-free management.
Deployment Automation
Define the desired infrastructure state once; Polaris automatically deploys and maintains it using secure, Kubernetes-based agents across your entire global data fabric—continuously reconciling drift so that every cluster matches your specification without manual steps.
Unified DataSpace Integration
Combine with VAST DataSpace to unify all data locations behind a single global namespace, so that AI applications can access data seamlessly wherever it lives—without copies or migrations and with consistent performance across every site and cloud.
Feature Details
The Central Foundation for Hybrid AI Management
Gain centralized control of distributed AI resources with unified monitoring, policy enforcement, and lifecycle management across hybrid infrastructure.
Centralized Fleet Visibility & Insights
Governance, Policy & Security
Automation & Lifecycle Management
Global Dashboard
View all VAST AI OS cluster deployments from a single interface across data centers and cloud environments.
Fleet Monitoring
Monitor infrastructure status and alerts across distributed deployments with centralized visibility and reporting.
Capacity Analytics
Track storage growth, consumption trends, and resource utilization across the fleet to improve planning and avoid capacity surprises.
Asset Inventory
Maintain a real-time inventory of clusters, nodes, software versions, and infrastructure resources across the entire environment.
Holistic Approach
DataSpace unifies data across clusters through a global namespace, while Polaris governs how those clusters are deployed and lifecycle-managed across hybrid environments.
Natively Integrated
Included at no extra cost, Polaris complements VAST AI OS by coordinating how VAST environments are deployed and operated across infrastructure boundaries.
Resources
Resources to Keep You Moving Forward
Press Release
VAST Data Introduces Polaris to Orchestrate Globally Distributed AI Data Infrastructure
Polaris is the industry’s first global control plane purpose-built for AI data infrastructure spanning hyperscale cloud and datacenter deployments.
9 minutes
Videos
Building a Suite of Cloud Data Services for AI Training and Inference
Discover how VAST Data simplifies AI infrastructure for the age of agents and inference.
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Videos
Hybrid Cloud Architecture with DataSpace
Learn how the VAST DataSpace and Polaris eliminate data silos and simplify hybrid cloud operations.
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FAQ
Get the Facts About VAST Polaris
No. Polaris is designed to provision, operate, and orchestrate VAST environments, not third-party storage or generic non-VAST infrastructure. It employs lightweight agents on each VAST node and enables you to manage geographically dispersed VAST AI OS clusters through a single, secure interface.
Polaris works with the VAST DataSpace. Polaris governs how VAST AI OS clusters are provisioned, secured, upgraded, and interconnected. The VAST DataSpace provides the distributed namespace and global data fabric that unify clusters across environments. It abstracts data location, enabling you to access data seamlessly regardless of physical placement.
No, it works with it. Polaris abstracts infrastructure location, while DataSpace abstracts data location. They create a single logical environment across on-prem and public cloud, so distributed AI infrastructure can be managed as one platform while applications can access data without being tied to where it physically lives.
No. Polaris and the VAST DataSpace are designed so AI agents and applications can operate against a single logical environment regardless of where compute or data resides. Organizations can align compute placement with GPU availability, cost, and compliance requirements without changing application behavior.
Polaris does more than provide visibility. It is an intent-driven global control plane that can provision, upgrade, expand, and maintain VAST environments across hybrid cloud from a single API and interface. Teams define the desired state, and Polaris works to keep distributed AI infrastructure aligned to it across clusters, regions, and providers.
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