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We have an Equallogic running on a PS4100. I'm fairly new to the system so still learning my way round it. This might be a simple query.
My question is this : we have an old storage server with 4tb of data. Let's call it SERVER1. It's due retirement.
I'd like to move that data to the Equallogic, where I have ample space for it.
However, we have many, many clients running many mapped drives to SERVER1. Rather than remapping everyone, which will take an age, is there a facility within SAN HQ or Group Manager to give a virtual hostname (which will be 'SERVER1') and IP to a volume? Pretty sure our old NAS system a few years back was able to do this.
For clients, the transition would be seamless - they'd still connect to the same hostname, only it would now be hosted on the Equallogic rather than being a standalone server. I'd need to update DNS entries and switch off the original SERVER1 completely of course.
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July 4th, 2015 10:00
Hello,
No. The PS series arrays by themselves are just SAN storage device s that use the iSCSI protocol to connect servers to the storage. . They are not NAS file servers on their own. Dell does offer a NAS device that fully integrates into the PS SAN, Known as a FS7600.
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Don
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July 4th, 2015 10:00
Ok, thank you.