Dell FluidFS Customer Notification:FS7500 Series (EqualLogic) Reference Articles
Summary: FluidFS is an enterprise-class, fully distributed file system that provides the tools necessary to manage file data in an efficient and simple manner. The underlying software architecture leverages a symmetric clustering model with distributed metadata, native load balancing, advanced caching capabilities, and a rich set of features. ...
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Support Library - FS7500 Series (EqualLogic)
Product Overview:
The Dell™ EqualLogic FS7500 adds Network-Attached Storage (NAS) capability to the EqualLogic product line to provide a high-performance, scale-out, unified storage solution. The Dell™ EqualLogic FS7500 extends the EqualLogic architecture to provide an integrated unified storage architecture compatible with all existing EqualLogic Internet SCSI Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) arrays. All block and file data are stored on the backend EqualLogic Peer Storage Series (PS Series) group. File services are provided by the Dell™
Dell’s NAS appliance provides a number of features including a highly available dual controller architecture in a single, 3U NAS appliance. This platform simplifies installation with less required cabling, enhances performance with a PCIe backplane for inter-controller communications, and improves dependability with cache mirroring and fully redundant hot-swappable primary components.
General overview:
- Dell EqualLogic FS7500 Controller - Hardware Maintenance
- Dell EqualLogic FS7500 – Unified block and file storage for virtual workloads (White Paper discussion of VMWare hosting with the FS7500, English only)
- Dell Storage Manager Administrator's Guide - FluidFS System Administration
- Dell Fluid File System - Compatibility Matrix (English Only)
- Note - This covers FluidFS Models and Platforms, software updates, customer management protocols, User Groups and quotas and many other items.
- FluidFS Customer Notification: How the reclaimer service frees space on a NAS pool