Dell FluidFS Version 6.0 FS8600 Appliance Deployment Guide

FS8600 scale-out NAS consists of one to four FS8600 appliances configured as a FluidFS cluster. Each NAS appliance is a rack-mounted 2U chassis that contains two hot-swappable NAS controllers in an active-active configuration. In a NAS appliance, the second NAS controller with which one NAS controller is paired is called the peer controller. FS8600 scale-out NAS supports expansion, that is, you can start with one NAS appliance and add NAS appliances to the FluidFS cluster as needed to increase performance.

NAS appliance numbers start at 1 and NAS controller numbers start at 0. Appliance 1 contains Controller 0 and Controller 1, Appliance 2 contains Controller 2 and Controller 3, and so on. To identify the physical hardware displayed in Dell Storage Manager, you must match the service tag shown in Dell Storage Manager with the service tag printed on a sticker on the front-right side of the NAS appliance.

The following FS8600 appliance configurations are available. All NAS appliances in a FluidFS cluster must use the same configuration. Mixing 1GbE and 10GbE, or Fibre Channel and iSCSI, is not supported.

• 1Gb Ethernet client connectivity with 8-Gb Fibre Channel back‑end connectivity to the Storage Center
• 10Gb Ethernet client connectivity with 8-Gb Fibre Channel back‑end connectivity to the Storage Center
• 10Gb Ethernet client connectivity with 10-Gb Ethernet iSCSI back‑end connectivity to the Storage Center