Dell FluidFS V3 NAS Solutions For PowerVault NX3500, NX3600, And NX3610Administrator's Guide

Domain Name Service (DNS) is a networking service that enables users to locate computers by providing name‐to‐IP address and IP address‐to‐name resolution services. You can configure one or more external DNS servers (external to the FluidFS cluster but within the site) to be used for name resolution. A DNS suffix specifies a DNS domain name without the host part of the name (for example, west.example.com rather than computer1.west.example.com).

If clients access the FluidFS cluster by name, you must add an entry in the DNS server that associates the FluidFS cluster name to the FluidFS cluster client VIPs. If you are using multiple client VIPs, add all client VIPs to the DNS server and associate them with the same FluidFS cluster name (known as round‐robin DNS). This enables client load balancing between client VIPs. In addition, you must configure DNS if you are using Active Directory, and the DNS servers must be the same DNS servers that your Active Directory domain controllers use.