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Dell Storage Manager 2020 R1 Administrator's Guide

How FS8600 Scale-Out NAS Works

Dell FS8600 scale-out NAS leverages the Dell Fluid File System (FluidFS) and Storage Centers to present file storage to Microsoft Windows, UNIX, and Linux clients. The FluidFS cluster supports the Windows, UNIX, and Linux operating systems installed on a dedicated server or installed on virtual systems deploying Hyper-V or VMware virtualization.

The Storage Centers present a certain amount of capacity (NAS pool) to the FluidFS cluster. This NAS pool is then divided into NAS volumes, which in turn are used to create SMB shares and NFS exports.

Figure 1. NAS Storage
The diagram illustrates that the Storage Center(s) present capacity to the FluidFS cluster NAS pool, which is divided into NAS volumes, which in turn are used to create SMB shares and NFS exports.

To the client, the FluidFS cluster presents itself as a single file server, hosting multiple SMB shares and NFS exports, with a single IP address and namespace. Clients connect to the FluidFS cluster using their respective operating system's NAS protocols:

  • UNIX and Linux users access files through the NFS protocol
  • Windows users access files through the SMB protocol
  • Users can also access files through the FTP and FTPS protocols

The FluidFS cluster serves data to all clients concurrently.


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