Dell Storage Manager 2020 R1 Administrator's Guide

Managing NAS Volumes

A NAS volume is a subset of the NAS pool in which you create SMB shares and/or NFS exports to make storage space available to clients. NAS volumes have specific management policies controlling their space allocation, data protection, security style, and so on.

You can either create one large NAS volume consuming the entire NAS pool or divide the NAS pool into multiple NAS volumes. In either case you can create, resize, or delete these NAS volumes.

NAS volume availability depends on the availability of the Storage Centers. If a Storage Center is offline, storage center LUNs will not be available for the FluidFS cluster, and access to the shares and/or exports will be lost. Correct the Storage Center problem to resume service.

The following NAS features can be configured on each NAS volume:

• File security styles
• Quota rules
• Data reduction
• Snapshots
• NDMP backup
• Replication