Users Guide

Contents 3
Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2 DX Object Storage Platform Overview . . . . 9
Network Topologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Local Cluster Configuration
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Subcluster Configuration
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Remote Cluster Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 16
DX Cluster File Server Configuration
. . . . . . . . 18
Application Access to DX Object
Storage Platform
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Communicating Directly With a
Local Cluster
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Communicating Directly With a
Remote Cluster
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Communicating With a Cluster Through
the Cluster File Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3 Setting Up the DX Object
Storage Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Installing the Initial Cluster or Redundant
Cluster Services Node
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Configuring the DX Object Storage Platform
. . . . . . 21
DX Content Router Rules Configurator
. . . . . . . . . 22
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