Administrator Guide

FluidFS Administration
This chapter describes how to use Storage Manager to manage FluidFS clusters for le storage.
How FS8600 Scale-Out NAS Works
Dell FS8600 scale-out NAS leverages the Dell Fluid File System (FluidFS) and Storage Centers to present le 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 44. NAS Storage
To the client, the FluidFS cluster presents itself as a single le 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 les through the NFS protocol
• Windows users access les through the SMB protocol
• Users can also access les through the FTP and FTPS protocols
The FluidFS cluster serves data to all clients concurrently.
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