Dell PowerVault NX3500 Technical Manual

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1 Contents 1. Product Overview .......................................................................................... 2 2. PowerVault NX3500 Clustered Solution ........................................................ 3 3. PowerVault NX3500 Solution Architecture ............................................... ...

2 1. Product Overview The PowerVault NX3500 adds scale-up NAS capability to PowerVault MD32x0iand MD36x0i storage to create a scale-up Unified Storage solution. It is an easy-to-use solution for smaller-scale deployments with increasing iSCSI, NFS and CIFS-based data storage needs. With the PowerVault MD backend ...

3 Dell Scalable File System is essentially a distributed file system, with volume management, cluster management for transparent failover, and non-disruptive scalability. Its interconnect technology delivers virtually unlimited scalability for both performance and capacity, independent of each ...

4 3. PowerVault NX3500 Solution Architecture The PowerVault NX3500 system is based on a NAS gateway architecture with the hardware residing on three physically separate components: • PowerVault NX3500 controller0 • PowerVault NX3500 controller1 • Backup power supply o A unified storage s ...

5 NAS System Diagram NAS Shares NAS file shares are the final export of the NAS storage to the user. One NAS volume can have multiple file shares and shares can be either CIFS, NFS or mixed-protocol (CIFS and NFS). File share access can be fully managed to enable default or controlled access b ...

6 6. Controllers In the clustered solution, each PowerVault NX3500 controller has two connections to the client network: two connections to the storage area network and two controller back-to-back connections for the cluster's internal network. Each controller is protected by a backup power su ...

7 to the PowerVault MD3xx0i storage appliance. It is recommended that administrators determine their network configuration and IP allocation for their NAS controllers before executing NASCU. PowerVault NX3500 NAS Manager lets you configure NAS network IP addresses and create and manage volumes ...

8 DSFS Snapshots 10. NAS Replication Block-based NAS replication is a feature that uses snapshot technology in the PowerVault NX3500 file system. Replication is volume-level and can be used to replicate volumes on the same or another PowerVault NX3500 system. After the initial replication, cha ...