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Dell DX Object Storage – File Gateway Deployment Guide

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that have suitable competence may prefer configuration and management of link aggregation control

protocol in place of adaptive load balancing.

The preferred failover network configuration is identical to a single-server CFS configuration (above),

except that iSCSI traffic shares the four NIC ports on the private DX Storage network. If a site wishes to

use pre-existing iSCSI storage available on its own VLAN, the recommended network port allocation is:

 Connect NIC ports 0 and 1 to the CIFS/NFS network.

 Connect NIC ports 2 and 3 to the DX Storage Cluster network.

 Connect NIC ports 4 and 5 to the iSCSI Storage network.

Failover

CFS Configuration

(where separate iSCSI network is required)

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Dual Port

NIC

DX Cluster

Network

CIFS/ NFS

Network

Quad Port,

TOE/iSOE NIC

iSCSI Storage

Network

Gateway Protocols

The DX6000G CFS can be configured for NFS or SMB/CIFS gateways. For SMB/CIFS, users and groups can

access the system through standalone authentication, or if Active Directory Services exists, users and

groups can be authenticated through the existing ADS structure. For NFS, Dell supports version 3 only;

it does not support version 4.

Other hardware

The following briefly describes the hardware components required to work as part of DX Object Storage

Gateway solutions. They may already be present in the customer environment, or ordered as part of

the solution.

Network Switch(es) – Configuring the solution requires extensive knowledge of how the

customer uses switches to segment VLANs. Some customers may run each VLAN through a

separate switch, and some may segment a switch for multiple VLANs.

Application Server(s) – These servers write data to the spool cache storage in the Gateway

solution. In a non-gateway DX Object Storage solution, they write directly to the storage nodes.

Domain Controller – This server manages logins, authentication, groups and permissions.

Domain controller information is an essential part of setting up a gateway solution.

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