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Figure 37 Containment Model: PS Series Storage and FS Series NAS Reserve

The addition of the FS Series NAS appliance to a PS Series group does not change the functional

behavior of PS Series groups and pools. PS Series groups and pools are explained in more detail in

sections 5.1 and 5.1.1.

12.3 NAS Container

To provision NAS storage, you need to create NAS containers within the NAS cluster. Inside a NAS

Container you can create multiple CIFS shares and/or NFS exports. Access to all shares and exports is

through a single client virtual IP address.

You can create a single large container, or you can create many separate containers. You can apply

different backup, snapshot, security, and quota policies to each container. Creating multiple

containers gives you the flexibility to apply different management policies to different containers. The

number and size of the containers in a NAS cluster depends on the storage needs of your NAS clients

and applications. You can increase and decrease the size of containers as needed. The relationship

between the NAS Cluster, NAS Reserve, NAS Containers, CIFS shares and NFS exports is shown in

Figure 38 below. Note that you can setup “mixed protocol” access to portions of a container. This

means that the same portion of the container can be simultaneously mounted by NFS clients and

mapped by CIFs clients.

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