Reference Guide

1 Introduction

This document is a collection of the fundamental best practices for setting up and maintaining a Scality

RING solution based on Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell Storage enclosures with links to Scality and

Avago Technologies web sites for obtaining more information.

The Dell Storage Designed for Scality RING solution enables deployment of an ultra-dense storage

platform paired with Scality software, for object-based storage or file-based storage on the petabyte scale.

Supported services include object level protocols: Scality REST; RS2/Amazon; Openstack Swift; and Cloud

Data Management Interface (CDMI). Supported file level services include NFS; Server Message Block (SMB)

Openstack; Openstack Cinder; and local Linux FS via FUSE. For more information see,

Dell.com/sdscalityseriesmanuals.

1.1 Documentation resources

For a complete list of supported Dell and Scality documentation, see the

Support Matrix

for this release.

Scality provides you with login credentials to access the Scality documentation on purchase of Scality

RING software.

NOTE: If you are not provided with login credentials, contact your Scality Account Representative.

These credentials are required to access Scality RING documentation, which is delivered in a version

specific WIKI format.

For information about top-level documentation, go to http://docs.scality.com.

You can view the documents on the Scality documentation page based on the selected software version.

The latest version is selected by default. For the most up to date supported version of software, see the

Support Matrix

To view an earlier software version, select the version number from the drop-down list, and then click Go.

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