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4 BP1038| Best Practices and Guidelines for Integrating the Dell EqualLogic FS7600 and FS7610 into an Existing SAN
Acknowledgements
This best practice white paper was produced by the following members of the Dell Storage team:
Engineering: Mike Kosacek
Technical Marketing: Raj Hosamani
Editing: Margaret Boeneke
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Executive summary
A Dell™ EqualLogic™ FS Series NAS Appliance can be installed into a new or existing EqualLogic iSCSI SAN
to provide unified block and file I/O capability. Before an FS7600 or FS7610 is deployed into an existing
SAN, it is important to ensure the existing SAN has available resources to support existing servers using
block-based I/O as well as clients accessing the Dell Fluid File System (FluidFS). This paper helps the SAN
administrator or deployment specialist by presenting best practices for deploying the FS Series NAS
Appliance into an existing EqualLogic SAN environment.
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