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Product Manual NAS Function and Management
nAS feAtuRe oVeRVIew
Release 2 of the Vess R2000 Series incorporates principles of unied storage into its core operation in order to
simplify and streamline administration of storage resources. The Vess R2000 supports le-based NAS and block-
based SAN to allow users and applications to access data consolidated on a single device.
This new feature is intended to improve overall performance and allow centralized management of NAS and
SAN resources, however more careful planning of storage environment will be necessary in order to fully utilize
the advantages this system provides. Consideration should be given in particular to how reliability or performance
might be improved or reduced for mission-critical and other applications before allocating NAS or SAN resources.
The main characteristics and advantages of the NAS/SAN unied approach are:
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File-based(NAS)andblock-based(SAN)accessareconsolidatedinasinglestoragesystemthat
supportsbrechannelSAN,iSCSISAN,andNASusing standard le protocols such as CIFS and NFS.
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Storageofledataandblock-basedI/O(input/output)ofenterpriseapplicationsfunctionsimultaneously.
• OverallhardwarecostsarereducedsinceboththeSANandNASoperateinasinglesystem.
• Flexibilityforvirtualserverenvironments
• Simpliedmanagement