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Product Manual NAS Function and Management
Important
For dual controller systems, the NAS portal always runs through the
Master controller regardless of whether the subsystem is Active-Active or
Active-Passive. So the portal setting is made on one controller only.
CabliNg aNd portal settiNg For Nas aNd isCsi
This section uses illustrated examples to demonstrate some cabling schemes that can be used for NAS and
iSCSI operation as well as the corresponding port and portal conguration create using the I/O Network
Management menu located in the NAS Conguration menus.
As a reminder, the physical ports for data and management are pictured below with data ports numbered. The
tables with the examples used in this section refer to the controllers and physical data ports by number.
Controller1
Controller2
Management Management
Data
1
2 3 4
Data
1
2 3 4
Management and Data ports on Vess R2600iD