Optimizing Nas - Aberdeen AberNAS 120 Manual

Microsoft® Windows Storage Server 2003 White Paper

Optimizing NAS

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Vendors can configure NAS hardware (and firmware ) such that it is optimized for network file I/O
processing and storage. These components include the NAS processor, memory and caching, and
the storage devices. There are many different ways to optimize file serving, and the particular
approaches taken are vendor specific.
The next section describes the networking, file serving and storage features in
Windows Storage Server 2003 that drive these capabilities.
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Software on the vendor hardware; not part of the OS.