Locations Of Key Components And Connectors - Lenovo N3310 Product Manual

Server Message Block (SMB) File Services provide network shares for the Windows-based user and
server application environments:
Microsoft SQL Server supports placement of log and data files onto an SMB network share
(SQL over SMB).
Microsoft Hyper-V supports placement of virtual machine files onto an SMB network share
(Hyper-V over SMB).
Network File System (NFS) File Services provide network shares for the Linux or Mac based user or
Linux-based server application environments. VMware vSphere virtual machine files can be placed
onto an NFS network share.
Availability and performance:
Microsoft iSCSI Software Target supports Multipath I/O (MPIO), which allows iSCSI clients to use
multiple network paths to a storage server for high availability, fault tolerance, and load balancing
purposes.
SMB Multichannel allows the use of multiple redundant network paths between application server
SMB clients and SMB file shares that are hosted on Windows Storage Servers for better throughput
while maintaining network availability.
Vendor-independent network teaming allows combining of multiple network interfaces into a single
fault-tolerant or load-balancing group for better performance and availability.
NTFS in Windows Server 2012 R2 improves availability by performing online corruption scanning,
the use of self-healing techniques, and reducing file system repair times.
Data management:
Data Deduplication can help to significantly improve the efficiency of storage space usage.
VSS for SMB file shares allows performing of backup operations by using the snapshots of remote
file shares that are supporting SMB-based server applications (for example, SQL over SMB).
DFS Replication provides synchronization capabilities across limited bandwidth network
connections in the distributed environments.
Microsoft BranchCache® optimizes the usage of WAN links by caching the remote data locally
based on predefined policies.

Locations of key components and connectors

The following figure shows the front of the N3310 storage server.
Figure 3. Front view of the N3310
The following figure shows the rear of the N3310 storage server.
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