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Configuring the Nasuni Edge Appliance
Key Terms
The following terms are helpful in understanding the Nasuni Edge Appliance:
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Nasuni Edge Appliance (Filer): The virtual or physical appliance in your data center that
integrates with your infrastructure via CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, FTP/SFTP, or HTTPS/REST protocols.
The Nasuni Edge Appliance can be mapped as a network drive.
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Nasuni Edge Appliance user interface: The Web-based graphical user interface with which
you configure and manage the Nasuni Edge Appliance. The Nasuni Edge Appliance user
interface is accessible with supported Web browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Internet
Explorer, Safari, and Google Chrome.
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Nasuni Management Console (NMC): The Web-accessible appliance with which you can
configure and manage multiple Nasuni Edge Appliances. The Nasuni Management Console is
accessible with supported Web browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Apple
Safari, and Google Chrome.
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Cloud storage: Internet-based, highly protected, unlimited storage.
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Volume: A set of files and directories (CIFS, NFS, and FTP/SFTP) or blocks of data (iSCSI).
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Share/export: An access point to a folder on a volume that can be shared or exported on your
network. Access to a CIFS share can be customized on a user-level or group-level basis. You
can create many shares or exports on a volume, for different purposes or audiences.
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Cache: The local storage of the Nasuni Edge Appliance. All data and metadata that is accessed
regularly is kept locally in the cache. If requested data is not locally resident, it is staged into the
cache and provided for the request.
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Snapshot: A snapshot is a complete picture of your volume at a specific point in time.
Snapshots offer data protection by enabling you to recover data deleted in error or to restore an
entire file system. After a snapshot has been taken and is sent to cloud storage, it is not
possible to modify that snapshot.
Nasuni Edge Appliance Initial Configuration Guide 8.3
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