Dell Fluidfs - Dell EqualLogic PS6100 series Configuration Manual

Figure 33 FS Series NAS (file only)
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Dell FluidFS

Dell EqualLogic FS Series appliances, coupled with PS Series arrays, offer a high performance, high
availability, scalable NAS solution.
FS Series Firmware V2.0 adds the following features:
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NAS Container Replication
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NAS Antivirus Service for CIFS Shares
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New Monitoring Features
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Support for FS7600 and FS7610 Appliances
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Dell FluidFS is a high performance clustered file system. It provides fully interoperable multi-protocol
file sharing for UNIX, Linux, and Windows® clients using standard CIFS and NFS file access protocols
and authentication methods (Active Directory, LDAP, NIS). Some of the key features provided in
FluidFS include:
Single namespace: FluidFS presents a single file system namespace (up to 509TB usable capacity),
accessible via a virtual IP address, regardless of cluster size.
High availability and reliability: The FS Series architecture includes a high speed cluster interconnect
between controller nodes, write cache mirroring, failsafe journaling, and data integrity checks. In a
FluidFS based FS Series cluster, a controller node can fail without affecting data availability or causing
data loss, even if write operations were occurring at the time of failure.
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FluidFS technical whitepaper:
March 2013
http://www.dellstorage.com/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=1578
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