Before You Begin; Introduction To The Equallogic Fs7500 - Dell EqualLogic FS7500 Installation And Setup

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1 Before You Begin

Proper planning and adherence to requirements help ensure a successful installation. Before you begin the

installation, review the steps for getting started and perform all the preliminary tasks.

A PS Series group provides iSCSI-accessible block storage. With the latest version of the PS Series firmware

and the addition of an EqualLogic FS7500, the same PS Series group can provide block storage and support for

NAS (Network Attached Storage).

A NAS service can support multiple, scalable NAS file systems. On each file system, you can create multiple

CIFS shares and NFS exports. Clients with the correct credentials can then access the shares and exports

through the NAS service IP address.

The NAS service network configuration requires three networks: client, SAN, and internal.

For security reasons, the internal network is usually a private network, and the client network is separate from

the SAN and internal network. See

Network Configuration Overview on page

37.

Figure 1

shows the NAS service hardware configuration.

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