Table Of Contents - Dell DX6000 Deployment Manual

Dell DX Object Storage - File Gateway Deployment Guide
Contents
Scope of this Document and Requirements ......................................................................... 4
Conventions Used in This Document ................................................................................. 4
Working with Files and Commands ................................................................................... 4
Deployment Checklist .................................................................................................. 5
Single-Server, Standalone Authentication, Local Spooler ...................................................... 5
Single-Server, Active Directory Member, Local Spooler ........................................................ 5
Failover, Standalone Authentication, External Spooler ........................................................ 6
Failover, Active Directory Member, External Spooler .......................................................... 6
Site Survey ............................................................................................................... 6
Architecture ............................................................................................................. 7
Standard hardware ................................................................................................... 7
Specific CFS Configurations ......................................................................................... 7
Single-server Configuration ...................................................................................... 7
Hardware ......................................................................................................... 7
Network .......................................................................................................... 8
Failover Configuration ............................................................................................ 8
Hardware ......................................................................................................... 8
Network .......................................................................................................... 9
Gateway Protocols ................................................................................................ 10
Other hardware ...................................................................................................... 10
Software .............................................................................................................. 10
How it all works together .......................................................................................... 11
Standard DX Object Storage Cluster ........................................................................... 11
DX Object Storage File Gateway (single-server) ............................................................. 12
DX Object Storage File Gateway (Failover) ................................................................... 13
Set up the DX Object Storage Cluster ............................................................................... 14
Assumptions and Requirements ................................................................................... 14
Configure the Cluster ............................................................................................... 14
Set up the CFS Server ................................................................................................. 16
Assumptions and Requirements ................................................................................... 16
Validate BIOS settings .............................................................................................. 16
Create RAID1 Volumes .............................................................................................. 17
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