Contents
1 Before you start..........................................................................................5
Overview................................................................................................................................5
Multi-node systems....................................................................................................................6
Multi-node terminology.........................................................................................................7
Node............................................................................................................................7
Couplet..........................................................................................................................7
Cluster...........................................................................................................................7
VIF................................................................................................................................7
CLI................................................................................................................................7
Failover/Resilience .........................................................................................................8
Service set......................................................................................................................8
FC restrictions.................................................................................................................8
For more information.................................................................................................................9
Overview..............................................................................................................................10
Emulation types......................................................................................................................10
Flexible emulation...................................................................................................................13
Fibre Channel topologies....................................................................................................13
Zoning.............................................................................................................................14
3 NAS shares.............................................................................................17
Operating system support........................................................................................................17
Backup application support......................................................................................................17
4 Data deduplication...................................................................................19
5 Replication..............................................................................................22
What is an appliance?............................................................................................................22
Replication overview...............................................................................................................22
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