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Resilient Overlay Network (RON)
Audience for this Manual
Using this Manual
CLI Maintenance Guide
You can connect multiple ARXes with a Resilient Overlay Network (RON), which
can reside on top of any IP network. This provides a network for distributing and
accessing file storage. ARXes can replicate storage to other switches in the same
RON, updating the replicas periodically as the writable master files change. This is
called a shadow copy, where a source volume on one switch periodically copies its
files to one or more shadow volumes on other switches. Clients can access the shadow
volumes at multiple geographic locations, independent to where the source volume
resides.
This manual is intended for
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network technicians responsible for layer 1 and 2 networks,
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network engineers responsible for the Internet Protocol (IP) layer (layer 3),
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storage engineers who design and manage storage systems (SANs, NASes, and
DASes), and
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crypto officers who manage all of the Critical Security Parameters (CSPs) of a
network.
The text presumes that all readers are comfortable with a command-line interface
(CLI), especially one based on the Cisco IOS.
This manual contains instructions for maintaining an ARX after it has been fully
installed, it has been fully provisioned, and it has provided service to your clients.
Other manuals explain installation and provisioning. The Hardware Installation
Guide contains instructions to install the switch, set up its management IP, and
prepare it for CLI provisioning. After a successful installation, a network engineer can
then use the
GUI Quick Start: Network Setup
Network-Management Guide
engineer can use the GUI wizards or the
aggregate storage and set up storage policies.
manual or the
to set up all networking parameters. Finally, a storage
CLI Storage-Management Guide
Introduction
Audience for this Manual
CLI
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