1-2 Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N System Administrator and Command Reference Guide
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You administer the filer using the Data ONTAP 5.3 operating system. You can use the
following methods of administering a filer:
Command execution through the filers command line
Command execution through Microsoft® Windows NT® operating system
Configuration file editing
Command execution through FilerView
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Network file service The filer enables users on client workstations to
create, delete, modify, and access files stored on it.
Client workstations are connected to the filer
through network connections.
Multiprotocol file
sharing
Clients can use the following protocols to access
data on the filer:
CIFS (Common Internet File System)used by
Windows clients.
HTTP (HyperText Transmission Protocol)
used by the World Wide Web.
NFS (Network File System)used by UNIX®
systems.
Files written using one protocol are accessible to
clients of any protocol, provided that filer licenses
and permissions allow it. For example, an NFS cli-
ent can access a file created by a CIFS client, and a
CIFS client can access a file created by an NFS
client.
Data protection The filer protects disk data in the following ways:
Network Transaction Loggingthe filer
records network transactions in case of fail-
ures and reconstructs transactions on
recovery.
Disk Redundancythe filer reconstructs data
disks in case of disk failure.
Autosupport Mail notifications about filer problems is automati-
cally sent to the customer-defined administrator
accounts.