Dell NX3500 manual Solution, NAS Volume Example

•Quotas—Quotas are also defined per NAS volume. Different quota policies can be applied to different NAS volumes, allowing the administrator to focus on managing quotas when it is appropriate.

Some of the usage examples are copy operations, list operations, and move operations. Table 6-2 provides an example of an organization that has various departments and how NAS volumes can be created. The right solution depends on the customer’s requirements because NAS volumes are flexible and they can be expanded and reduced on demand.

Table 6-2. NAS Volume Example

Department	Preferred	Snapshots	Replication	Backup	CIFS or NFS	Hourly Change %
	Access				Clients and	of Existing Data
	Management				R/W Mix	(1% And Above is
	Control				(Common is	High)
					80/20)
Post	NFS	Hourly	No	Weekly	20–20/80	1%
Production
Administration	CIFS	No	No	Weekly	10–50/50	None
and Finance
Broadcast	Mixed	No	No	Weekly	10–90/10	None
Press	CIFS	Daily	No	No	5–10/90	5%
						(approximately)
Marketing	CIFS	Daily	Yes	No	5–50/50	None

Solution 1

Create five NAS volumes based on the departments. The administrator logically breaks up the storage and the management into functional groups. In this scenario, the departmental requirements are quite different and supports the design to logically create NAS volumes along department lines.

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