Quantum 3.5 manual Document Organization

Preface

Document Organization

Document Organization

This document contains the following chapters:

•Chapter 1, “Installing StorNext File System and Storage Manager,” provides system requirements, pre-installation information, and instructions for installing StorNext File System and Storage Manger on a metadata controller (MDC).

•Chapter 2, “Installing StorNext File System,” provides system requirements, pre-installation information, and instructions for installing StorNext File System (without Storage Manager) on a metadata controller (MDC).

•Chapter 3, “Installing the StorNext Client,” provides system requirements, pre-installation information, and instructions for installing the StorNext client software.

•Chapter 4, “Configuring StorNext,” describes how to use the StorNext configuration wizard and the Windows configuration utilities to create a basic StorNext configuration, and how to configure a distributed LAN client or server.

•Appendix A, “Uninstalling StorNext,” describes how to remove StorNext software from a server or client system.

•Appendix B, “StorNext Administration Tasks,”describes how to perform file system tasks that do not apply to a typical StorNext setup.

•Appendix C, “StorNext Files,”describes the files used and modified to configure a file system.

•Appendix D, “Quality of Service Guide,”describes how to configure and use the StorNext File System (SNFS) Quality of Service (QOS) feature.

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