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Figure 37 Containment Model: PS Series Storage and FS Series NAS Reserve
The addition of the FS Series NAS appliance to a PS Series group does not change the functional
behavior of PS Series groups and pools. PS Series groups and pools are explained in more detail in
sections 5.1 and 5.1.1.
12.3 NAS Container
To provision NAS storage, you need to create NAS containers within the NAS cluster. Inside a NAS
Container you can create multiple CIFS shares and/or NFS exports. Access to all shares and exports is
through a single client virtual IP address.
You can create a single large container, or you can create many separate containers. You can apply
different backup, snapshot, security, and quota policies to each container. Creating multiple
containers gives you the flexibility to apply different management policies to different containers. The
number and size of the containers in a NAS cluster depends on the storage needs of your NAS clients
and applications. You can increase and decrease the size of containers as needed. The relationship
between the NAS Cluster, NAS Reserve, NAS Containers, CIFS shares and NFS exports is shown in
Figure 38 below. Note that you can setup “mixed protocol” access to portions of a container. This
means that the same portion of the container can be simultaneously mounted by NFS clients and
mapped by CIFs clients.
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