Dell EqualLogic PS6100 series - Page 8

March 2013 Dell EqualLogic Configuration Guide v14.1 vii
7.3.4
Redundant SAN configuration .................................................................................................. 7-72
7.3.5 Partially redundant SAN configurations .................................................................................. 7-74
7.3.6 Minimum cabling scenarios: PS4100 and PS6100 ................................................................ 7-75
8 Mixed speed environments - Integrating 1GbE and 10GbE SANs ...................................................... 8-78
8.1 Design considerations ........................................................................................................................ 8-78
8.1.1 Optimizing Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol behavior ............................................................ 8-79
8.2 Mixed speed SAN best practices ...................................................................................................... 8-80
9 Blade server chassis integration ............................................................................................................... 9-82
9.1 Designing a SAN using blade chassis I/O modules with arrays directly attached ................... 9-84
9.1.1 SAN design for multiple M1000e enclosure .......................................................................... 9-90
9.2 Designing a SAN using blade Pass-through module .................................................................... 9-94
9.3 Designing a SAN using blade chassis I/O modules as host access to external switches for array
connection ....................................................................................................................................................... 9-96
10 Fluid File system................................................................................................................................... 10-103
10.1 FS Series architecture ..................................................................................................................... 10-104
10.1.1 FS Series solution for file only storage................................................................................. 10-104
10.2 Dell FluidFS ................................................................................................................................... 10-105
11 FS Series NAS Appliances .................................................................................................................... 11-107
11.1 Equallogic NAS appliance supported configuration limits........................................................ 11-107
11.2 Initial NAS cluster valid configurations ........................................................................................ 11-109
11.3 FS7500 system components .......................................................................................................... 11-110
11.4 FS7500 file system operation on controller failover .................................................................. 11-111
11.5 FS7600 components ....................................................................................................................... 11-111
11.6 FS7610 components ........................................................................................................................ 11-112
12 FS Series file level operations ............................................................................................................. 12-113
12.1 NAS cluster ........................................................................................................................................ 12-113
12.2 NAS reserve ....................................................................................................................................... 12-113
12.2.1 Relationship between PS Series groups, pools and NAS reserve..................................... 12-113
12.3 NAS Container ..................................................................................................................................12-114
12.3.1 NAS Container security styles ................................................................................................ 12-115
12.4 NAS Container snapshots ...............................................................................................................12-116
12.5 NAS Snapshots and Replication ..................................................................................................... 12-117
12.5.1 Snapshots ................................................................................................................................... 12-117
12.5.2 Replication ................................................................................................................................. 12-117
13 FS Series NAS Configuration ............................................................................................................. 13-120