Chapter7
Files, NAS, and Objects
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:
- NAS protocols including NFS and SMB/CIFS
- Traditional NAS arrays
- Unified storage arrays
- Scale-out NAS
- Object storage devices
- Content-aware storage
- Compliance archiving
In this chapter, you'll look closely at the major protocols involved with NAS, file-serving, and object storage environments. You'll start out by looking at traditional file-serving and NAS environments, before moving on to more-modern and far more interesting scale-out NAS technologies. You'll then move on to the modern and extremely interesting world of object storage.
This chapter covers NFS and SMB/CIFS file-serving ...
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