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NAS Overview#

The NAS feature provides file-level storage/access within a VergeOS system, allowing you to create volumes of files to store on your distributed storage and mount external file systems.

Benefits of the NAS Feature#

  • Manage and backup file-level storage within your VergeOS system
  • Take advantage of VergeOS storage efficiencies, such as deduplication, for file-level storage
  • Mount external file systems to access within your VergeOS environment
  • Import data into your VergeOS system for absorbing external workloads, performing backups, etc.
  • Export data and/or workloads from VergeOS for third-party backup, compliance, etc.

NAS Setup Steps#

  1. Add a NAS Service

  2. Optional - Integrate with Active Directory

  3. Create Volumes (Each volume is its own directory tree that can be customized for security, snapshot, access, antivirus, max size, and sharing settings.)

    • Local Volumes are stored within VergeOS, consuming vSAN storage.
    • Remote Volumes are external file systems that are mounted to the VergeOS system and presented as if local.

  4. Create Shares to provide NFS and/or CIFS access to NAS volumes.

  5. Optional - Configure Volume Snapshots for customized volume retention and/or quiesced snapshots (Non-quiesced NAS volumes can be restored from cloud snapshots to be used for restore.)