NAS Overview

Overview of the VergeOS NAS feature for file-level storage, including benefits, setup steps, local and remote volumes, Active Directory integration, and share creation.

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 system snapshots to be used for restore.)