Users Guide

Create NAS servers
This chapter includes the following information.
Topics:
• Overview of configuring NAS servers
• Create a NAS server for NFS (UNIX-only) file systems
• Configure NAS Server Naming Services
• Configure NAS server Sharing Protocols
• Configure Kerberos for NAS server Security
Overview of configuring NAS servers
Before you can provision file storage on the storage system, a NAS server must be running on the system. A NAS server is a
file server that uses the SMB protocol, NFS protocol, or both to share data with network hosts. It also catalogs, organizes, and
optimizes read and write operations to the associated file systems.
This document describes how to configure a NAS server with NFS protocol, on which file systems with NFS exports can be
created.
Create a NAS server for NFS (UNIX-only) file systems
You create NAS servers before creating file systems.
Be sure to have your NAS network information available.
1. Select Storage > NAS Servers.
2. Select Create.
3. Continue to work through the Create NAS Server wizard.
Wizard
Screen
Description
Details Enter a NAS Server name, description, and network information.
NOTE: You cannot reuse VLANs that are being used for the management and storage networks.
Sharing
Protocol
Select Sharing Protocol
Select NFSv3, or NFSv4, or both.
NOTE: If you select SMB and an NFS protocol, you automatically enable the NAS server to support
multiprotocol.
Unix Directory Services (Naming Services)
You can configure the naming services with a combination of Local Files and NIS, or LDAP.
Refer to the following sections for configuring:
● Using Local Files
● With NIS
● With LDAP
You can choose to enable Secure NFS here.
Secure NFS requires the following:
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