Dell PowerStore PowerStore T and Q Networking Guide for Storage Services

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Storage Services

PowerStore appliances are configured for Fibre Channel after initial deployment. You can add storage services after initial deployment.

Storage services include the following protocols and services.

Table 1. Storage services and network descriptionsLists the storage services and network descriptions.
Network	Description
Cluster	The Cluster network is used: To manage internal communication such as to the cluster database, and between appliances within a cluster. The intracluster management network is encrypted with IPSEC. For intracluster data mobility traffic, such as storage migration between appliances. To enable file services on a Unified appliance, communication is routed within the PowerStore appliance rather than the top-of-rack (ToR) switch.
NVMe/TCP	NVMe/TCP storage network (block) traffic including PowerStore appliance target portals for front-end traffic.
iSCSI	Used for iSCSI storage network (block) traffic including PowerStore appliance target portals for front-end traffic.
Replication and Block Import	Used for PowerStore target portals for front-end traffic for both file and block storage and external data mobility traffic for block storage.
Network Attached Storage	Network attached storage (NAS): Front-end access such as NFS, SMB, and FTP Active Directory (AD) for the NAS services External data mobility traffic for file storage NAS services are optional. NAS services are only available with Unified deployments. To enable a Unified deployment, select the Unified mode when in the PowerStore cluster Initial Configuration Wizard. A NAS network can be extended with a Fail-Safe Network (FSN). An FSN extends link failover into the network by providing switch-level redundancy when the Top-of-Rack switches are not configured with an MC-LAG interconnect. An FSN can be configured on a port, a link aggregation, or any combination of the two.
File Import	Used with the File Mobility network to import File storage from remote systems. The File Import network requires that the: PowerStore T model is deployed to support NAS services. File Mobility network is configured on the Management switch. For details about the File Mobility network and how to configure it, see Appendix 1: File Mobility.