- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Introduction
- Revision history
- Initial configuration and setup
- Performing common tasks
- Displaying system information at a glance
- Managing block storage
- Protection domains
- Fault sets
- Storage data servers
- Storage pools
- Acceleration pools
- Devices
- Volumes
- NVMe targets
- Hosts
- Managing file storage
- Overview of configuring NAS servers
- About file system storage
- File protection
- Create a protection policy
- Create snapshot rules
- Create a snapshot
- Assign a protection policy to a file system
- Unassign a protection policy
- Modify a protection policy
- Delete a protection policy
- Modify a snapshot rule
- Delete a snapshot rule
- Refresh a file system using snapshot
- Restore a file system from a snapshot
- Protecting a block storage environment
- Snapshots
- Create snapshots
- Overwrite volume content from a snapshot
- Set bandwidth and IOPS limits for snapshots
- Lock and unlock snapshots
- Delete snapshots
- Map snapshots
- Unmap snapshots
- Increase the size of a snapshot
- Migrate a snapshot vTree
- Pause snapshot vTree migration
- Roll back snapshot vTree migration
- Set snapshot vTree migration priority
- Snapshot policies
- Remote protection
- Extract and upload certificates
- Journal capacity
- Add a peer system
- Restart the replication cluster
- SDRs
- Replication consistency group
- Replication direction and mapping
- Create an RCG
- Map RCG target volumes to hosts
- Unmap a host from RCG target volumes
- Set the target to inconsistent mode
- Set the target to consistent mode
- Modify RPO
- Add a replication pair to an RCG
- Pause replication for an RCG
- Resume replication for an RCG
- Create a snapshot of an RCG volume
- Add an RCG snapshot policy
- Perform a failover
- Reverse replication
- Restore replication
- Test Failover
- Stop a failover test
- Freeze an RCG
- Unfreeze an RCG
- Activate an RCG
- Terminate replication in an RCG
- Delete an RCG
- Pause creation of an initial copy
- Resume creation of initial copy
- Set copying priority
- Unpair from RCG
- Snapshots
- Performing lifecycle operations for a resource group
- Deploying a resource configuration in a resource group
- Basic tasks
- Deploying a resource group
- Adding an existing resource group
- Updating a resource group with new firmware and software
- Viewing a compliance report
- Entering and exiting service mode
- Replacing a drive
- Replacing NVDIMM node or battery
- Reconfiguring MDM roles
- Migrating vCLS VMs to shared storage
- Adding components to a resource group
- Resize a volume
- Removing resources from a resource group
- Adding NVMe/TCP storage access
- Additional resource group management tasks
- Basic tasks
- Preparing a template for a resource group deployment
- Basic tasks
- Additional template management tasks
- Deploying a resource configuration in a resource group
- Managing resources
- Basic tasks
- Additional resource management tasks
- Monitoring events and alerts
- Configuring system settings
- User management
- Repositories
- Getting started
- Networking
- Events and alerts
- License management
- Security
- Serviceability
- Software upgrade
- PowerFlex Manager user interface reference
- Additional administration activities
- Retrieving logs for the PowerFlex nodes
- Retrieving logs for PowerFlex components
- Retrieving additional PowerFlex logs
- Enabling audit logging
- Managing storage devices using CloudLink
- Understanding NVMe over TCP load balancing
- Managing NAS server configuration
- Migrating to NVMe/TCP on ESXi
Dell PowerFlex 4.5.x Administration Guide
NAS servers
Use the page to create, view, access, and modify NAS servers.
Create a NAS server
Select Create to launch the Create NAS Server wizard.
NOTE:If you plan to join the NAS server to Active Directory (AD), you must have NTP configured on your system.
You provide the following information the first time you create a NAS server. You can add or modify the settings after you have created the server.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Details | NAS server name and network details |
| Sharing Protocol | Type of protocol:
Enter the Windows Server Settings, or Unix Directory Services setting, or both for multiprotocol. See the NAS Server Sharing Protocols help for more information. Enable DNS and enter the DNS server details. DNS is required for:
See the NAS Server Naming Services help for more information. |
| User Mapping | If you have enabled SMB to join the active directory domain, or enabled the NAS server for both SMB and NFS, then you must provide the user mapping information.
See the NAS Server Sharing Protocols help for more information. |
Modify the NAS server name and description
Select a NAS server, and select Modify to change the name or description of the NAS server.
Move a NAS server
When you create a new NAS server, node placement is automatic. Use this option to move the NAS server to another node.
Swap Nodes
Use this option to swap the roles between the primary and the secondary nodes for the selected NAS Server.
Configure the settings of an existing NAS server
Select the NAS server name to get to the details for a specific server. You can add, modify, and delete NAS server settings from the NAS server details page.
The following rules apply to changing NAS server settings:
- You cannot disable multiprotocol file sharing for a NAS server once a file system is created on that NAS server.
- You cannot disable DNS for:
- NAS servers that support multiprotocol file sharing.
- NAS servers that support SMB file sharing and that are joined to an Active Directory (AD).
- To reconfigure a NAS server that supports SMB-only or NFS-only file systems so that it supports multiprotocol (both types of file systems simultaneously), first enable a UNIX directory service and DNS server for that NAS server.
- If you choose to change from an AD realm to a custom realm after the NAS server is successfully created with Secure NFS, you cannot create any NFS exports until you perform the following operations.
- Create a Keytab file.
- Remove the AD realm from the NAS server.
- Enter the username and password for the AD server.
- Enter the custom realm.
- Upload the Keytab file.
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