Dell PowerFlex 4.5.x Administration Guide

Create a file system for SMB shares

A file system must be created on the NAS server before you can create an SMB share.

1. Select File > File Systems and click Create.
2. Continue to work through the Create File System wizard.

   Option	Description
   Select NAS Server	Select a NAS server enabled for SMB.
   Advanced SMB Settings	Optionally choose from the following: Sync Writes Enabled Oplocks Enabled Notify on Write Enabled Notify on Access Enabled
   File System Details	Provide the file system name, and the size of the file system. The file system size can be from 3 GB to 256 TB. NOTE:All thin file systems, regardless of size, have 1.5GB reserved for metadata upon creation. For example, after creating a 100GB thin file system, immediately shows 1.5GB used. When the file system is mounted to a host, it shows 98.5GB of usable capacity. This is because the metadata space is reserved from the usable file system capacity.
   SMB Share	Optionally, configure the initial SMB Share. You can add shares to the file system after the initial file system configuration.
   Protection Policy	Optionally, provide a protection policy for the file system. NOTE:PowerFlex supports snapshots for file storage protection. Replication protection is not supported for file systems. If a protection policy is set for both replication and snapshot protections, PowerFlex implements the snapshot policy on the file system, and ignores the replication policy for the file system.
   Summary	Review the summary. Go back to make necessary updates.

3. Click Create File System.
   The file system is displayed in the File System list, and if you created an SMB Share, it is displayed in the SMB Share list.