Dell PowerVault NX1950 - Manual (Page 11)

Deployment Guide 11
Share and Storage Management
The Share and Storage Management snap-in allows you to easily set up and
manage shared folders and storage. Share and Storage Management provides
the following features:
• PowerVault NX1950 Management Console-based management of shared
folders and storage.
• Provision Storage wizard for creating and configuring storage, creating a
logical unit number (LUN), and formatting a volume.
• Provision a Shared Folder wizard or Shared Folders wizard for creating
and configuring shared folders that can be accessed either using the Server
Message Block (SMB) or NFS protocol.
These features enable you to complete most of the administrative tasks required
to create and manage shared folders and volumes without using the shared
folder management, storage manager for SANs, or disk management snap-ins.
This also includes configuring quotas to restrict the quantity of data,
configuring file screening to prevent certain file types or only allowing certain
file types defined by the administrator, and enabling indexing.
Share and storage management includes the following tabs for managing
shared folders and volumes:
• Volumes — This tab displays all volumes available to the server and
information about each volume.
• Shares — This tab displays all shared folders created using share and
storage management, and information about each shared folder.
Share and storage management includes support for configuring single
instance storage (SIS). SIS recovers disk space by reducing the amount of
redundant data stored on a volume. This is accomplished by identifying
identical files and storing only a single copy of the file in the SIS common
store. SIS replaces the files with pointers to the file in the SIS common store.
Share and storage management also incorporates other snap-ins that can be
used to manage specific functionality and provide advanced management
capabilities. These snap-ins include:
• Share Manager
• File Server Resource Manager which includes quota management, file
screening management, and storage reports management
• Storage manager for SANs