Network Atached Storage
Griffee, Bill (2013)
Griffee, Bill
Mikkelin ammattikorkeakoulu
2013
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2013052410563
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2013052410563
Tiivistelmä
Digital distribution of media has grown increasingly important as an additional requirement is to have this media available to multiple users. Traditionally, servers have filled this role in companies by providing storage that can be accessed by other devices on a network, typically through file sharing or serving or via a storage area network, while providing other services as well. Network attached storage (NAS) systems expand upon traditional servers in that they are built specifically with file sharing as their primary role and are usually limited to just that. The benefit of this is that by being built specifically for this purpose, NAS systems can fulfill these needs with less powerful hardware than what was is necessary for a full server.
This thesis will be looking into various forms of NAS systems, the protocols used on them and how they are commonly used. A comparison will be made of several software-based NAS solutions and the one most suited to the customer’s requirements will be implemented. The requirements of the customer, Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences, are a NAS system that can provide shared storage via SMB/CIFS and NFS, act as an iSCSI storage target and must utilize a PCI-express based hybrid hard drive which uses solid state flash memory as a cache for the standard hard drive attached to it.
This thesis will be looking into various forms of NAS systems, the protocols used on them and how they are commonly used. A comparison will be made of several software-based NAS solutions and the one most suited to the customer’s requirements will be implemented. The requirements of the customer, Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences, are a NAS system that can provide shared storage via SMB/CIFS and NFS, act as an iSCSI storage target and must utilize a PCI-express based hybrid hard drive which uses solid state flash memory as a cache for the standard hard drive attached to it.