About file sharing protocols
Access Appliance provides support for multiple file sharing protocols.
Access Appliance offers unified access, which provides the option to share a file system or a directory in a file system with more than one protocol. For unified access, only certain protocols combinations are supported.
Table: Protocols
Protocol | Definition |
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Amazon S3 | The object server lets you store and retrieve the data that is stored in Access Appliance using the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) protocol.
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NFS | All the nodes in the cluster can serve the same NFS share at the same time in read-write mode. This creates very high aggregated throughput rates, because you can use the sum of the bandwidth of all the nodes. Cache-coherency is maintained throughout the cluster. Access Appliance supports the NFS kernel-based server. |