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NAS 4000s and 9000s Administration Guide
Protocol Planning
The NAS 4000s and 9000s both support many file sharing protocols, including sharing
protocols for Windows, UNIX, Linux, Novell, Macintosh, Web, and FTP clients. However, not
all of these protocols can take advantage of clustering. If a protocol does not support
clustering, the share will not be available to the clients until the owner cluster node is brought
back online.
HP recommends placing cluster aware and non cluster aware protocols on different file shares.
Use the information in
Table 13
to determine whether it is advantageous to use clustering.
Note:
AppleTalk is not supported on clustered disk resources. AppleTalk requires local memory for
volume indexing. On failover events, the memory map is lost and data corruption can occur.
Table 13: Sharing Protocol Cluster Support
Protocol
Client Variant
Cluster Aware
(supports failover)
Supported
CIFS/SMB
Windows NT
Yes
Yes
Windows 2000
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME
NFS
UNIX
Yes
Yes
Linux
HTTP
Web
No
Yes
FTP
Many
Yes
Yes
NCP
Novell
No
Yes
AppleTalk
Apple
No
No
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