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CIFS

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INDOWS

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Method 1: The address input in Explorer ....................................................................................... 100

 

Method 2: The command line input from Start button .................................................................. 101

 

Method 3: Map a network drive in Explorer ................................................................................... 102

 

NFS

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INUX

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Redhat Linux 5 ................................................................................................................................ 103

 

Redhat Linux 6 ................................................................................................................................ 104

 

Open Solaris 10/11 .......................................................................................................................... 104

 

NFS

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HPERE

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AFP

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FTP .......................................................................................................................................................... 106

 

Method 1: Using command line shell ............................................................................................. 106

 

Method 2: Using FTP client application .......................................................................................... 107

 

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DAV .................................................................................................................................................. 108

 

Method 1: Windows 7 using Map Network Drive wizard ............................................................... 108

 

Method 2: Using 3

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Chapter 6

 

SOFTWARE APPLICATION .................................................................................................................. 113

 

M

ICROSOFT I

SCSI

 INITIATOR

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Connect to iSCSI Target ................................................................................................................... 113

 

Setup MPIO ..................................................................................................................................... 114

 

Setup MC/S ..................................................................................................................................... 116

 

Disconnect ...................................................................................................................................... 117

 

GLOSSARY AND ACRONYM LIST ............................................................................................................................... 119

 

INDEX ...................................................................................................................................................................... 121

 

 

 

Summary of Contents for U Series

Page 1: ...JetStor U Series Unified Storage User Manual JetStor SAS 716U JetStor SAS 724U JetStor SAS 716U 10G JetStor SAS 724U 10G Version 8 19 February 2013...

Page 2: ...roduced or transmitted without written permission from Advanced Computer Network Corporation Trademarks All products and trade names used in this manual are trademarks or registered trademarks of thei...

Page 3: ...you have basic knowledge of Redundant Array of Independent Disks RAID Storage Area Network SAN Network Attached Storage NAS Internet SCSI iSCSI Serial attached SCSI SAS Serial ATA SATA technology CAUT...

Page 4: ...cates required or expected values Example a b indicates that you must choose either a or b vertical bar Indicates that you have a choice between two or more options or arguments Slash Indicates all op...

Page 5: ...loading of the circuits might have on overcurrent protection and supply wiring Appropriate consideration of equipment nameplate ratings should be used when addressing this concern 5 Reliable Earthing...

Page 6: ...t 1993 2013 Advanced Computer Network Corp All Rights Reserved 6 U Series User Manual CAUTION Risk of explosion if battery is replaced by incorrect type Dispose of used batteries according to the inst...

Page 7: ...EW 11 PRODUCT OVERVIEW 11 Model Comparison 11 Package Contents 12 HARDWARE 12 Front View 12 Disk Drive Assembly 14 Rear View 15 RAID CONCEPTS 18 RAID Levels 18 NAS CONCEPTS 18 ISCSI CONCEPTS 19 Chapte...

Page 8: ...BASIC CONFIGURATION 44 INTERFACE HIERARCHY 44 OPERATION TAB SUMMARY 45 Overview 45 Utilization 46 MENU FILE 47 Download MIB file 47 Download system information 47 MENU CONFIGURATION 47 SUBMENU SYSTEM...

Page 9: ...SI 84 Connection 85 Directory Services 86 Backup 89 Amazon S3 89 Replication 90 AntiVirus 92 Settings 92 Report 94 SUBMENU ENCLOSURE 94 Hardware monitor 94 UPS 95 MENU VIEW 96 SUBMENU SUMMARY 96 Event...

Page 10: ...Linux 5 103 Redhat Linux 6 104 Open Solaris 10 11 104 NFS AND VSHPERE5 104 AFP AND MAC OS X 105 FTP 106 Method 1 Using command line shell 106 Method 2 Using FTP client application 107 WEBDAV 108 Metho...

Page 11: ...s provides a flexible intelligent network attached storage NAS solution for virtualized server environments and the growing demand for data storage JetStor Unified Storage system s can provide non sto...

Page 12: ...HDD trays x16 716U 716U 10G Power cords x3 724U 724U 10G Power cords x2 716U 716U 10G RS 232 cables x2 one is for console black color phone jack to DB9 female and the other is for UPS gray color phon...

Page 13: ...ted on the LCD Control Module Number Description 1 LCD display 2 Up button 3 Down button 4 ENT Enter button 5 ESC Escape button 6 MUTE button 7 Power LED Green Power ON Off Power OFF 8 Status LED Red...

Page 14: ...irectly connect to SAS SATA drives SAS SATA Drive The front of each disk tray has four components This table provides details about the front components of a disk tray Number Description 1 Power LED G...

Page 15: ...able now The following example shows the 724U model 724U chassis This table describes the rear modules Number Description 1 Controller 1 CTRL 1 2 Dummy 3 Power Switch ON O OFF 4 Fan Module FAN1 FAN2 5...

Page 16: ...from left to right for 724U 716U Controller health LED Green Controller status normal Red System booting or controller failure Master slave LED only for dual controllers Green This is the Master contr...

Page 17: ...t is used to save debugging information LED 10GbE Link LED 724U 10G 716U 10G Orange Asserted when a 1G link is established and maintained Blue Asserted when a 10G link is establish and maintained 10Gb...

Page 18: ...upported RAID levels follow Type Description Min No of Drives RAID 0 Disk striping 1 RAID 1 Disk mirroring over two disks 2 RAID 5 Striping with interspersed parity over the member disks 3 RAID 6 2 di...

Page 19: ...ystem and mounted iSCSI Concepts iSCSI Internet SCSI is a protocol which encapsulates SCSI Small Computer System Interface commands and data in TCP IP packets for linking storage devices with servers...

Page 20: ...r and iSCSI target The iSCSI initiator requests or initiates any iSCSI communication It requests all SCSI operations like read or write An initiator is usually located on the host side either an iSCSI...

Page 21: ...P Fibre Channel cables Switches All Gigabit switches recommended Or Gigabit switches with VLAN LCAP Trunking optional 724U 10G 716U 10G SFP 10 Gigabit switches with VLAN LCAP Trunking optional CHAP se...

Page 22: ...the BBM Use two screws to tighten the BBM At the rear check that the Master Controller is in its slot CTRL 1 If desired install the optional Slave Controller in its slot CTRL 2 only for dual controlle...

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Page 24: ...d UPS as follows U s i n g R S Using RS 232 cable for UPS gray color phone jack to DB9 male to connect from controller to APC Smart UPS serial cable DB9 female side and then connect the serial cable t...

Page 25: ...rst few seconds after power on the system the Controller Health LED is in RED This is normal because the system is still booting The Controller Health LED will turn Green in a few seconds Power Off th...

Page 26: ...n and amount of RAM Alarm Mute Mutes an alarm after an error occurs View IP Setting Display current IP address subnet mask and gateway Change IP config Set IP address subnet mask and gateway There are...

Page 27: ...ata loss when powering down the storage system it is recommended to execute Reset Shutdown Shutdown Yes to flush the data from the cache to the physical disks Web UI JetStor unified storage provides a...

Page 28: ...ge system The default IP setting is DHCP check the LCM to find the IP address If your network does not have DHCP server you will need to configure a static IP address Enter the IP address into your br...

Page 29: ...vironment Software Installation and Deployment There are standalone and client Server modes in JetCentral software Standalone mode can access JetStor storage directly Client Server mode is centralized...

Page 30: ...stalled in one host For the client server mode both JetCentral client and server program can be installed in one host or can be divided into several hosts JetCentral server program is installed in one...

Page 31: ...er Manual 2 Check the License Agreement and then click Next button 3 Select Standalone or Client Server mode and then click Next button 4 If you select Standalone mode change the location if necessary...

Page 32: ...omputer Network Corp All Rights Reserved 32 U Series User Manual 5 It s Client Server mode Select to install Server or Client Application or both Change the location if necessary otherwise click Next...

Page 33: ...n The JetCentral software contains the following items JetCentral Server It s a Windows based program It s available in Client Server mode JetCentral Client It s a Java based program JRE Java Runtime...

Page 34: ...displays a list of JetStor products in the network environment And Login operation to every JetStor storage Account it can manage users groups and their privileges for client side Take an example of...

Page 35: ...ser Manual Take an example of getting the authorization to a system 1 Select a group name 2 Click Access button It will pop up a window Multi select the systems to be controlled by the group member An...

Page 36: ...box for authentication Enter the JetCentral server IP address account and password which are created in JetCentral server The initial default for admin login is on the following Server 127 0 0 1 This...

Page 37: ...abs There are three operation tabs above the operation area Click it can switch the operation area Indication and Icons In Summary tab there are up to six indicators at the top right corner Operation...

Page 38: ...isplayed It will scan all JetStor storages in the same LAN segment and display in Managed Product Area Click the storage IP which you want to manage It will popup an authentication dialog The initial...

Page 39: ...six indicators at the top right corner In Configuration tab a chassis graphic is displayed below Move the cursor over the graphics A mouse over tip will pop up to briefly describe each part the curso...

Page 40: ...bs above the operation area Click it can switch the operation area Intuitive Graph In configuration tab there are two graphs of the front and rear panel Mouse over the component will display the infor...

Page 41: ...ork Time Protocol server When it is done click Next button 3 Setup a pool Select a RAID level from the drop down list Click Next button The wizard will automatically provide a list of valid RAID level...

Page 42: ...ed 42 U Series User Manual 4 At the confirmation message click Finish button 5 After completion it will create a pool which includes two file systems and one volume 6 The Public folder shares CIFS NFS...

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Page 44: ...ies Delete ZFS Select ZFS Options Create Edit Delete Take snapshot Auto snapshot Snapshot Select ZFS Options Take snapshot LUN Select volume Options Attach Detach Configuration Accounts Users Options...

Page 45: ...shutdown Reboot Shutdown Authentication Account Password Wizard Quick setup Help About About JetCentral Operation Tab Summary The menu View Summary or Summary tab of the operation area is for accessin...

Page 46: ...tage indicator Green Voltage values are normal Red Voltage values are out of range UPS indicator Green UPS is functioning or no UPS is connected Red UPS connection has failed Fan indicator Green Fan i...

Page 47: ...file for SNMP usage Download system information The Download system information will download a compressed file to your local drive It contains event logs debug information and system configuration da...

Page 48: ...Configuration System System setting or System setting tab of the operation area is for accessing the System Date and Time Mail setting Messenger SNMP System Log Server and Event Log Filter option tabs...

Page 49: ...OK button Date and Time The Date and Time icon is used to setup the system time and NTP Network Time Protocol server setting The options available in these dialogs Date and time To change the current...

Page 50: ...OK button Messenger The Messenger icon is used to set up pop up messages via Windows messenger not MSN The options available in this dialog Messenger You must enable the Messenger service in Windows S...

Page 51: ...NG and ERROR event logs There are many SNMP tools available on the internet SNMPc http www snmpc com Net SNMP http net snmp sourceforge net When it is done click OK button System Log Server The System...

Page 52: ...etting The menu Configuration System Network setting or Network setting tab of the operation area is for accessing the Management network port and LAN ports It is used to change IP addresses of networ...

Page 53: ...LAN1 LANn HTTP Download JetCentral page Yes No CIFS Yes Yes NFS Yes Yes AFP Yes Yes WebDAV No Yes iSCSI Yes Yes Link aggregation No Yes This table shows the column descriptions Column Name Description...

Page 54: ...The DNS settings will be applied to all network ports which means you ONLY need to select one of the network ports and start DNS setting Create link aggregation The default mode is no link aggregatio...

Page 55: ...s a logical grouping mechanism implemented on switch device VLANs are collections of switching ports that comprise a single broadcast domain It allows network traffic to flow more efficiently within t...

Page 56: ...iguration tab of the operation area is for accessing the Physical disk S M A R T Pool ZFS Snapshot LUN options Physical Disk Go to Configuration Storage Physical Disk or Configuration Physical disk ta...

Page 57: ...write cache is enabled or disabled The default value is Enabled Standby HDD auto spindown to save power The default value is Disabled Readahead This feature makes data be loaded to disk s buffer in ad...

Page 58: ...ion Pool tab of the operation area provides various functions to manage storage pool such as create expand set home directory delete or view the status of the pools This table shows the column descrip...

Page 59: ...D write cache to the pool Add disks Dedicated spare Assign drives as dedicated spare to the pool Set disk properties Set properties standby readahead command queuing write cache Delete Delete the pool...

Page 60: ...e default value is Disabled Readahead It s to enable or disable the read ahead function The default value is Enabled Command queuing It s to enable or disable the hard drives command queue function Th...

Page 61: ...2 disks 2 We need to expand the capacity of Pool 1 by adding another RAID set a RAID 5 with 4 disks Go to Pool tab Select the pool you want to expand Right click to bring out function menu and select...

Page 62: ...the RAID set members of Pool 1 How to create Read cache and Write cache 1 Make sure you have added proper SSD drives to the system In the Vendor field only SSD drive with coded JetStor string can be...

Page 63: ...s RAID disks only TIP All the file systems and volumes created inside the pool can all benefit from the addition of SSD cache Take an example to set the free PD as dedicated spare disk 1 Go to Add dis...

Page 64: ...the deduplication Compress The status of the compression Copies The number of the copies More explanation in Tip Schedule The status of the schedule Original The original file system or volume of the...

Page 65: ...ands become asynchronous It will ignore the synchronous transaction demands of applications such as database or NFS Standard The default value It depends on the applications Always All write commands...

Page 66: ...nce degradation Deduplication size limit can be removed by the following means Per pool basis Add read cache L2ARC using SSD drives provided by JetStor Technology Per system basis Add more memory to t...

Page 67: ...ithout dedup will take up 22692MB 22GB Enterprise features Compression Compression algorithm adopts LZJB Applied to both file system and volume Compression can be turned ON and OFF on the fly during I...

Page 68: ...Network Corp All Rights Reserved 68 U Series User Manual 3 Copy several bitmap files that are over the size of 20MB 4 Check the network drive property again The actual space taken is less than 20MB w...

Page 69: ...o store user data Applied to both file system and volume Remove stranded or reserved but unused capacity Improve storage efficiency How to use thin provisioning 1 Create a filesystem with thin provisi...

Page 70: ...erved 70 U Series User Manual 2 Check the network drive property The size is the remaining pool size So it s dynamic 3 Copy some files to the share There is no pre allocated space reserved size The us...

Page 71: ...me Snapshot cannot be applied to specific shared folders This table shows the column descriptions Column Name Description Name The snapshot name Used MB The amount of snapshot space that has been used...

Page 72: ...the status of logical unit numbers for each volume This table shows the column descriptions Column Name Description Host iSCSI node name for access control or a wildcard for access by all hosts Target...

Page 73: ...ecause it matches the rule 1 Wildcard and are allowed in this field can replace any words can replace only one character For example iqn host iqn host1 and iqn host2 are accepted iqn host iqn host1 an...

Page 74: ...Delete the user Edit Edit the user Change password Change the user s password Please be aware that before you can create local accounts a storage pool with home directory function enabled must be crea...

Page 75: ...Active Directory or LDAP as directory service you may see the domain users as below Please be aware that no modification add delete edit change password can be made to domain users This can only be do...

Page 76: ...Take an example of creating a group 1 Click Add by clicking mouse right button 2 Enter the Group name The other fields are optional 3 Click OK button to create a group If the system is using Active Di...

Page 77: ...or browse the whole storage pool structure Functions in the right click menu for file system file based access Create Create a file system or volume Edit file system Edit the file system Create folde...

Page 78: ...r a volume 1 Click the Create by clicking mouse right button 2 Enter a Name for the file system or volume 3 Use the drop down list to select a Pool 4 Select Type Property and No of data copies 5 Enter...

Page 79: ...utton to finish adding a share If you want to share the folder using NFS check NFS and click Settings button It will pop up a dialog box Move the mouse cursor over Hostname and Domain A mouse over tip...

Page 80: ...ample JetStor com ee standford edu or web cern ch 5 Everyone Allow access to computers from all kinds of IP addresses 6 Read only and Read Write Set the read write permission CAUTION Be careful of the...

Page 81: ...CIFS NFS AFP FTP WebDAV and iSCSI data services All data services are enabled by default CIFS The CIFS Common Internet File System tab is used to setup CIFS protocol The CIFS is a network protocol tha...

Page 82: ...used to setup NFS protocol NFS is a protocol for sharing files and directories on a network among Linux machines and Unix machines Starting this service will open the following ports on the JetStor U...

Page 83: ...and setup its configurations This table shows the row descriptions Row Name Description Login banner Configurable login banner Default is Welcome to FTP server Max characters are 256 Clients The maxim...

Page 84: ...tocol that allows users to manage files across different operating system platforms Starting this service will open the following ports on the JetStor Unified Storage system TCP 80 httpd Click Change...

Page 85: ...a services This table shows the column descriptions on File service Column Name Description Protocol Data service protocol User Current login user Client The client information Server The server infor...

Page 86: ...urst Length determines the maximum SCSI data payload The default value is 256kb Directory Services The menu Configuration Services Directory services or Directory services tab of the operation area pr...

Page 87: ...be added in Account Domain user and Account Domain group It will take some time to download the accounts at the first time And then it will synchronize with the server automatically Or you may set th...

Page 88: ...DAP directory you wish to load users and groups It is the top level of the LDAP directory tree to be used when searching for resources Suppose that all user accounts and groups are located in the User...

Page 89: ...n be applied to specific shared folders Amazon S3 The Amazon S3 tab is used to setup the popular cloud backup service provided by Amazon Before using the service you must register an Amazon S3 account...

Page 90: ...lication The Replication tab is used to setup the replication service It support local cloning and remote replication to other JetStor Unified Storage arrays There is no limit to the number of how man...

Page 91: ...ample of adding a task 1 Click Add by clicking mouse right button 2 Enter the Task name and select a file system or volume to replicate Then click Next button 3 Select the Local cloning or Remote repl...

Page 92: ...pported antivirus server is Symantec Scan Engine 5 0 or later version The diagram below shows how JetStor Unified Storage interacts with the antivirus server 1 Users try to write a file into JetStor U...

Page 93: ...ted for use with unified storage appliance and file sharing services The purpose is real time monitoring all incoming files writes for continuous protection The actions taken when virus is spotted are...

Page 94: ...tiVirus Report tab of the operation area provides to report the infected files Export report Click button to save the report as a text file with the file name format as log ModelName SerialNumber Date...

Page 95: ...up the shutdown values for when the power goes out This table shows the available options and their descriptions Options Description UPS Type Select UPS Type None No UPS or other vendors Smart UPS APC...

Page 96: ...mmary The menu View Summary or Summary tab of the operation area is for accessing the Overview and Utilization option tabs Please see Operation Tab Summary at the beginning section of this chapter for...

Page 97: ...firmware is for accessing the System and Local expander options System The menu Maintenance Upgrade firmware System is used to upgrade controller firmware Please prepare new controller firmware file n...

Page 98: ...configurations back to the factory default settings The default values are Admin password 00000000 IP address DHCP Reboot and Shutdown The menu Maintenance Reboot and shutdown is used to reboot or sh...

Page 99: ...Rights Reserved 99 U Series User Manual Authentication The menu Maintenance Authentication is used to authenticate the system If the password of the system is changed the authentication is needed Men...

Page 100: ...g of Chapter 4 CIFS and Windows There are several ways to access a network share in Windows XP and Windows 7 operating systems It all follows Windows UNC Universal Naming Convention format Syntax NAS...

Page 101: ...count and password Please put in your account and password When the authentication is clear the share is ready for you to use as follows Method 2 The command line input from Start button Click Start b...

Page 102: ...ork share from JetStor Unified Storage to a drive letter The network share will be automatically mapped the next time you boot your Windows Step 1 Open a Windows Explorer from Start button or by press...

Page 103: ...ions cannot be established the system will automatically try to establish the connection using version 3 protocols Before using the NFS shares please make sure the NFS settings of the shares are prope...

Page 104: ...e name mount point For example mount 192 168 8 180 SQL_DB2 mnt nas Open Solaris 10 11 Open Solaris 10 11 will use NFS version 4 as default Use the following syntax to mount an NFS share mount F nfs o...

Page 105: ...Manual AFP and Mac OS X In Finder go to Go and select Connect to Server Put in the network port IP address that you want to access Click Connect It will bring up a window requesting account and passwo...

Page 106: ...The share is ready for you to access FTP FTP is the basic file transfer tool provided in almost all operating systems You may use FTP function through command line shell FTP client or web browsers Me...

Page 107: ...U Series User Manual Method 2 Using FTP client application There are a lot of FTP client tools in Windows platform such as WSFTP FileZilla In Linux X Window environment there are gFTP WXftp and LLNL X...

Page 108: ...32bit Redhat Linux 5 and 6 64bit Redhat Linux 6 If you are using Windows XP or Vista you may need to install a Windows update KB907306 If you are using Windows 7 please make sure WebClient service is...

Page 109: ...orp All Rights Reserved 109 U Series User Manual From the Computer icon on Desktop right click on Computer icon and select Map Network Drive When the wizard appears click Connect to a Web site that yo...

Page 110: ...Copyright 1993 2013 Advanced Computer Network Corp All Rights Reserved 110 U Series User Manual Follow the instructions and click Next Select Choose a custom network location and click Next...

Page 111: ...address input put in the WebDAV share in the following syntax http IP address 50000 WebDAV share Please make sure you put in the port number 50000 Put in the required account and password information...

Page 112: ...opyright 1993 2013 Advanced Computer Network Corp All Rights Reserved 112 U Series User Manual Method 2 Using 3rd party WebDAV client application Recommended tools include WebDrive NetDrive or Bitkine...

Page 113: ...step instructions of how to setup Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Please visit Microsoft website for latest iSCSI initiator This example is based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Connect to iSCSI Target...

Page 114: ...l Rights Reserved 114 U Series User Manual 4 It can connect to an iSCSI disk now Setup MPIO 1 If running MPIO please continue 2 Click Discovery tab to connect the second path 3 Click Discover Portal b...

Page 115: ...3 Advanced Computer Network Corp All Rights Reserved 115 U Series User Manual 4 Click OK button 5 Click Targets tab select the second path and then click Connect button 6 Enable multi path checkbox Th...

Page 116: ...erved 116 U Series User Manual 7 Done it can connect to an iSCSI disk with MPIO Setup MC S 1 If running MC S please continue 2 Select one target name click Properties button 3 Click MCS button to add...

Page 117: ...p All Rights Reserved 117 U Series User Manual 6 Select Initiator IP and Target portal IP and then click OK button 7 Click Connect button 8 Click OK button 9 Done Disconnect 1 Select the target name c...

Page 118: ...Copyright 1993 2013 Advanced Computer Network Corp All Rights Reserved 118 U Series User Manual 2 Done the iSCSI device disconnect successfully...

Page 119: ...ber LUN is a unique identifier which enables it to differentiate among separate devices each one is a logical unit GUI Graphic User Interface RO Set the volume to be Read Only DS Dedicated Spare disks...

Page 120: ...Copyright 1993 2013 Advanced Computer Network Corp All Rights Reserved 120 U Series User Manual ports iSNS Internet Storage Name Service...

Page 121: ...s 104 Event Log Filter 58 Event Log Filter 58 Explorer Add Share 84 Attach LUN 84 Auto Shanpshot 84 Create 84 Create folder 84 Delete File System 84 Delete Volume 84 Detach LUN 84 Edit file system 84...

Page 122: ...P Network Time Protocol 47 55 O Overview 51 P PCP Priority Code Point 62 Physical Disk Set Dedicated Spare 63 Set Free Disk 63 Pool Create 65 Delete 65 Expand 65 Set home directory 65 Q JetCentral Cli...

Page 123: ...work Corp All Rights Reserved 123 U Series User Manual V VLAN ID 62 W Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning 91 Web UI Web User Interface 33 WebDAV 91 Change 91 Wizard 46 Z ZFS Auto snapshot 70 Crea...

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