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The VTrak G1000 NAS Gateway enables NAS connectivity to the VTrak A-Class SAN. It is the physical and
logical bridge between the Fibre Channel SAN of the VTrak A-Class managed storage and the NAS clients
connected to the Ethernet LAN. The VTrak A-Class head unit must connect to the NAS Gateway through the
1G LAN ports in order to create the metadata network used for storage management. This is referred to as the
Management network or Management link in this document.
The data path from the NAS Gateway to the NAS clients can run on the 10G LAN ports, on the 1G LAN ports,
or on both 1G and 10G LAN ports. How the cabling is arranged depends on which Link Aggregation option
will be used for the 1G ports.
See “1G LAN Port Link Aggregation options” on page 17 for details.
For 1G
LAN NAS Client setup especially, careful planning is needed for the cabling arrangement. For simplicity, the
connection to the NAS clients on either the 1G or 10G Ethernet will be referred to as the NAS Client network or
NAS Client link.
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