Shares And Luns; Manage Shares For Network Attached Storage; About Shares - NETGEAR ReadyDATA 5200 Software Manual

Shares and LUNs

The volumes on your ReadyDATA 5200 can be divided into shares and logical unit numbers
(LUNs), both of which are logical entities on one or more disks.
• Shares. Shares are NAS data sets that allow data transfer and storage over SMB, NFS,
AFP, and FTP. (For general information about these protocols, see
File-Sharing Protocols
Figure 5. Share icon
• LUNs. LUNs are SAN data sets that allow data transfer and storage over iSCSI and Fiber
Channel devices. The ReadyDATA 5200 supports iSCSI devices only. Dashboard
displays LUNs in the following way:
Figure 6. LUN icon
Shares and LUNs enable you to organize data in a volume by type, group, user, department,
and so on. Within one volume, you can create multiple shares and LUNs, each one with its
own specific configuration.
This chapter explains the configuration and use of shares and LUNs in detail.

Manage Shares For Network Attached Storage

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About Shares

• Create a Share
• View and Change the Properties of a Share
• Migrate a Share to Another Volume
• Delete a Share
About Shares
Each share has a configuration that is independent of other shares that reside on the same
volume. A share configuration includes settings such as logbias, compression, deduplication
(referred to as dedupe), protection, file-sharing protocols, and access rights. These settings
are explained in the following sections.
ReadyDATA OS 1.2
on page 63). Dashboard displays shares in the following way:
Manage Shares and LUNs
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Configure Global