Planning for NFS

You must make a number of decisions before you deploy NFS in an IBM Storage Scale environment. An outline of these decision points is as follows.

The IBM Storage Scale for NFS architecture is shown in Figure 1.

Each IBM Storage Scale protocol node that has an enabled NFS, runs the NFS service, other protocol services (SMB and S3, if enabled), and the IBM Storage Scale client. NFS users make requests through an NFS client to perform an NFS operation on a mounted NFS file system, for example, to read or to write a file. The request is routed to an NFS protocol node. The NFS server on the protocol node handles the request against the backend IBM Storage Scale storage file system. The request completion status is then returned to the user through the NFS client.