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Dell Fluid File System

Version 6.0 Support Matrix

Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your product.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the

problem.

WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death.

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Contents

About This Manual............................................................................................................. 5

Revision History..................................................................................................................................................................5

Contacting Dell Support..................................................................................................................................................... 5

1 Introduction..................................................................................................................... 6

Glossary..............................................................................................................................................................................6

2 FluidFS Models and Platforms.........................................................................................7

Storage Center Models.......................................................................................................................................................7

Supported Hardware Upgrades.......................................................................................................................................... 8

1 GbE FC to 10 GbE FC Controller Upgrade..................................................................................................................8

24-GB and 48-GB Appliances.......................................................................................................................................8

Appliance Replacement................................................................................................................................................ 8

System Expansion (Adding Appliance)..........................................................................................................................8

3 Software Update Path.....................................................................................................9

4 FluidFS File-System Metrics...........................................................................................11

5 Client Network Capabilities............................................................................................12

6 Customer Environment Management Protocols............................................................. 13

Identity Management Servers........................................................................................................................................... 13

Maximum Identity, DNS, and Time Servers....................................................................................................................... 13

7 SMB Support................................................................................................................. 14

Supported SMB Congurations.........................................................................................................................................14

8 NFS Support................................................................................................................. 15

9 FTP Support..................................................................................................................16

10 User and Group Quotas................................................................................................ 17

11 FluidFS Replication....................................................................................................... 18

12 VMware and the FluidFS VAAI Plugin........................................................................... 19

13 Integration with 3rd Party Products.............................................................................20

Antivirus Support............................................................................................................................................................. 20

Backup and Restore – NDMP.......................................................................................................................................... 20

File Access Notication (Governance).............................................................................................................................. 21

14 Space Pre-Allocation................................................................................................... 22

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15 Services and Ports.......................................................................................................23

16 Management................................................................................................................25

Events..............................................................................................................................................................................25

Multitenancy.................................................................................................................................................................... 25

SNMP.............................................................................................................................................................................. 25

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About This Manual

This document provides information about supported software and hardware congurations as well as usage requirements and

recommendations for Dell FluidFS v6.x products.

This document is valid as of FluidFS version 6.0.110054.

Revision History

Document Number: 680-116-002

Revision Date Changes from previous revision

A February 2017 Initial release of FluidFS v6.0

B March 2017 • Added ports 3033 and 9445

• Updated supported NDMP applications

• Minimum SC version updated to 6.5.3

C July 2017 • Level-based backups for EMC Networker

• Dell Storage Manager 2016 R3.1

Contacting Dell Support

Dell Technical Support is available to answer your questions about FluidFS and FS8600 systems.

• For technical support, email the Copilot team at support@compellent.com or see the Copilot support page for direct phone

access. Have your HSN/SSN number, case number, or service tag available to validate support coverage.

• If you have an Express Service Code, have it ready. The code helps the Dell automated support telephone system direct your call

more eciently.

About This Manual 5

1

Introduction

FluidFS version 6.0.110054 supports FS8600 systems.

Glossary

The following table denes the terms used in this document.

Table 1. Glossary of Terms

Term Denition

FluidFS (FluidFS rmware) A special-purpose, Dell-proprietary operating system providing enterprise-class NAS

services using SAN storage systems

FluidFS controller A Dell hardware device capable of running the FluidFS rmware

NAS (FluidFS) appliance A Dell hardware product containing two FluidFS controllers in a single enclosure

FluidFS system / cluster Multiple FluidFS controllers appropriately connected and congured together into a single

functional unit

NAS pool The Storage Center system LUNs (and their aggregate size) allocated and provisioned to a

FluidFS system

NAS volume File system (single-rooted directory/folder and le hierarchy), dened using FluidFS

management functions over a portion of the NAS pool

SMB share A le system sub-hierarchy available to SMB clients via the SMB protocol

NFS export A le system sub-hierarchy available to NFS clients via the NFS protocol

6Introduction

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FluidFS Models and Platforms

The tables in this section list the platforms, features, and congurations supported by the Storage Center systems.

Storage Center Models

The following table lists the supported platforms and congurations.

Table 2. Supported Platforms and Congurations

Feature FS8600 FC FS8600 iSCSI

Client interface and speed 1GbE 10GbE 10GbE

Memory per controller (GB) 24 24 or 48 24 or 48

Client ports – per appliance 8 4 4

SAN storage interface and speed FC 8Gb iSCSI 10GbE

SAN ports – per appliance 4 4

Ethernet network port type RJ45 SFP+ (Intel modules only)

Storage Center version 6.5.3 or later

Dell Storage Manager version 2016 R3.1 or later

Storage Center models SCv2080, SC40, SC4020, SC7020, SC8000, SC9000

Maximum NAS appliances (per system) 4 appliances (8 controllers)

Maximum Storage Center systems in a NAS pool 8

Maximum NAS pool size 4 PB

NOTE:

• Dell recommends running the latest supported Storage Center Operating System version for each connected Storage

Center. See the Storage Center documentation for the latest version information.

The following table lists the maximum sizes supported in the NAS pool and the global namespace. Note that the actual limits per

Storage Center system depend on the Storage Center models, congurations, and rmware versions.

Table 3. Maximum NAS Pool Size

Feature Maximum Size

Per Storage Center 3 PB (depends on Storage Center model)

NAS pool capacity 4 PB

FluidFS global namespace 20 PB

NOTE: The total capacity of the NAS pool is 4 PB. The global namespace can reach 20 PB with ve FluidFS clusters

using redirection folders.

FluidFS Models and Platforms 7

Supported Hardware Upgrades

The following sections provide information about hardware upgrades.

1 GbE FC to 10 GbE FC Controller Upgrade

FS8600 1 GbE FC congurations can be upgraded to 10 GbE FC by replacing the network interface cards (NICs). Contact Dell

Technical Support for details about this upgrade.

24-GB and 48-GB Appliances

The 48-GB FS8600 appliance supports 48-GB controllers only. The 24-GB FS8600 appliance supports 24-GB and 48-GB

controllers; however, 48-GB controllers in a 24-GB appliance are limited to 24 GB.

Appliance Replacement

A 24-GB FS8600 appliance can be replaced with a 24-GB or 48-GB appliance.

A 48-GBFS8600 appliance can be replaced with a 48-GB appliance only.

NOTE: All appliances in the system must be equal in terms of client connectivity type (1 GbE or 10 GbE), storage

connectivity type (FC or iSCSI), and port count.

System Expansion (Adding Appliance)

A 24-GB FS8600 FluidFS system can be expanded by adding either a 24-GB or 48-GB appliance. If there system includes a 48-GB

FS8600 appliance, the system can be expanded by adding a 48-GB appliance only.

All appliances in the system must have the same client connectivity type (1 GbE or 10 GbE), storage connectivity type (FC or iSCSI),

and port count.

8FluidFS Models and Platforms

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Software Update Path

The following table lists the supported update paths for FS8600 systems, following the release of version 6.0.110054.

Table 4. Supported Update Paths

Current (Base) Version Next Supported Version

2.0.5110 or 2.0.5120 2.0.7680

2.0.6110 2.0.7680

2.0.6730 2.0.7680 or 3.0.920760

2.0.6940 2.0.7680

2.0.7040 2.0.7680

2.0.7170 2.0.7680 or 3.0.920760

2.0.7630 3.0.920760 or 3.0.940120

2.0.7680 3.0.920760 or 3.0.940120

3.0.8690 3.0.920760 or 3.0.940120

# 3.0.8700 or 3.0.8701 3.0.920760

3.0.910390 3.0.920760

3.0.911021 3.0.920760 or 3.0.940120

3.0.920760 3.0.940120 or 4.0.300098

# 3.0.921013 or 3.0.922022 3.0.930714

3.0.930714 3.0.940120

3.0.940120 4.0.300098

# 3.0.941005 or 3.0.942004 4.0.300098

4.0.003214 4.0.300098

4.0.100714 4.0.300098

# 4.0.110064 or 4.0.120016 4.0.210020

4.0.200700 4.0.300098

4.0.210020 5.0.400014

# 4.0.220058 4.0.230030 or 5.0.400014

4.0.230030 5.0.400014

4.0.300098 5.0.400014

5.0.002821 5.0.400014

5.0.100128 5.0.400014

Software Update Path 9

Current (Base) Version Next Supported Version

5.0.200081 6.0.003169

5.0.300109 6.0.003169

5.0.400014 6.0.110054

# 6.0.003162 6.0.110054

6.0.003169 6.0.110054

# - Limited availability version. If you are running one of these versions, contact Dell Technical Support for assistance in updating

your FluidFS system.

NOTE: Before updating, ensure that the SAN storage rmware version supports the target FluidFS version as specied in

Table 4. Supported Update Paths.

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FluidFS File-System Metrics

The following tables list the maximum supported congurations.

NOTE: The system does not always prevent you from or warn you about exceeding these numbers.

Table 5. FluidFS System Metrics

Feature Maximum per FluidFS System

NAS volumes 1024

Cloned volumes from a volume 1000

Files and/or directories 10 billion

Files in a directory 1,000,000

Directory depth levels 1000

Open les (per appliance) 250,000 (24-GB appliance) / 800,000 (48-GB appliance)

File size 128 TB

Number of local ACLs 180 per le

Cloned les from single le 1,048,576

Minimum le size for le cloning 4 KB

Minimum le size for data reduction 64 KB

Snapshot creation/expiration rate 300 per hour

Number of local users 1000

Number of local groups 1000

Maximum number of ADS entries per le 5000

Maximum number of le-access notication policies 1024

Table 6. FluidFS NAS Volume Metrics

Feature Maximum per NAS Volume / System

NAS volume size Available NAS pool (minimum 20 MB)

Snapshots 10,000 / 100,000

Snapshot schedules 1024 / 1024

Redirection folders 1024 / 1024

FluidFS File-System Metrics 11

5

Client Network Capabilities

The following table lists the supported subnets and VLANs.

Table 7. Supported Subnets and VLANs

Feature Maximum

Subnets / VLANs 400

VIPs per system 400

Static routes 400

Flat (non-routed) clients 1000

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Customer Environment Management Protocols

The following tables list the supported levels for identity management servers and interfaces.

Identity Management Servers

Table 8. Identity Management Servers

Functionality Service Provider Supported Functionality

Active Directory / Native Microsoft AD

Windows 2003 / 2008R2 / 2012R2

Directory service

Kerberos5 authentication

Domain trusts

Active Directory / LDAP Microsoft AD

Windows 2003 / 2008R2 / 2012R2

Directory service

Kerberos5 authentication

Active Directory Samba Not supported

OpenLDAP / LDAP OpenLDAP Directory service

NIS2 Linux / UNIX Directory service

NIS3 (NIS+) Any Not supported

NOTE: Authenticated bind to an LDAP server requires Domain or OU Administrator credentials and must be allowed by

the LDAP server.

Maximum Identity, DNS, and Time Servers

Table 9. Maximum Identity, DNS, and Time Servers

Functionality Service Provider Maximum Servers

Active Directory preferred

controller

Microsoft AD

Windows 2003 / 2008R2 / 2012R2

10

LDAP / NIS server Any Linux or UNIX server 10

DNS server Any 10

NTP server Any 10

Customer Environment Management Protocols 13

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SMB Support

FluidFS version 6 supports SMB1, SMB2, SMB2.1, SMB3, and SMB3.1 protocols.

NOTE:

• Lower-than-maximum SMB level connections are also supported.

• Setting ACL from Linux SMB clients is not supported.

Supported SMB Congurations

Each appliance can support a certain number of concurrent (active) SMB connections, even if one of the controllers is not available.

The following table lists the supported SMB congurations.

Table 10. Supported SMB Congurations

Feature Maximum Value

SMB share name 80 bytes1

SMB shares 1024 per volume / 1024 per system

Concurrent connections 10,000 per 24-GB appliance /

30,000 per 48-GB FS8600 appliance

Concurrent active connections 5000 per appliance

Large MTU (up to 256 KB) connections 50 per 24-GB controller /

Unlimited per 48-GB FS8600 controller

Maximum le size for branch cache hash calculations 256 MB

1 Share names are kept as UTF-8 characters, which might, depending on the character set used, consume multiple bytes. Therefore,

the actual maximum length depends on the character set used.

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NFS Support

FluidFS version 6.x supports NFSv3, NFSv4, and NFSv4.1 protocols only. NFSv2 clients are not supported.

NOTE:

• Lower-than-maximum NFS level connections are also supported.

• For NFSv4 clients, only Active Directory authentication is currently supported.

• For NFSv4 clients, AUTH_SYS, Krb5, Krb5i, and Krb5p modes are supported.

Table 11. Supported NFS Congurations

Client OS Maximum per NAS Volume / System

NFS exports 1024 / 1024

NFS ACLs per export 100

NFS connections (per appliance) 16,000

NFS Support 15

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FTP Support

FluidFS version 6.x supports both anonymous FTP congurations (user name=anonymous, password=email_address), and

authenticated FTP congurations (with either a single landing directory, or a home-folders structure with a directory per

authenticated user).

Each appliance can support the following number of concurrent (active) FTP connections, even if one of the nodes or controllers is

not available.

Table 12. Supported FTP Congurations

Feature Maximum Value

Concurrent FTP connections 800 per appliance

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User and Group Quotas

The following table lists the maximum number of supported quota rules per NAS volume for each system.

Table 13. Supported Quota Congurations

Feature Maximum per System

Quota rules 1024

Quota usage entries 100,000

Quota directories 30,000

NOTE:

• Quotas for Active Directory (AD) and NIS/LDAP users are independent of each other, even if users are mapped

automatically or manually. For NAS volumes with mixed security styles, separate quotas should be set for AD and NIS/

LDAP users.

• For NAS volumes with NTFS or UNIX style permissions, one unique quota should be set for each user. For mapped users,

the usage and limits are applied using the target identity and are shared with the native Windows or UNIX account.

• In general, Dell recommends using the NTFS security style in mixed environments.

User and Group Quotas 17

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FluidFS Replication

Note the following information regarding FluidFS replication:

• Replication can be performed from FluidFS v5.x to FluidFS v6.x. As a best practice, replication between systems running

dierent major versions should be performed only for short-term update scenarios and is not recommended as a normal

operating state.

• Replication partners can dier in network interface speeds (1 GB or 10 GB) or in memory size (24 GB or 48 GB).

The following table lists replication-compatible systems, assuming they satisfy all other conditions.

Table 14. Supported FluidFS Replication Features

Attribute Support

Maximum number of replication partners 100

Maximum number of replicated NAS volumes 1024

Maximum number of concurrent replications (rest are queued) 10 outgoing and 100 incoming

Maximum replication schedules (as source) 1024

Maximum number of replication bandwidth limiter policies 100

Single NAS volume to multiple NAS volumes Up to 10 targets per source

Cascading replication of a NAS volume Up to a depth of 5

FluidFS replication requires that the target-system TCP ports listed in Table 15. FluidFS Replication TCP Ports be accessible, through

any rewall, from the source system.

The following table lists the supported FluidFS replication TCP ports.

Table 15. FluidFS Replication TCP Ports

Functionality Port Numbers

Partnership setup 9445

Management

10560 or 3260 (congured during partnership setup)

Data

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VMware and the FluidFS VAAI Plugin

The FluidFS VAAI plugin supports the following VAAI NAS Primitives and allows ooading them to the underlying FluidFS system:

•Full File Clone — Ooads the creation of a virtual disk full clone

•Fast File Clone (Native Snapshot) — Ooads the creation of virtual machine snapshots

•Extended Statistics — Enables visibility into space usage on FluidFS datastores

The FluidFS VAAI plugin supports ESXi versions 6 and 6.5 (NFS3 only).

NOTE: The FluidFS VAAI NAS plugin supports single-level native snapshots only.

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Integration with 3rd Party Products

Antivirus Support

The following table lists the supported antivirus applications.

Table 16. Antivirus Application Support

Vendor Product

Symantec Protection Engine for NAS 7.5, 7.8

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Storage 1.1.0

TrendMicro InterScan Web Security Virtual Appliance (IWSVA) 6.x

Kaspersky Antivirus 8.0 for Windows Servers Enterprise Edition

Kaspersky Security for Windows Server 10

The following table lists the maximum number of supported antivirus server congurations.

Table 17. Maximum Antivirus Server Congurations per System

Feature Maximum Value per FS8600 System

Antivirus servers 10

Backup and Restore – NDMP

The following table lists the supported backup and restore applications.

Table 18. Backup and Restore Applications

Application Supported Version 3-Way NDMP Support

CommVault Simpana 11 Yes

EMC Networker 9 Yes*

Veritas BackupExec 2016 Yes

Veritas NetBackup 7.7 Yes

* Level-based incremental backups are supported from the EMC Networker CLI. Token-based backups are not supported.

Refer to the application documentation for the minimal revision/service pack supporting Dell FluidFS systems.

The following table lists the NDMP agent characteristics. Refer to the application documentation for the minimum revision/service

pack supporting Dell FluidFS systems.

20 Integration with 3rd Party Products

Table 19. NDMP Agent Characteristics

Functionality Supported Range

NDMP version v2, v3, v4

DMA address type IPv4 only

DMA servers congured Up to 10

Concurrent NDMP sessions Up to 10

DMA user-name length 1–63 bytes (accepts Unicode)

DMA password length 1–32 characters

Maximum number of include paths for an NDMP job 32

Maximum number of exclude paths for an NDMP job 32

NOTE: Your environment should allow ICMP (ping) trac between the FluidFS controllers’ private IP addresses (not the

access VIPs) and the backup server.

File Access Notication (Governance)

The following table lists the supported governance applications.

Table 20. Governance Applications

Application Supported Version

Varonis DatAdvantage 6.3

Integration with 3rd Party Products 21

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Space Pre-Allocation

The following tables provide an estimation of the pre-allocated (reserved) space for various le-system functions. These calculations

can help you estimate disk space requirements and space growth of FluidFS systems.

Table 21. Reserved Space by Function

Allocation per Reserved space

Cluster 10.4 GB

Appliance 345.5 GB

LUN 4 GB

Data Reduction 0.012% of total space, minimum 16 GB, maximum 256 GB

Total space 0.5%

The amount of reserved space can also be estimated using the following table.

Table 22. Reserved Space by Pool Size

NAS Pool Size Percentage of Reserved Space

10 TB – 20 TB 2.5% – 4.5%

20 TB – 128 TB 1% – 2.5%

> 128 TB < 1 %

22 Space Pre-Allocation

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Services and Ports

FluidFS systems provide and access services through the ports listed in the following tables. Firewall settings should allow

communication to and from these ports. Actual ports used depend on the enabled protocols and features. All port numbers are xed

unless specied otherwise.

The services and ports listed in the following tables are accessed by FluidFS systems on the client network.

Table 23. Services Provided by FluidFS

Port Number Protocol Function / Service Name

21 TCP and UDP File Transfer Protocol (FTP/FTPS)

22 TCP Support Access (SSH)

111 TCP and UDP RPC portmapper

161 UDP SNMP agent

162 UDP SNMP trap

427 TCP and UDP Server Location Protocol (SLP)

445 TCP and UDP SMB

2049 – 2057 TCP and UDP NFS

4000 – 4007 TCP and UDP NFS statd

4050 – 4057 TCP and UDP Network lock manager (NLM )

5001 – 5008 TCP and UDP NFS mount

5051 – 5058 TCP and UDP NFS quota

9445 TCP Replication partnership setup

10000 TCP Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP)

10560 or 3260 TCP Replication

13033 and 3033 TCP Dell Storage Manager communications

44421 TCP File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

44430 – 44439 TCP Passive FTP/ FTPS

Table 24. Services Accessed by FluidFS

Port Number Protocol Function / Service Name

53 TCP Domain Name Service (DNS)

88 TCP and UDP Kerberos

111 TCP and UDP RPC portmapper

123 UDP Network Time Protocol (NTP)

Services and Ports 23

Port Number Protocol Function / Service Name

135 TCP Active Directory

138 UDP NetBIOS datagram service

139 TCP NetBIOS session service

389 TCP and UDP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

464 TCP and UDP Kerberos

543 TCP Kerberos login

544 TCP Kerberos shell

RPC/portmapper dependent UDP Network Information Service (NIS)

636 TCP and UDP LDAP over TLS/SSL

749 TCP and UDP Kerberos administration

9445 TCP Replication partnership setup

1344 TCP Antivirus – Internet Content Adaptation Protocol

(ICAP)

3268 TCP LDAP global catalog

3269 TCP LDAP global catalog over TLS/SSL

8443 TCP Copilot access (reverse tunnel SSH)

10000 TCP Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP)

24 Services and Ports

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Management

This section provides management information for FluidFS systems.

Events

FluidFS can store up to 10 million system and SACL events. The actual amount depends on the amount of storage space congured

by the administrator to hold event data.

Multitenancy

FluidFS v6 supports multiple tenants. The following table species the limits relating to multitenancy, if the feature is enabled on the

system.

Table 25. Multitenancy

Feature Maximum Supported

Number of tenants per FluidFS system 100

Local users per tenant 100

Local groups per tenant 100

VIPs per subnet per tenant 16 (but not more than 400 VIPs per system)

SNMP

FluidFS supports SNMP version 2c and version 3. It also provides a custom MIB for integration with SNMP-based management

frameworks. The interface/MIB provides read access to the following data:

• System and controller status

• CPU utilization

• I/O statistics

• NFS statistics

The maximum number of SNMP recipients per system is 10.

Management 25