After evaluating NAS Bridge and determining that it is appropriate for your storage requirements, you should conduct a thorough technical assessment of the deployment environment. You should organize and record the details of the assessment; this information can be included in a formal deployment plan.
Information to gather during the assessment
You must assess the deployment environment and collect the following information:
- Storage clients
- Number and location of the NFS clients
- Number and location of the SMB clients
- Automatic mounting program (automount daemon commands)
- Estimated amount of client network traffic
- Expected impact on virtual machine performance
- Expected impact on the StorageGRID system
- Location and availability of network services
- Active Directory server
- DNS servers
- NTP servers
- Location of the initial NAS Bridge node and any planned future nodes
- Location of the StorageGRID API Gateway Node and S3 account credentials
Summary of network and storage information
You should include a clear summary of the required network and storage parameters in your deployment plan. You can refer to this information during the installation and configuration process.
You need the following information to install and configure the NAS Bridge:
- Network services to be used
- IP addresses or domain names
- Credentials and other configuration information
- StorageGRID API Gateway Node information
- IP address or domain name
- Port
- S3 account credentials (access and secret keys)
- Additional logical interfaces
- Cache devices
- Size
- Associated hard drive
- Planned file systems
- NFS and list of exports
- SMB and list of shares
- Cache devices for each file system
- Email addresses for alert notifications
- VMware vSphere login credentials
- New administrator user ID (email address) and password