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Dell ECS is a cloud-scale, object-storage platform for traditional, archival, and next-generation workloads. It provides geo-distributed and multi-protocol (object, HDFS, and NFS) access to data. An ECS deployment offers a turnkey appliance with industry-standard hardware that you can use to form the hardware infrastructure. In either type of deployment, a network infrastructure is required for the interconnection between the nodes and customer environments for object storage access.
This paper describes ECS networking and provides configuration best practices. It provides details about ECS network hardware, network configurations, and network separation. This paper should be used as an adjunct to the following Dell ECS documentation on the Dell Technologies ECS Info Hub:
Updates to this document are completed periodically and often coincide with new features and functionality changes.