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Before file systems on a Unified PowerStore appliance are configured, you must create a NAS server. A NAS server is a virtualized network-attached storage server that uses SMB, NFS, FTP, or SFTP protocols to catalog, organize, and transfer files within file-system shares and exports. A NAS server, the basis for multitenancy, must be created before you can create file-level storage resources. A NAS server is responsible for the configuration parameters on the set of file systems that it serves. To create, view, manage, or delete NAS servers, use the Storage > NAS Servers page in PowerStore Manager, as shown in Figure 25.
Common Anti-Virus Agent (CAVA) enables third party software to identify and eliminate known viruses before they infect files on SMB shares. PowerStoreOS versions 4.0 and later allow users to manage and configure CAVA directly through PowerStore Manager, CLI, and REST API without any third-party tools.