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The following terms are used in this paper.
Appliance: A PowerStore solution containing a base enclosure and attached expansion enclosures. The size of an appliance could include only the base enclosure or the base enclosure plus expansion enclosures.
Base enclosure: The PowerStore enclosure containing both nodes (node A and node B) and the NVMe drive slots.
Cluster: One or more PowerStore appliances in a single grouping. Clusters are expandable by adding more appliances (up to four total).
Expansion enclosure: A disk enclosure that can be attached to a PowerStore base enclosure to provide 25 additional drive slots.
File system: Allows PowerStore to provide file-level access to end users and applications. It also controls user permissions to files, and folders or directories.
NAS server: Network-attached storage (NAS) servers allow block storage to be used for file storage. The NAS service translates file requests to block storage. NAS supports Microsoft Windows SMB 3.1.1 and NFS v3 or v4.
Node: The PowerStore component within the base enclosure that contains processors and memory. Each appliance consists of two nodes.
PowerStore Manager: The HMTL5 web-based user interface (UI) for PowerStore storage management.
Storage volumes: PowerStore volumes that use block storage.