NAS servers can be used to enforce multitenancy, and are useful when a single system hosts multiple tenants such as service providers. Since each NAS server has its own independent configuration, it can be tailored to the requirements of each tenant without impacting the other NAS servers on the same appliance. Also, each NAS server is logically separated from each other, and clients that have access to one NAS server do not inherently have access to the file systems on the other NAS servers. File systems are assigned to a NAS server upon creation and cannot be moved between NAS servers.
Multi-tenancy can also be enforced on the front-end ports. Each NAS server can have its interface created on a different bond. The ports for these bonds can also be connected to different switches if desired. This enables the network ports to be isolated from each other and dedicated to each tenant. There is no traffic sharing and the full performance capabilities of the port can be made available.
