Dell PowerScale NAS was designed and developed specifically for storing, managing, and accessing digital content and other unstructured data.
A PowerScale clustered storage system is composed of three or more nodes. Each node is a self-contained, rack-mountable device that contains industry-standard hardware such as disk drives, CPUs, memory, and network interfaces. These nodes are integrated with the proprietary PowerScale OneFS operating system, which is a distributed networked file system that unifies a cluster of nodes into a single shared resource.
Network interface card (NIC) aggregation can be used to reduce the possibility of video loss from a cable pull, NIC failure, or switch port issue. Dell recommends NIC aggregation, also known as link aggregation, in an active/passive failover configuration. This method transmits all data through the master port, which is the first port in the aggregated link. If the master port is unavailable, the next active port in an aggregated link takes over.