PowerScale: Home Directory Storage Solutions for NFS and SMB Environments

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  Introduction
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  Assumptions about home directories
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  Audience
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  Revisions
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  We value your feedback

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  Introduction
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  File sharing on a PowerScale storage cluster
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  Authentication providers and access management

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  Introduction
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  Home-directory usage profiles
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  Sizing guidance for storage capacity
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  Capacity planning considerations
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  Capacity planning best practices

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  Introduction
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  File-services protocol differences
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  Total vs. active user connections
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  Planning for disk-pool performance and management
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  File-pool management
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  Considerations and guidelines for file-pool management
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  Best practices recommendation for file-pool management

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  Introduction
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  SmartConnect overview
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  Using SmartConnect to manage client connections
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  SmartConnect considerations and guidelines
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  Best practices recommendations for SmartConnect management

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  Conclusion

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  Appendix: Technical support and resources