From the course: Introduction to SAN and NAS Storage
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NFS: Overview and configuration
From the course: Introduction to SAN and NAS Storage
NFS: Overview and configuration
- In this lecture, you'll learn about NFS, the Network File System. I'll quickly explain the characteristics of NFS, and then move on, show you how to configure it on your storage system, and we'll also connect to it and use it from our client. (upbeat electronic music) So, NFS is the Network File System. It's another NAS network attached storage protocol just like SMB and CIFS that we covered in the last lecture. NFS was originally developed by Sun Microsystems for Unix based clients, so, it's also very popular, of course, with Linux environments, and another place you'll see it very commonly being used is for VMFS Datastores in a Vmware environment. It's not just for Linux and Vmware, though. Windows based clients can also access NFS exports just like your Linux clients can access our SMB and our CIFS shares. With NFS, servers export, and clients mount the export. So, an export in NFS is equivalent to a share in SMB, and the clients mount the export where they would map the network…
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