Article
based on SONAS Version 1.3 and Isilon Version 7.0.1
For large scale NAS systems like SONAS and Isilon it would make sense
for some customers, predominantly service providers, outsourcing companies and
cloud providers to have a system that fully supports multi tenancy. Unfortunately
the term multi tenancy is not standardizes so different people have different understanding
of it. On the networking layer, we would think about separating network traffic
through VLANs or encryption methods while on a server layer we think about different
user roles and permissions etc. On the storage layer we care about data
integrity, privacy, secure data access
and management privileges and others. And this is by far not complete
but should give a little idea that multi tenancy spawns a wider area of the
HW/SW stack.
