1 installing rapid cifs (rdcifs), 1 prerequisites, 2 steps for installing rapid cifs – Dell PowerVault DR6000 User Manual

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Installing Dell DR6000 Rapid CIFS and Rapid NFS on Windows and Linux Client Machines | January 2014

Installing Rapid CIFS (RDCIFS)

1.1

Prerequisites

• The client OS must be the 64-bit version of Windows 2008 R2 or Windows 2012.
• The DR container share must be mapped on the client machine.
• Only DR6000 supports the CIFS accelerator (RDCIFS).

1.2

Steps for installing Rapid CIFS

1. Download the MSI to the client box using the following steps:

a. On the client Windows machine, launch the DR Series system GUI management interface

through a web browser.

b. Log in and click Storage-> Clients -> any client tab (NFS/CIFS/RDA) -> Download Plug-In.
c. Choose Rapid CIFS Windows (64-bit) to download the .msi package to your local computer.