Managing Volumes
Volumes are logical partitions on your gateway that users can access. You can create two types of volumes:
Network Attached Storage (NAS)A NAS volume is formatted with a file system. The gateway acts as a files server for NAS volumes, and the files on such volumes can be accessed using any of the gateway-supported file sharing protocols.
For gateways running versions prior to version 6.0.696.26, the gateway enables you to take snapshots of NAS volumes. For more information, see Volume Snapshots.
Storage Area Network (SAN)A SAN volume (also called Raw) is an unformatted volume. The gateway cannot read files on SAN volumes, and therefore file sharing, synchronization, and cloud backup cannot be used with such volumes. In order to access a SAN volume, you must create an iSCSI target for the volume. The SAN volume will then appear as if it were a physical disk on your PC or server and can be formatted remotely.
You must create an array before creating volumes for a gateway.