NAS glossary

Available in Classic and VPC

There are a few terms you need to know to use NAS. The terms and their descriptions are as follows.

Classic environment

A platform that does not provide VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), a customer-only private network, on public cloud

Common Internet File System (CIFS)

The extended version of the SMB protocol to share files on the network, which is a standard internet file protocol that supports both the Windows and Unix environments.

Network File System (NFS)

A network distributed file system protocol that enables the Linux server to mount and use some of the file systems on another host.

Sub Account

A NAVER Cloud Platform service that creates sub accounts under a main account to enable permission management by job role

User Created

Policies arbitrarily created by account users on Sub Account of NAVER Cloud Platform

VPC environment

A platform that provides VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), a customer-only private network, on public cloud

Network-Attached Storage (NAS)

A NAVER Cloud Platform service that provides storage that can be used by multiple servers connected via network

Mount

Creating a path to access a storage device and registering the storage device in the directory system that can be used by the operating system.

Snapshot

Feature that can store storage data of a certain point as if taking a snapshot, and recover it in a new disk format when the stored data is required. Using storage snapshot, you can always recover data from when it was saved to a desired server.

Access Control Group (ACG)

A NAVER Cloud Platform service that manages network access to the server using filters based on IP address and port number

Access Control List (ACL)

ist of records of subjects with access to specific objects of buckets approved, as well as items of which the subjects gained access to

Port Forwarding

A function of forwarding the communication request toward a specific IP address and port number to another IP address and port, which is used when creating a service for the host residing in the internal network (mapping the destination IP address and port number to the internal host).