DS14MKII-FC to FAS250, licensing and adding external shelf

GerarCR — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:57:22 GMT

Hi everyone,

We have a FAS250 as an spare part in our warehouse, and we are about to receive two old DS14MKII-FC.

We are considering to take some benefit from this and set up a filer for a test environment. We have two doubts about this:

- CIFS/NFS Licensing: what can we do about this? does the FAS250 controllers come with its own license? (it is unboxed in our warehouse)

-In case we manage to setup a filer with the FAS250 controller + DS14MKII, can we add the other DS14MKII as an external disk shelf?

Thanks in advanced and best regards,

Gerar

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