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marksie1988

2 networks 1 NAS

Post by marksie1988 »

Hi Guys,

im new here so please be nice :P

at my work we have 2 networks 1 is for our office staff/sales floor and the other is for our data center, both networks are totally seperate the office has an ntl business internet connection and the data center a leased line.

we have recently noticed that our blade server that we use for our office is getting rather full and we need to move the data to an other storage place all our servers are running server 2008.

on our data center lan we have a nas that is 16tb so obviously the directors sugested using some of this storage for out server, the issue i have though is that these are 2 seperate networks so getting the nas to work on both may be tricky.

the reason for 2 seperate networks is so that the office users arent using the leased line and that it is free for the data center to use, is it possible with a dell Equalogic to plug one of its 3 network sockets into a different network to the main network card or will this not work? if not can you think of any other way that we can use the storage of the nas without the office staff being able to access the leased line internet?

hope you can help
Steve

P.s, the office uses a cyberoam UTM on local ip range 192.168.4.x 255.255.255.0 and the data center uses a draytek vigor router soon to be upgraded to a cisco ASA5520 150.150.0.x 255.255.248.0.
bilbus
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Post by bilbus »

When you say nas, my gues sis you mean san right?

Does each network have it's own internet conenction?

Are both networks local?

If yes

Then just hook up the two networks, makea ACL that blocks access between them for everyone but one vlan or ip
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