IBM supports
several network-attached storage (NAS) devices that can be configured to host
VOB or view storage and provide native file system access to computers running
any supported operating system, without the need to install any other software
on Rational® ClearCase® client
or server hosts.
For more information, see Rational ClearCase and network-attached storage devices.
In addition to these NAS devices,
IBM supports
two categories of vendor software cross-platform file-access tools for use
with
Rational ClearCase:
- SMB servers for platforms running Linux or the UNIX system, which provide Windows® clients
with native SMB/CIFS access to file systems on hosts running Linux or the UNIX system.
- NFS client programs for Windows, which enable Windows clients
to use the NFS protocol to access the file systems of computers running Linux or
the UNIX system.
Any of these tools can be used to enable a dynamic view on a Windows computer
to access a VOB hosted on a computer running Linux or the UNIX system and to enable a Windows computer
to use shared dynamic views hosted on computers running Linux or the UNIX system.
For more information about supported cross-platform file system access
tools, see Configuring cross-platform file-system access.