Appliance port on 6248 Fabric Interconnects

[csiddons1]

Is it possible to setup a storage device with a CIFS share on the 6248's through a port defined as an appliance port?  The GUI guide says this:

"Appliance ports are only used to connect fabric interconnects to directly attached NFS storage."

But what would be the difference if it were a CIFS share rather than an NFS mount?

I'm trying to setup a storage unit that does both NFS and CIFS, but the backup software that I want to point to it through the FI's needs to have it as a CIFS share due to being a Windows platform.

Any and all comments welcome.

Thanks,

Chad

[Robert Burns]

iSCSI, CIFS and NFS targets are all valid uses for the appliance port. 

All the appliance port does is allow MAC learning on the interface. 

Regards,

Robert