Okay, let's pretend you have a lot of toys at home, but you cannot figure out where to put them or how to organize them. You wish you had a big toy chest that could hold everything, but at the same time, you also want to be able to find specific toys quickly and easily.
That's where clustered NAS comes in!
NAS stands for Network Attached Storage, which means a system that stores data and files and can be accessed over a network. It's like having a big box that can hold all your toys, and you can access it from any room in the house.
Now, imagine that you have many big toy boxes in different rooms, and each box contains a different set of toys. This is similar to having multiple NAS systems. Clustered NAS is when you connect all these toy boxes together so that you can access all your toys from one place.
In the same way, a clustered NAS system connects multiple NAS devices together, as if they were one big storage system. This means that you can store all your files in one place and access them from any NAS device in the cluster.
Clustered NAS is like having multiple toy boxes joined together, so you can easily find which box has the toy you want to play with. It keeps all of your toys in one place, making it easier for you to organize and access them.