Most storage environments force a choice: keep data in a file system for traditional workloads, or copy it into an object store for cloud-native and analytics tools, and then maintain both. VAST eliminates that tradeoff. In this hands-on lab, you'll work with a single namespace that serves NFS and S3 simultaneously, with no replication or syncing required to move between them. You'll also explore how access control works across protocols, including when to rely on ACLs versus IAM style policies, giving you a repeatable pattern for serving mixed workloads from one unified dataset.