Veritas Access Online Help

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Product(s): Access (7.4.2)
Platform: Linux
  1. Getting started
    1.  
      About Veritas Access
    2.  
      Enabling certificate-based authentication in Veritas Access
    3. About the dashboard
      1.  
        Viewing the IOPS details for all the file systems
      2.  
        Viewing the throughput details for all the file systems
      3.  
        Viewing the latency details for all the file systems
      4.  
        About the Quick Actions
    4.  
      Setting up the storage type for provisioning
    5. About the CIFS shares
      1.  
        Creating a CIFS share with continuous replication
      2.  
        Creating a CIFS share with episodic replication
      3.  
        Creating a CIFS share with encryption
      4.  
        Creating a CIFS share with episodic replication and encryption
      5.  
        Creating a CIFS share without replication and encryption
    6. About managing CIFS shares for Enterprise Vault
      1.  
        Creating a CIFS share for Enterprise Vault with replication
      2.  
        Creating a CIFS share for Enterprise Vault without replication
    7. About the NFS shares
      1.  
        Creating an NFS share with continuous replication
      2.  
        Creating an NFS share with episodic replication
      3.  
        Creating an NFS share with encryption
      4.  
        Creating an NFS share with episodic replication and encryption
      5.  
        Creating an NFS share without replication and encryption
    8.  
      About an iSCSI target
    9.  
      Creating an iSCSI target and provisioning LUNs
    10. About S3 buckets for NetBackup
      1.  
        Creating an S3 bucket for NetBackup without a cloud tier
      2.  
        Creating an S3 bucket for NetBackup with a cloud tier
    11.  
      Using the Veritas Access product documentation
    12.  
      Changing your password
    13.  
      Important release information
  2. Managing storage
    1. About storage provisioning and management
      1.  
        Adding disks to a storage pool
      2.  
        Removing disks from a storage pool
      3.  
        Removing disks from a cluster
      4.  
        Viewing information about disks
      5.  
        Accessing disk details
      6.  
        Adding or removing a node
      7.  
        Viewing information about a node in a cluster
      8.  
        Accessing node details
      9.  
        Configuring a disk
      10.  
        Increasing the size of a disk
      11.  
        Running scanbus
      12.  
        Formatting a disk
      13.  
        Marking a disk as spare
      14. About SmartIO for solid-state drives
        1.  
          About SmartIO read caching for applications running on Veritas Access file systems
        2.  
          About SmartIO writeback caching for applications running on Veritas Access file systems
  3. Managing file sharing services
    1.  
      About using the NFS server with Veritas Access
    2.  
      About configuring Veritas Access for CIFS
    3.  
      About the Object Store server
  4. Monitoring and troubleshooting
    1.  
      About troubleshooting
    2.  
      Monitoring command activity
    3.  
      Monitoring alerts
    4.  
      Monitoring events
    5.  
      Viewing reports
    6.  
      Viewing cluster storage usage
    7.  
      Viewing file system usage
    8.  
      Running a full discovery
  5. Provisioning and managing file systems
    1.  
      About scale-out file systems
    2.  
      Generating the long-term data retention script
    3. Creating a file system
      1.  
        Viewing the list of file systems
      2.  
        Viewing file system performance
      3.  
        Accessing file system details
      4.  
        Modifying a file system
      5.  
        Choosing a file system layout type
      6.  
        Setting up a file system online or offline
      7.  
        Deleting a file system
    4.  
      Setting the maximum IOPS
    5.  
      Creating a snapshot
    6.  
      Restoring a snapshot
    7. Configuring a replication job
      1.  
        Stopping or starting a replication job for VVR
      2.  
        Pausing and resuming a replication job for VVR
      3.  
        Enabling or disabling a replication job for VFR
      4.  
        Synchronizing a replication job for VFR
      5.  
        Failing over or failing back a replication job for VVR
      6.  
        Failing over or failing back a replication job for VFR
      7.  
        Unconfiguring a replication job for VFR
      8.  
        Unconfiguring a replication job for VVR
    8.  
      Viewing the list of iSCSI targets
    9.  
      Adding an initiator for an iSCSI target
    10.  
      Removing an initiator for an iSCSI target
    11.  
      Adding portal IPs for an iSCSI target
    12.  
      Setting up authentication for an iSCSI target
    13.  
      Viewing the list of initiators for an iSCSI target
    14.  
      Viewing the portal IPs for an iSCSI target
    15.  
      Removing portal IPs for an iSCSI target
    16.  
      Removing authentication settings for an iSCSI target
    17.  
      Removing an iSCSI target
    18.  
      Removing the file system store for an iSCSI target
    19.  
      Viewing the list of LUNs for an iSCSI target
    20.  
      Creating a LUN for an iSCSI target
    21.  
      Increasing the size of a LUN for an iSCSI target
    22.  
      Reducing the size of a LUN for an iSCSI target
    23.  
      Removing a LUN for an iSCSI target
    24.  
      Cloning a LUN for an iSCSI target
    25.  
      Creating a snapshot of a LUN for an iSCSI target
    26.  
      Viewing the list of snapshots for an iSCSI target
    27.  
      Removing a LUN snapshot
    28.  
      Restoring a LUN snapshot
  6. Provisioning and managing shares
    1.  
      About file sharing protocols
    2.  
      About concurrent access
    3.  
      About concurrent access with NFS and S3
    4.  
      Sharing directories using CIFS and NFS protocols
    5.  
      Adding a share
    6.  
      NFS protocol options
    7.  
      CIFS protocol options
    8.  
      About buckets and objects
    9.  
      About Active Directory (AD)
    10.  
      Logging on as an active directory user
    11.  
      Creating access and secret keys for an active directory user
    12.  
      Exporting an NFS share as an S3 bucket
    13.  
      Viewing information about a share
    14.  
      Accessing share details
    15.  
      Configuring a favorite share
    16.  
      Deleting a share
    17.  
      Managing permissions for CIFS shares
    18.  
      Managing clients for the NFS shares
  7. Managing policies
    1.  
      About policies for storage provisioning
    2.  
      About policies for long-term data retention
    3.  
      About policies for archiving data using Enterprise Vault
    4.  
      About policies for file systems
    5.  
      About pattern matching for data movement policies
    6.  
      Viewing information about policies
    7.  
      Activating storage policy templates
    8.  
      Activating long-term data retention policies
    9.  
      Activating archival policies
    10.  
      Creating an S3 bucket
    11.  
      About cloud-storage tiering
    12.  
      Adding a cloud tier for a scale-out file system
    13.  
      About tiering policies
    14.  
      Adding a secondary tier
    15.  
      Viewing information about the secondary tier
    16.  
      Adding or editing a tier policy on a secondary tier
    17.  
      Creating a policy schedule
  8. Managing settings
    1.  
      Viewing Veritas Access settings
    2.  
      About the cloud gateway
    3.  
      Viewing information about cloud services
    4.  
      Adding and removing a cloud service
    5.  
      Viewing discovery information about your cluster
    6.  
      About the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
    7.  
      Configuring LDAP
    8.  
      Configuring Active Directory
    9.  
      About user management
    10.  
      Managing local users
    11.  
      Configuring the NTP server
    12.  
      Starting or stopping the CIFS or NFS servers
    13.  
      Starting or stopping the S3 server
    14.  
      Adding or removing storage pools for S3 users
    15.  
      Configuring the /etc/hosts file for mapping of S3 users
    16.  
      Switching between NFS servers
    17.  
      Accessing the RESTful APIs
    18.  
      Registering a NetBackup master server or an EMM server
    19.  
      Modifying a NetBackup media server list
    20.  
      Viewing information about your NetBackup configuration with Veritas Access
    21.  
      About cluster management
    22.  
      Setting up the time and the time zone for the cluster
    23. About replication
      1.  
        Viewing information about replication
      2.  
        Setting up a virtual IP for replication
      3.  
        Creating a replication link
      4.  
        Deleting a replication link
      5.  
        Modifying a replication unit
      6.  
        Deleting a replication virtual IP
      7.  
        Setting a replication schedule
    24.  
      Viewing information about events
    25.  
      Purging events
    26. About Veritas Access product licensing
      1.  
        Adding a license
      2.  
        Per-TB licensing model
      3.  
        TB-Per-Core licensing model
      4.  
        Per-Core licensing model
      5.  
        Notes and functional enforcements for licensing
      6.  
        Viewing information about licensing
    27.  
      Configuring SmartIO
    28.  
      Viewing information about SmartIO
    29.  
      Setting object server default parameters
    30.  
      Setting up the object server group-specific parameters
    31.  
      Viewing information about S3
    32. About IP load balancing
      1.  
        Configuring the IP load balancer
      2.  
        Viewing information about IP load balancing
    33.  
      Configuring the KMS server
    34.  
      About the CIFS service management
    35.  
      Setting up the home directory
    36. About the File Transfer Protocol
      1.  
        Configuring the File Transfer Protocol
      2.  
        Viewing information about FTP
    37. About Veritas Data Deduplication
      1.  
        Add-on license for using Veritas Data Deduplication
      2.  
        Configuring Veritas Data Deduplication
      3.  
        Viewing information about Veritas Data Deduplication
      4.  
        Starting or stopping the Veritas Data Deduplication service
      5.  
        Increasing storage for Veritas Data Deduplication
      6.  
        Unconfiguring Veritas Data Deduplication
    38. About alert management
      1.  
        Viewing information about alert management
      2.  
        Managing alerts
  9.  
    Index

About scale-out file systems

A scale-out file system consists of a set of on-premises file systems and set of cloud tier(s) all exposed in a single name space. One on-premises file system stores the metadata (including the attributes) and all the other file systems store the data. Data is distributed among the file systems using a consistent hashing algorithm. This separation of metadata and data allows the scale-out file system to scale linearly.

Veritas Access supports access to scale-out file systems using NFS-Ganesha, S3, CIFS and FTP.

Scale-out file system specifications:

  • Twenty percent of a scale-out file system's size is devoted to the metadata file system.

  • The maximum size of a metadata file system is 10 TB.

  • The minimum size of a scale-out file system is 10 GB.

  • The maximum size of a scale-out file system is 3 PB.

  • To create a scale-out file system above 522 TB, you need to provide the file system size in multiples of 128 GB.

  • You can grow a scale-out file system up to 3 PB.

  • To create or grow a scale-out file system above 522 TB, you need to provide the file system size in multiples of 128 GB.

    Note:

    Growing a scale-out file system beyond 522 TB creates additional data file systems (based on the grow size), and data movement is triggered from the old file systems to the newly added file systems, so that data is distributed evenly among all the data file systems.

  • You can shrink the scale-out file system only if its size is less than 522 TB.

  • Access the data present in a scale-out file system using NFS (both v3 and v4), S3 (supports both AWS signature version 2 and version 4), CIFS and FTP protocols.

  • Ability to tier infrequently accessed data to the cloud using the cloud as a tier feature:

    There can be only one on-premises tier.

    There can be up to eight cloud tiers per a scale-out file system.

    You can move data between cloud tiers, for example, moving data from Azure to Glacier.

    Configure policies to move data from or to on-premises or cloud tiers.

    Policies can be configured based on the access time, modification time, or pattern.

  • Azure has a limitation of 500 TB per storage account. Azure users can have 200 storage accounts per subscription. A scale-out file system supports adding multiple Azure storage accounts in a single tier. Effectively, you can attach 100 PB of Azure storage to a single tier. When multiple storage accounts are used, Veritas Access selects one of the storage accounts to store data in a round-robin manner.

  • A scale-out file system can be configured for synchronous or asynchronous replication. Synchronous replication provides zero RPO for applications. Asynchronous replication provides non-zero RPO while providing improved performance compared to synchronous replication. This replication feature works even with cloud tier.

New data file systems are created when you grow the scale-out file system beyond 522 TB. The pool on which the scale-out file system is created is used to create these new file systems. There is also data movement to these new file systems so that data is distributed evenly among all the file systems (on-premises).

The following types of clouds can be added as storage tiers for a scale-out file system:

  • Amazon S3

  • Amazon Glacier

  • Amazon GovCloud (US)

  • Azure

  • Google cloud

  • Alibaba

  • IBM Cloud Object Storage

  • Veritas Access S3

If you want to add any other S3-compatible storage, then it can be qualified with Veritas Access and used.

The data is always written to the on-premises storage tier and then data can be moved to the cloud using a tiering mechanism. File metadata including any attributes set on the file resides on-premises even though the file is moved to the cloud. This cloud as a tier feature is best used for moving infrequently accessed data to the cloud.

Amazon Glacier is an offline cloud tier, which means that data moved to Amazon Glacier cannot be accessed immediately. An EIO error is returned if you try to read, write, or truncate the files moved to the Amazon Glacier tier. If you want to read or modify the data, move the data to on-premises using tier move or using policies. The data is available after some time based on the Amazon Glacier retrieval option you selected.

When Amazon S3, AWS GovCloud(US), Azure, Google cloud, Alibaba, IBM Cloud Object Storage, or Veritas Access S3 is used as the cloud tier, the data present on these clouds can be accessed any time (unlike in Amazon Glacier). An EIO error is returned if you try to write, or truncate the files moved to these clouds. If you want to modify the data, move the data to on-premises using tier move or using policies.

See the Veritas Access Cloud Storage Tiering Solutions Guide for more information.

Note:

Veritas Access support the CIFS protocol with a scale-out file system.