Veritas Access Online Help
- Getting started
- About Veritas Access
- Enabling certificate-based authentication in Veritas Access
- About the dashboard
- Setting up the storage type for provisioning
- About the CIFS shares
- About managing CIFS shares for Enterprise Vault
- About the NFS shares
- About an iSCSI target
- Creating an iSCSI target and provisioning LUNs
- About S3 buckets for NetBackup
- Using the Veritas Access product documentation
- Changing your password
- Important release information
- Managing storage
- About storage provisioning and management
- Adding disks to a storage pool
- Removing disks from a storage pool
- Removing disks from a cluster
- Viewing information about disks
- Accessing disk details
- Adding or removing a node
- Viewing information about a node in a cluster
- Accessing node details
- Configuring a disk
- Increasing the size of a disk
- Running scanbus
- Formatting a disk
- Marking a disk as spare
- About SmartIO for solid-state drives
- About storage provisioning and management
- Managing file sharing services
- Monitoring and troubleshooting
- Provisioning and managing file systems
- About scale-out file systems
- Generating the long-term data retention script
- Creating a file system
- Setting the maximum IOPS
- Creating a snapshot
- Restoring a snapshot
- Configuring a replication job
- Stopping or starting a replication job for VVR
- Pausing and resuming a replication job for VVR
- Enabling or disabling a replication job for VFR
- Synchronizing a replication job for VFR
- Failing over or failing back a replication job for VVR
- Failing over or failing back a replication job for VFR
- Unconfiguring a replication job for VFR
- Unconfiguring a replication job for VVR
- Viewing the list of iSCSI targets
- Adding an initiator for an iSCSI target
- Removing an initiator for an iSCSI target
- Adding portal IPs for an iSCSI target
- Setting up authentication for an iSCSI target
- Viewing the list of initiators for an iSCSI target
- Viewing the portal IPs for an iSCSI target
- Removing portal IPs for an iSCSI target
- Removing authentication settings for an iSCSI target
- Removing an iSCSI target
- Removing the file system store for an iSCSI target
- Viewing the list of LUNs for an iSCSI target
- Creating a LUN for an iSCSI target
- Increasing the size of a LUN for an iSCSI target
- Reducing the size of a LUN for an iSCSI target
- Removing a LUN for an iSCSI target
- Cloning a LUN for an iSCSI target
- Creating a snapshot of a LUN for an iSCSI target
- Viewing the list of snapshots for an iSCSI target
- Removing a LUN snapshot
- Restoring a LUN snapshot
- Provisioning and managing shares
- About file sharing protocols
- About concurrent access
- About concurrent access with NFS and S3
- Sharing directories using CIFS and NFS protocols
- Adding a share
- NFS protocol options
- CIFS protocol options
- About buckets and objects
- About Active Directory (AD)
- Logging on as an active directory user
- Creating access and secret keys for an active directory user
- Exporting an NFS share as an S3 bucket
- Viewing information about a share
- Accessing share details
- Configuring a favorite share
- Deleting a share
- Managing permissions for CIFS shares
- Managing clients for the NFS shares
- Managing policies
- About policies for storage provisioning
- About policies for long-term data retention
- About policies for archiving data using Enterprise Vault
- About policies for file systems
- About pattern matching for data movement policies
- Viewing information about policies
- Activating storage policy templates
- Activating long-term data retention policies
- Activating archival policies
- Creating an S3 bucket
- About cloud-storage tiering
- Adding a cloud tier for a scale-out file system
- About tiering policies
- Adding a secondary tier
- Viewing information about the secondary tier
- Adding or editing a tier policy on a secondary tier
- Creating a policy schedule
- Managing settings
- Viewing Veritas Access settings
- About the cloud gateway
- Viewing information about cloud services
- Adding and removing a cloud service
- Viewing discovery information about your cluster
- About the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- Configuring LDAP
- Configuring Active Directory
- About user management
- Managing local users
- Configuring the NTP server
- Starting or stopping the CIFS or NFS servers
- Starting or stopping the S3 server
- Adding or removing storage pools for S3 users
- Configuring the /etc/hosts file for mapping of S3 users
- Switching between NFS servers
- Accessing the RESTful APIs
- Registering a NetBackup master server or an EMM server
- Modifying a NetBackup media server list
- Viewing information about your NetBackup configuration with Veritas Access
- About cluster management
- Setting up the time and the time zone for the cluster
- About replication
- Viewing information about events
- Purging events
- About Veritas Access product licensing
- Configuring SmartIO
- Viewing information about SmartIO
- Setting object server default parameters
- Setting up the object server group-specific parameters
- Viewing information about S3
- About IP load balancing
- Configuring the KMS server
- About the CIFS service management
- Setting up the home directory
- About the File Transfer Protocol
- About Veritas Data Deduplication
- About alert management
- Index
Configuring SmartIO
The SmartIO feature of Veritas Access enables data efficiency on your SSDs through I/O caching. Using SmartIO to improve efficiency, you can optimize the cost per IOPS. SmartIO does not require in-depth knowledge of the hardware technologies underneath. SmartIO uses advanced, customizable heuristics to determine what data to cache and how that data gets removed from the cache. The heuristics take advantage of Veritas Access' knowledge of the characteristics of the workload.
SmartIO uses a cache area on the target device or devices. The cache area is the storage space that SmartIO uses to store the cached data and the metadata about the cached data. To start using SmartIO, you can create a cache area with a single command, while the application is online.
When the application issues an I/O request, SmartIO checks to see if the I/O can be serviced from the cache. As applications access data from the underlying volumes or file systems, certain data is moved to the cache based on the internal heuristics. Subsequent I/Os are processed from the cache.
To create a cache area
- Prerequisites:
- You must have solid-state drives (SSDs) configured to use SmartIO.
- Click Settings > SmartIO Management.
- Click the ellipses for the cluster where you want to create the cache area, and click Create Cache.
- Enter the requested information.
Default - You can only have one default cache created for a disk.
Reserved - You can set the cache type at the time of creating the cache area. The cache area is set to default if not specified otherwise. Cache areas can be converted from one type to another. If a cache area is not defined for an application, the default cache area is used.
- View the Recent Activity panel for the status of the task.
To delete a cache area
- Prerequisites:
Create a cache area.
- Click Settings > SmartIO Management.
- Click the ellipses for the cluster where you want to delete the cache area, and click Delete Cache.
- View the Recent Activity panel for the status of the task.