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
- 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
- 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
- Workflow for adding a cloud tier
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Setting object server default parameters
- Setting up the object server group-specific parameters
- Viewing information about S3
- 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
About Veritas Access
You can use Veritas Access in any of the following ways.
Table: Interfaces for using Veritas Access
Interface | Description |
|---|---|
GUI | Getting Started wizard with operations for managing the Veritas Access. Centralized dashboard and Quick Actions with operations for managing your storage. See the GUI and the Online Help for more information. |
Command-Line Interface (CLI) | Single point of administration for the entire cluster. See the manual pages for more information. |
Table: Veritas Access key features
Feature | Description |
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Supported protocols | Veritas Access includes support for the following protocols:
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Creation of Partition Secure Notification (PSN) file for Enterprise Vault Archiving | A Partition Secure Notification (PSN) file is created at a source partition after the successful backup of the partition at the remote site. For more information, see the Veritas Access Solutions Guide for Enterprise Vault. |
Managing application I/O workloads using maximum IOPS settings | The MAXIOPS limit determines the maximum number of I/Os processed per second collectively by the storage underlying the file system. |
Snapshot | Veritas Access supports snapshots for recovering from data corruption. If files, or an entire file system, are deleted or become corrupted, you can replace them from the latest uncorrupted snapshot. |
Compression | You can compress files to reduce the space used, while retaining the accessibility of the files and having the compression be transparent to applications. Compressed files look and behave almost exactly like uncompressed files: the compressed files have the same name, and can be read and written as with uncompressed files. This feature is available in the command line (CLI) only, not in GUI. |
Veritas Access as an iSCSI target for RHEL 7.x | Veritas Access as an iSCSI target can be configured to serve block storage. An iSCSI target as service is hosted in an active-active mode in the Veritas Access cluster. |
Configuring Veritas Access in IPv4 and IPv6 mixed mode | Support for configuring the Veritas Access cluster in an IPv4 environment, or an IPV6 environment, or in a mixed mode environment where you have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. |
NetBackup integration | Built-in NetBackup client for backing up your file systems to a NetBackup master or media server. Once data is backed up, a storage administrator can delete unwanted data from Veritas Access to free up expensive storage for more data. See the Veritas Access Solutions Guide for NetBackup for more information. |
OpenStack plug-in | Integration with OpenStack:
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Quotas | Support for setting file system quotas, user quotas, and hard quotas. |
Replication | Periodic replication of data over IP networks. See the episodic(1) man page for more information. Synchronous replication of data over IP networks See the continuous(1) man page for more information. |
Support for LDAP, NIS, and AD | You can configure LDAP, NIS and AD authentication services with Veritas Access. |
Partition Directory | With support for partitioned directories, directory entries are redistributed into various hash directories. These hash directories are not visible in the name-space view of the user or operating system. For every new create, delete, or lookup, this feature performs a lookup for the respective hashed directory and performs the operation in that directory. This leaves the parent directory inode and its other hash directories unobstructed for access, which vastly improves file system performance. By default this feature is not enabled. See the storage_fs(1) manual page to enable this feature. |
Veritas Data Deduplication | Veritas Data Deduplication technology is installed on top of Veritas Access and integrates with NetBackup. It catalogs and organizes incoming deduplicated backup data and stores it on Veritas Access storage. For more information, see the Veritas Access Solutions Guide for NetBackup. |
Support for Cloud tiering | The cloud as a tier feature for a file system lets you move data to different cloud services. The data is always written to the on-premises storage tier and then data can be moved to the cloud tier using a tiering mechanism. For more information, see the Veritas Access Cloud Storage Tiering Guide. |
Separation of management and data network | Ability to configure a separate management and data network during cluster configuration. For more information, see the Veritas Access Appliance Initial Configuration Guide. |
Support for multiple data subnets | Veritas Access now supports multiple data subnets. This is applicable to all the protocols that the Veritas Access supports. |