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Access Appliance Online Help

Last Published: 2021-05-09

Product(s): Appliances (7.4.3)

Platform: Veritas 3340,Access Appliance OS

About Access Appliance

You can use Access Appliance in any of the following ways.

Table: Interfaces for using Access Appliance

Interface	Description
GUI	Getting Started wizard with operations for managing the Access Appliance. 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.

Interface

Description

GUI

Getting Started wizard with operations for managing the Access Appliance.

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: Access Appliance key features

Feature	Description
Supported protocols	Access Appliance includes support for the following protocols: Amazon-compatible S3 See About the Object Store server. CIFS See About configuring Access Appliance for CIFS. FTP iSCSI target NFS See About using the NFS server with Access Appliance.
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 Access Appliance 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	Access Appliance 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.
Access Appliance as an iSCSI target for RHEL 7.x	Access Appliance 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 Access Appliance cluster.
Configuring Access Appliance in IPv4 and IPv6 mixed mode	Support for configuring the Access Appliance 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 Access Appliance to free up expensive storage for more data. See the Access Appliance Solutions Guide for NetBackup for more information.
OpenStack plug-in	Integration with OpenStack: OpenStack Cinder integration that allows OpenStack instances to use the storage hosted by Access Appliance. OpenStack Manila integration that lets you share Access Appliance file systems with virtual machines on OpenStack Manila.
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 Access Appliance. See About Active Directory (AD).
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 Access Appliance and integrates with NetBackup. It catalogs and organizes incoming deduplicated backup data and stores it on Access Appliance storage. For more information, see the Access Appliance Solutions Guide for NetBackup.
FIPS	FIPS 140-2 standard is enabled by default for the Veritas Operating System (VxOS).
STIG	You can enable OS STIG hardening rules for increased security. These rules are based on the following profile from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). For more information, see the Appliance security chapter in the Veritas Access Appliance Initial Configuration Guide.
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 Access Appliance 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	Access Appliance now supports multiple data subnets. This is applicable to all the protocols that the Access Appliance supports.