Veritas Access Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): Access (7.3.2)
Platform: 3340
  1. Section I. Introducing Veritas Access
    1. Introducing Veritas Access
      1.  
        About Veritas Access
      2.  
        Accessing the Veritas Access CLI
      3.  
        Navigating the Veritas Access CLI
      4.  
        Getting help using the Veritas Access command-line interface
      5.  
        Displaying the command history
      6.  
        Using the more command
  2. Section II. Configuring Veritas Access
    1. Adding users or roles
      1.  
        Adding Master, System Administrator, and Storage Administrator users
      2.  
        About user roles and privileges
      3.  
        About the naming requirements for adding new users
    2. Configuring the network
      1.  
        About configuring the Veritas Access network
      2.  
        About bonding Ethernet interfaces
      3.  
        Bonding Ethernet interfaces
      4.  
        Configuring DNS settings
      5.  
        About the IP addresses for the Ethernet interfaces
      6.  
        About Ethernet interfaces
      7.  
        Displaying current Ethernet interfaces and states
      8.  
        Configuring IP addresses
      9.  
        Configuring Veritas Access to use jumbo frames
      10.  
        Configuring VLAN interfaces
      11.  
        Configuring NIC devices
      12.  
        Swapping network interfaces
      13.  
        Excluding PCI IDs from the cluster
      14.  
        About configuring routing tables
      15.  
        Configuring routing tables
      16.  
        Changing the firewall settings
      17.  
        IP load balancing
    3. Configuring authentication services
      1.  
        About configuring LDAP settings
      2.  
        Configuring LDAP server settings
      3.  
        Administering the Veritas Access cluster's LDAP client
      4.  
        Configuring the NIS-related settings
      5.  
        Configuring NSS lookup order
  3. Section III. Managing Veritas Access storage
    1. Configuring storage
      1.  
        About storage provisioning and management
      2.  
        About configuring disks
      3.  
        About configuring storage pools
      4.  
        Configuring storage pools
      5.  
        About quotas for usage
      6.  
        Enabling, disabling, and displaying the status of file system quotas
      7.  
        Setting and displaying file system quotas
      8.  
        Setting user quotas for users of specified groups
      9.  
        About quotas for CIFS home directories
      10.  
        Workflow for configuring and managing storage using the Veritas Access CLI
      11.  
        Displaying information for all disk devices associated with the nodes in a cluster
      12.  
        Displaying WWN information
      13.  
        Importing new LUNs forcefully for new or existing pools
      14.  
        Initiating host discovery of LUNs
      15.  
        Increasing the storage capacity of a LUN
      16.  
        Formatting or reinitializing a disk
      17.  
        Removing a disk
    2. Configuring data integrity with I/O fencing
      1.  
        About I/O fencing
      2. Configuring disk-based I/O fencing
        1.  
          Replacing an existing coordinator disk
        2.  
          Disabling I/O fencing
        3.  
          Destroying the coordinator pool
    3. Configuring ISCSI
      1.  
        About iSCSI
      2.  
        Configuring the iSCSI initiator
      3.  
        Configuring the iSCSI initiator name
      4.  
        Configuring the iSCSI devices
      5.  
        Configuring discovery on iSCSI
      6.  
        Configuring the iSCSI targets
      7.  
        Modifying tunables for iSCSI
    4. Veritas Access as an iSCSI target
      1.  
        About Veritas Access as an iSCSI target
      2.  
        Managing the iSCSI targets
      3.  
        Managing the iSCSI target service
      4.  
        Managing the LUNs
      5.  
        Managing the mappings with iSCSI initiators
      6.  
        Managing the users
  4. Section IV. Managing Veritas Access file access services
    1. Configuring your NFS server
      1.  
        About using NFS server with Veritas Access
      2.  
        Using the kernel-based NFS server
      3.  
        Using the NFS-Ganesha server
      4.  
        Switching between NFS servers
      5.  
        Recommended tuning for NFS-Ganesha version 3 and version 4
      6.  
        Accessing the NFS server
      7.  
        Displaying and resetting NFS statistics
      8.  
        Configuring Veritas Access for ID mapping for NFS version 4
      9.  
        Configuring the NFS client for ID mapping for NFS version 4
      10.  
        About authenticating NFS clients
      11. Setting up Kerberos authentication for NFS clients
        1.  
          Adding and configuring Veritas Access to the Kerberos realm
    2. Using Veritas Access as a CIFS server
      1.  
        About configuring Veritas Access for CIFS
      2.  
        About configuring CIFS for standalone mode
      3.  
        Configuring CIFS server status for standalone mode
      4.  
        Changing security settings
      5.  
        Changing security settings after the CIFS server is stopped
      6. About Active Directory (AD)
        1.  
          Configuring entries for Veritas Access DNS for authenticating to Active Directory (AD)
        2.  
          Joining Veritas Access to Active Directory (AD)
        3.  
          Verifying that Veritas Access has joined Active Directory (AD) successfully
      7. About configuring CIFS for Active Directory (AD) domain mode
        1.  
          Configuring CIFS for the AD domain mode
        2.  
          Using multi-domain controller support in CIFS
        3.  
          About leaving an AD domain
        4.  
          Changing domain settings for AD domain mode
        5.  
          Removing the AD interface
      8.  
        Setting NTLM
      9. About setting trusted domains
        1.  
          Specifying trusted domains that are allowed access to the CIFS server
        2.  
          Allowing trusted domains access to CIFS when setting an IDMAP backend to rid
        3.  
          Allowing trusted domains access to CIFS when setting an IDMAP backend to ldap
        4.  
          Allowing trusted domains access to CIFS when setting an IDMAP backend to hash
        5.  
          Allowing trusted domains access to CIFS when setting an IDMAP backend to ad
        6.  
          About configuring Windows Active Directory as an IDMAP backend for CIFS
        7.  
          Configuring the Active Directory schema with CIFS-schema extensions
        8.  
          Configuring the LDAP client for authentication using the CLI
        9.  
          Configuring the CIFS server with the LDAP backend
        10.  
          Setting Active Directory trusted domains
      10.  
        About storing account information
      11.  
        Storing user and group accounts
      12.  
        Reconfiguring the CIFS service
      13.  
        About mapping user names for CIFS/NFS sharing
      14.  
        About the mapuser commands
      15.  
        Adding, removing, or displaying the mapping between CIFS and NFS users
      16.  
        Automatically mapping of UNIX users from LDAP to Windows users
      17. About managing home directories
        1.  
          Setting the home directory file systems
        2.  
          Setting up home directories
        3.  
          Displaying home directory usage information
        4.  
          Deleting home directories and disabling creation of home directories
      18. About CIFS clustering modes
        1.  
          About switching the clustering mode
      19. About migrating CIFS shares and home directories
        1.  
          Migrating CIFS shares and home directories from normal to ctdb clustering mode
        2.  
          Migrating CIFS shares and home directories from ctdb to normal clustering mode
      20.  
        Setting the CIFS aio_fork option
      21. About managing local users and groups
        1.  
          Creating a local CIFS user
        2.  
          Configuring a local group
      22.  
        Enabling CIFS data migration
    3. Configuring Veritas Access to work with Oracle Direct NFS
      1.  
        About using Veritas Access with Oracle Direct NFS
      2.  
        Best practices for improving Oracle database performance
      3.  
        About the Oracle Direct NFS architecture
      4.  
        About Oracle Direct NFS node or storage connection failures
      5.  
        Configuring an Oracle Direct NFS storage pool
      6.  
        Configuring an Oracle Direct NFS file system
      7.  
        Configuring an Oracle Direct NFS share
    4. Configuring an FTP server
      1.  
        About FTP
      2.  
        Creating the FTP home directory
      3.  
        Using the FTP server commands
      4.  
        About FTP server options
      5.  
        Customizing the FTP server options
      6.  
        Administering the FTP sessions
      7.  
        Uploading the FTP logs
      8.  
        Administering the FTP local user accounts
      9.  
        About the settings for the FTP local user accounts
      10.  
        Configuring settings for the FTP local user accounts
      11.  
        File sharing for a scale-out file system using FTP
  5. Section V. Managing the Veritas Access Object Store server
    1. Using Veritas Access as an Object Store server
      1.  
        About the Object Store server
      2.  
        Use cases for configuring the Object Store server
      3.  
        Configuring the Object Store server
      4.  
        About buckets and objects
      5.  
        File systems used for objectstore buckets
      6.  
        Multi-protocol support for NFS with S3
  6. Section VI. Monitoring and troubleshooting
    1. Configuring event notifications and audit logs topics
      1.  
        About event notifications
      2.  
        About severity levels and filters
      3.  
        About SNMP notifications
      4.  
        Configuring an email group
      5.  
        Configuring a syslog server
      6.  
        Exporting events in syslog format to a given URL
      7.  
        Displaying events on the console
      8.  
        Configuring events for event reporting
      9.  
        Configuring an SNMP management server
  7. Section VII. Provisioning and managing Veritas Access file systems
    1. Creating and maintaining file systems
      1.  
        About creating and maintaining file systems
      2.  
        About scale-out file systems
      3.  
        Erasure coding in a cluster file system (CFS) for NFS use case
      4.  
        About encryption at rest
      5. Considerations for creating a file system
        1.  
          Best practices for creating file systems
        2.  
          Choosing a file system layout type
        3.  
          Determining the initial extent size for a file system
        4.  
          About striping file systems
        5.  
          About creating a tuned file system for a specific workload
        6.  
          About FastResync
        7.  
          About scale-out fsck
        8.  
          Setting retention in files
        9.  
          Setting WORM over NFS
        10.  
          About managing application I/O workloads using maximum IOPS settings
      6.  
        Creating a file system
      7.  
        Bringing the file system online or offline
      8.  
        Listing all file systems and associated information
      9. Modifying a file system
        1.  
          Adding or removing a mirror from a file system
        2.  
          Adding or removing a column from a file system
        3.  
          Increasing the size of a file system
        4.  
          Decreasing the size of a file system
      10. Managing a file system
        1.  
          Defragmenting a file system
        2.  
          Checking and repairing a file system
        3.  
          Configuring FastResync for a file system
        4.  
          Disabling the FastResync option for a file system
        5.  
          Checking and resynchronizing stale mirrors
        6.  
          Setting file system alerts
        7.  
          Displaying file system alert values
        8.  
          Removing file system alerts
      11.  
        Destroying a file system
      12.  
        Upgrading disk layout versions
  8. Section VIII. Configuring cloud storage
    1. Configuring the cloud gateway
      1.  
        About the cloud gateway
      2.  
        Configuring the cloud gateway
    2. Configuring cloud as a tier
      1.  
        Configuring the cloud as a tier for scale-out file systems
      2.  
        Moving files between tiers in a scale-out file system
      3. About policies for scale-out file systems
        1.  
          About pattern matching for data movement policies
        2.  
          About schedules for running policies
        3.  
          Creating and scheduling a policy for a scale-out file system
      4.  
        Obtaining statistics on data usage in the cloud tier in scale-out file systems
  9. Section IX. Provisioning and managing Veritas Access shares
    1. Creating shares for applications
      1.  
        About file sharing protocols
      2.  
        About concurrent access
      3.  
        Sharing directories using CIFS and NFS protocols
      4.  
        Sharing a file system as a CIFS home directory
      5.  
        About concurrent access with NFS and S3
    2. Creating and maintaining NFS shares
      1.  
        About NFS file sharing
      2.  
        Displaying file systems and snapshots that can be exported
      3.  
        Exporting an NFS share
      4.  
        Displaying exported directories
      5.  
        About managing NFS shares using netgroups
      6.  
        Unexporting a directory or deleting NFS options
      7.  
        Exporting an NFS share for Kerberos authentication
      8.  
        Mounting an NFS share with Kerberos security from the NFS client
      9.  
        Exporting an NFS snapshot
    3. Creating and maintaining CIFS shares
      1.  
        About managing CIFS shares
      2.  
        Exporting a directory as a CIFS share
      3.  
        Configuring a CIFS share as secondary storage for an Enterprise Vault store
      4.  
        Exporting the same file system/directory as a different CIFS share
      5.  
        About the CIFS export options
      6.  
        Setting share properties
      7.  
        Hiding system files when adding a CIFS normal share
      8.  
        Displaying CIFS share properties
      9.  
        Allowing specified users and groups access to the CIFS share
      10.  
        Denying specified users and groups access to the CIFS share
      11.  
        Exporting a CIFS snapshot
      12.  
        Deleting a CIFS share
      13.  
        Modifying a CIFS share
      14.  
        Making a CIFS share shadow copy aware
      15.  
        Creating CIFS shares for a scale-out file system
    4. Using Veritas Access with OpenStack
      1.  
        About the Veritas Access integration with OpenStack
      2. About the Veritas Access integration with OpenStack Cinder
        1.  
          About the Veritas Access integration with OpenStack Cinder architecture
        2.  
          Configuring Veritas Access with OpenStack Cinder
      3. About the Veritas Access integration with OpenStack Manila
        1.  
          OpenStack Manila use cases
        2.  
          Configuring Veritas Access with OpenStack Manila
        3.  
          Creating a new share backend on the OpenStack controller node
        4.  
          Creating an OpenStack Manila share type
        5.  
          Creating an OpenStack Manila file share
        6.  
          Creating an OpenStack Manila share snapshot
  10. Section X. Managing Veritas Access storage services
    1. Deduplicating data
      1.  
        About data deduplication
      2.  
        Best practices for using the Veritas Access deduplication feature
      3.  
        Setting up deduplication
      4.  
        Configuring deduplication
      5.  
        Manually running deduplication
      6.  
        Scheduling deduplication
      7.  
        Setting deduplication parameters
      8.  
        Removing deduplication
      9.  
        Verifying deduplication
    2. Compressing files
      1. About compressing files
        1.  
          About the compressed file format
        2.  
          About the file compression attributes
        3.  
          About the file compression block size
      2.  
        Use cases for compressing files
      3.  
        Best practices for using compression
      4. Compression tasks
        1.  
          Compressing files
        2.  
          Showing the scheduled compression job
        3.  
          Scheduling compression jobs
        4.  
          Listing compressed files
        5.  
          Uncompressing files
        6.  
          Modifying the scheduled compression
        7.  
          Removing the specified schedule
        8.  
          Stopping the schedule for a file system
        9.  
          Removing the pattern-related rule for a file system
        10.  
          Removing the modified age related rule for a file system
    3. Configuring SmartTier
      1.  
        About Veritas Access SmartTier
      2.  
        How Veritas Access uses SmartTier
      3.  
        Configuring the policy of each tiered file system
      4.  
        Adding tiers to a file system
      5.  
        Adding or removing a column from a secondary tier of a file system
      6.  
        Configuring a mirror to a tier of a file system
      7.  
        Listing all of the files on the specified tier
      8.  
        Displaying a list of SmartTier file systems
      9.  
        About tiering policies
      10.  
        About configuring the policy of each tiered file system
      11.  
        Best practices for setting relocation policies
      12.  
        Relocating a file or directory of a tiered file system
      13.  
        Displaying the tier location of a specified file
      14.  
        About configuring schedules for all tiered file systems
      15.  
        Configuring schedules for tiered file systems
      16.  
        Displaying the files that may be moved or pruned by running a policy
      17.  
        Allowing metadata information on the file system to be written on the secondary tier
      18.  
        Restricting metadata information to the primary tier only
      19.  
        Removing a tier from a file system
    4. Configuring SmartIO
      1.  
        About SmartIO for solid-state drives
      2.  
        About configuring SmartIO
      3.  
        About SmartIO read caching for applications running on Veritas Access file systems
      4.  
        Setting up SmartIO read caching for Veritas Access
      5.  
        About SmartIO writeback caching for applications running on Veritas Access file systems
      6.  
        Tuning the writeback caching
      7.  
        Flushing dirty data from a writeback cache area
      8.  
        Setting up SmartIO writeback caching for VxFS file systems
      9.  
        Verifying the VxFS cache area and monitoring the caching
      10.  
        Setting the caching mode
      11.  
        Customizing the caching behavior
      12.  
        Viewing the caching statistics for a cache area
    5. Configuring episodic replication
      1.  
        About Veritas Access episodic replication
      2.  
        How Veritas Access episodic replication works
      3.  
        Starting Veritas Access episodic replication
      4.  
        Setting up communication between the source and the destination clusters
      5.  
        Setting up the file systems to replicate
      6.  
        Setting up files to exclude from an episodic replication unit
      7.  
        Scheduling the episodic replication
      8.  
        Defining what to replicate
      9.  
        About the maximum number of parallel episodic replication jobs
      10.  
        Managing an episodic replication job
      11.  
        Replicating compressed data
      12.  
        Displaying episodic replication job information and status
      13.  
        Synchronizing an episodic replication job
      14.  
        Behavior of the file systems on the episodic replication destination target
      15.  
        Accessing file systems configured as episodic replication destinations
      16.  
        Creating a recovery point objective (RPO) report
      17. Episodic replication job failover and failback
        1.  
          Process summary
        2.  
          Overview of the planned failover process
        3.  
          Overview of the planned failback process
        4.  
          Overview of the unplanned failover process
        5.  
          Overview of the unplanned failback process
    6. Configuring continuous replication
      1.  
        About Veritas Access continuous replication
      2. How Veritas Access continuous replication works
        1.  
          How data flows in continuous replication synchronous mode
        2.  
          How data flows in continuous replication asynchronous mode
      3.  
        Starting Veritas Access continuous replication
      4.  
        Setting up communication between the source and the destination clusters
      5.  
        Setting up the file system to replicate
      6.  
        Managing continuous replication
      7.  
        Displaying continuous replication information and status
      8.  
        Unconfiguring continuous replication
      9. Continuous replication failover and failback
        1.  
          Process summary
        2.  
          Overview of the planned failover process
        3.  
          Overview of the planned failback process
        4.  
          Overview of the unplanned failover process
        5.  
          Overview of the unplanned failback process
    7. Using snapshots
      1.  
        About snapshots
      2.  
        Creating snapshots
      3.  
        Displaying snapshots
      4.  
        Managing disk space used by snapshots
      5.  
        Bringing snapshots online or taking snapshots offline
      6.  
        Restoring a snapshot
      7.  
        About snapshot schedules
      8.  
        Configuring snapshot schedules
      9.  
        Managing automated snapshots
    8. Using instant rollbacks
      1.  
        About instant rollbacks
      2.  
        Creating a space-optimized rollback
      3.  
        Creating a full-sized rollback
      4.  
        Listing Veritas Access instant rollbacks
      5.  
        Restoring a file system from an instant rollback
      6.  
        Refreshing an instant rollback from a file system
      7.  
        Bringing an instant rollback online
      8.  
        Taking an instant rollback offline
      9.  
        Destroying an instant rollback
      10.  
        Creating a shared cache object for Veritas Access instant rollbacks
      11.  
        Listing cache objects
      12.  
        Destroying a cache object of a Veritas Access instant rollback
    9. Configuring Veritas Access with the NetBackup client
      1.  
        About Veritas Access as a NetBackup client
      2.  
        Prerequisites for configuring the NetBackup client
      3.  
        About the NetBackup Snapshot Client
      4.  
        About NetBackup snapshot methods
      5.  
        Enabling or disabling the NetBackup SAN client
      6.  
        Workflow for configuring Veritas Access for NetBackup
      7.  
        Registering a NetBackup master server or adding an optional media server
      8.  
        Displaying the excluded files from backup
      9.  
        Displaying the included and excluded files for backups
      10.  
        Adding or deleting patterns to the list of files in backups
      11.  
        Configuring or resetting the virtual IP address used by NetBackup
      12.  
        Configuring the virtual name of NetBackup
      13.  
        Displaying the status of NetBackup services
      14.  
        Configuring backup operations using NetBackup or other third-party backup applications
      15.  
        Performing a backup or restore of a Veritas Access file system over a NetBackup SAN client
      16.  
        Performing a backup or restore of a snapshot
      17.  
        Installing or uninstalling the NetBackup client
      18.  
        Configuring Veritas Access for NetBackup cloud storage
  11. Section XI. Reference
    1. Appendix A. Veritas Access documentation
      1.  
        Using the Veritas Access product documentation
      2.  
        About accessing the online man pages
    2. Appendix B. Veritas Access tuning
      1.  
        File system mount-time memory usage

Tuning the writeback caching

When writeback caching is enabled, any data that is read from the disk is cached, unless the file is explicitly marked for "no caching" or if the cache is full. For writes, certain writes cause the data to be cached. You can load a file to speed up the application. Pinning a file in the cache ensures that the data does not get evicted. If some data is already cached, and that portion of the disk is overwritten, then SmartIO also writes the new data to the cache device to ensure that the cached data remains up to date.

You can use the following tunable parameters to adjust the size of the cache and how long data is held in the cache.

Setting the maximum space used for dirty data per node

When writeback is enabled, you can configure a maximum for the space used for dirty data per node. By default, there is no maximum. If you configure a maximum, you must allow at least 512 MB for each file system or cluster file system. For a cluster file system, the space required for data reflection is not included in the maximum.

To set the writeback size

  1. Run the following command to configure the maximum. For a cluster file system, run the command on each node of the cluster to make the setting cluster wide. 
    SmartIO> cache wb_size nodename cachename cache_size

    Where:

    nodename specifies the cluster node.

    cachename specifies the name of the cache.

    cache_size specifies the size of the cache.

  2. For the changed value to take affect, run the following command.
    SMARTIO> fs enable target1
  3. The writeback size is shown as Writeback Cache Use Limit, when you display the cache statistics. To display the cache statistics:
    SMARTIO> cache stat

    See Viewing the caching statistics for a cache area.