Veritas Access Appliance Administrator's Guide
- Section I. Introducing Access Appliance
- Section II. Configuring Access Appliance
- Managing users
- Configuring the network
- Configuring authentication services
- Configuring user authentication using digital certificates or smart cards
- Section III. Managing Access Appliance storage
- Configuring storage
- Managing disks
- Access Appliance as an iSCSI target
- Configuring storage
- Section IV. Managing Access Appliance file access services
- Configuring the NFS server
- Setting up Kerberos authentication for NFS clients
- Using Access Appliance as a CIFS server
- About configuring CIFS for Active Directory (AD) domain mode
- About setting trusted domains
- About managing home directories
- About CIFS clustering modes
- About migrating CIFS shares and home directories
- About managing local users and groups
- Using Access Appliance as an Object Store server
- Configuring the NFS server
- Section V. Managing Access Appliance security
- Section VI. Monitoring and troubleshooting
- Configuring event notifications and audit logs
- About alert management
- Appliance log files
- Configuring event notifications and audit logs
- Section VII. Provisioning and managing Access Appliance file systems
- Creating and maintaining file systems
- Considerations for creating a file system
- About managing application I/O workloads using maximum IOPS settings
- Modifying a file system
- Managing a file system
- Creating and maintaining file systems
- Section VIII. Provisioning and managing Access Appliance shares
- Creating shares for applications
- Creating and maintaining NFS shares
- About the NFS shares
- Creating and maintaining CIFS shares
- About the CIFS shares
- About managing CIFS shares for Enterprise Vault
- Integrating Access Appliance with Data Insight
- Section IX. Managing Access Appliance storage services
- Configuring episodic replication
- Episodic replication job failover and failback
- Configuring continuous replication
- How Access Appliance continuous replication works
- Continuous replication failover and failback
- Using snapshots
- Using instant rollbacks
- Configuring episodic replication
- Section X. Reference
About file sharing protocols
Access Appliance provides support for multiple file sharing protocols.
Access Appliance offers unified access, which provides the option to share a file system or a directory in a file system with more than one protocol. For unified access, only certain protocols combinations are supported.
Table: Protocols
Protocol | Definition |
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Amazon S3 | The object server lets you store and retrieve the data that is stored in Access Appliance using the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) protocol.
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CIFS | CIFS is active on all nodes within the Access Appliance cluster. The specific shares are read/write on the node they reside on, but can failover to any other node in the cluster. Access Appliance supports CIFS home directory shares.
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NFS | All the nodes in the cluster can serve the same NFS share at the same time in read-write mode. This creates very high aggregated throughput rates, because you can use the sum of the bandwidth of all the nodes. Cache-coherency is maintained throughout the cluster. Access Appliance supports the NFS kernel-based server. |