Veritas Access Appliance Administrator's Guide
- Section I. Introducing Access Appliance
- Section II. Configuring Access Appliance
- Managing users
- Configuring the network
- About configuring the Access Appliance network
- About bonding Ethernet interfaces
- Bonding Ethernet interfaces
- Configuring DNS settings
- About Ethernet interfaces
- Displaying current Ethernet interfaces and states
- Configuring IP addresses
- Configuring VLAN interfaces
- Configuring NIC devices
- About configuring routing tables
- Configuring routing tables
- Changing the firewall settings
- Configuring Access Appliance in IPv4 and IPv6 mixed mode
- Support for multiple data subnets
- Configuring authentication services
- About configuring LDAP settings
- Configuring LDAP server settings
- Administering the Access Appliance cluster's LDAP client
- About Active Directory (AD)
- Configuring AD server settings
- Configuring entries for Access Appliance DNS for authenticating to Active Directory (AD)
- Configuring AD/LDAP using the GUI
- Configuring the NIS-related settings
- Configuring NSS lookup order
- Sign-in options for the Access Appliance UI
- Configuring user authentication using digital certificates or smart cards
- Section III. Managing Access Appliance storage
- Configuring storage
- About storage provisioning and management
- About configuring disks
- About configuring storage pools
- Configuring storage pools
- About quotas for usage
- Enabling, disabling, and displaying the status of file system quotas
- Setting and displaying file system quotas
- Setting user quotas for users of specified groups
- About quotas for CIFS home directories
- Workflow for configuring and managing storage using the Access Appliance CLI
- Displaying information for all disk devices associated with the nodes in a cluster
- Displaying WWN information
- Importing new LUNs forcefully for new or existing pools
- Initiating host discovery of LUNs
- Managing disks
- Access Appliance as an iSCSI target
- Configuring storage
- Section IV. Managing Access Appliance file access services
- Configuring the NFS server
- About using the NFS server with Access Appliance
- Using the kernel-based NFS server
- Accessing the NFS server
- Displaying and resetting NFS statistics
- Configuring Access Appliance for ID mapping for NFS version 4
- Configuring the NFS client for ID mapping for NFS version 4
- About authenticating NFS clients
- Setting up Kerberos authentication for NFS clients
- Using Access Appliance as a CIFS server
- About configuring Access Appliance for CIFS
- About configuring CIFS for standalone mode
- Configuring CIFS server status for standalone mode
- Changing security settings
- About configuring CIFS for Active Directory (AD) domain mode
- Setting NTLM
- About setting trusted domains
- Specifying trusted domains that are allowed access to the CIFS server
- Allowing trusted domains access to CIFS when setting an IDMAP backend to rid
- Allowing trusted domains access to CIFS when setting an IDMAP backend to ldap
- Allowing trusted domains access to CIFS when setting an IDMAP backend to hash
- Allowing trusted domains access to CIFS when setting an IDMAP backend to ad
- About configuring Windows Active Directory as an IDMAP backend for CIFS
- Configuring the Active Directory schema with CIFS-schema extensions
- Configuring the LDAP client for authentication using the CLI
- Setting Active Directory trusted domains
- About storing account information
- Storing user and group accounts
- Reconfiguring the CIFS service
- About mapping user names for CIFS/NFS sharing
- About the mapuser commands
- Adding, removing, or displaying the mapping between CIFS and NFS users
- Automatically mapping UNIX users from LDAP to Windows users
- About managing home directories
- About CIFS clustering modes
- About migrating CIFS shares and home directories
- Setting the CIFS aio_fork option
- About managing local users and groups
- Enabling CIFS data migration
- 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 troubleshooting
- Monitoring command activity
- Monitoring alerts
- About alert management
- Monitoring events
- Viewing reports
- Viewing cluster storage usage
- Viewing file system usage
- About event notifications
- About severity levels and filters
- About SNMP notifications
- Configuring a syslog server
- Displaying events on the console
- Appliance log files
- Configuring event notifications and audit logs
- Section VII. Provisioning and managing Access Appliance file systems
- Creating and maintaining file systems
- About creating and maintaining file systems
- About encryption at rest
- Considerations for creating a file system
- Best practices for creating file systems
- Choosing a file system layout type
- Determining the initial extent size for a file system
- About striping file systems
- About FastResync
- About fsck operation
- Enabling WORM on a file system
- Setting retention in files
- Setting WORM over NFS
- Manually setting WORM-retention on a file over CIFS
- About managing application I/O workloads using maximum IOPS settings
- Creating a file system
- Bringing the file system online or offline
- Listing all file systems and associated information
- Modifying a file system
- Managing a file system
- Destroying a file system
- Upgrading disk layout versions
- Creating and maintaining file systems
- Section VIII. Provisioning and managing Access Appliance shares
- Creating shares for applications
- Creating and maintaining NFS shares
- About NFS file sharing
- About the NFS shares
- Displaying file systems and snapshots that can be exported
- Exporting an NFS share
- Displaying exported directories
- About managing NFS shares using netgroups
- Unexporting a directory or deleting NFS options
- Exporting an NFS share for Kerberos authentication
- Mounting an NFS share with Kerberos security from the NFS client
- Exporting an NFS snapshot
- Creating and maintaining CIFS shares
- About managing CIFS shares
- About the CIFS shares
- Exporting a directory as a CIFS share
- Configuring a CIFS share as secondary storage for an Enterprise Vault store
- Exporting the same file system/directory as a different CIFS share
- About the CIFS export options
- Setting share properties
- Displaying CIFS share properties
- Hiding system files when adding a CIFS normal share
- Allowing specified users and groups access to the CIFS share
- Denying specified users and groups access to the CIFS share
- Exporting a CIFS snapshot
- Deleting a CIFS share
- Modifying a CIFS share
- Making a CIFS share shadow copy aware
- About managing CIFS shares for Enterprise Vault
- Integrating Access Appliance with Data Insight
- Section IX. Managing Access Appliance storage services
- Configuring episodic replication
- About Access Appliance episodic replication
- How Access Appliance Replication works
- Starting Access Appliance episodic replication
- Setting up communication between the source and the destination clusters
- Setting up the file systems to replicate
- Setting up files to exclude from an episodic replication unit
- Scheduling the episodic replication
- Defining what to replicate
- About the maximum number of parallel episodic replication jobs
- Managing an episodic replication job
- Replicating compressed data
- Displaying episodic replication job information and status
- Synchronizing an episodic replication job
- Behavior of the file systems on the episodic replication destination target
- Accessing file systems configured as episodic replication destinations
- Episodic replication job failover and failback
- Configuring continuous replication
- About Access Appliance continuous replication
- How Access Appliance continuous replication works
- Starting Access Appliance continuous replication
- Setting up communication between the source and the destination clusters
- Setting up the file system to replicate
- Managing continuous replication
- Displaying continuous replication information and status
- Unconfiguring continuous replication
- Preserving the file system on the destination cluster
- Continuous replication failover and failback
- Addition of multiple file systems to a Replicated Volume Group
- Using snapshots
- Using instant rollbacks
- About instant rollbacks
- Creating a space-optimized rollback
- Creating a full-sized rollback
- Listing Access Appliance instant rollbacks
- Restoring a file system from an instant rollback
- Refreshing an instant rollback from a file system
- Bringing an instant rollback online
- Taking an instant rollback offline
- Destroying an instant rollback
- Creating a shared cache object for Access Appliance instant rollbacks
- Listing cache objects
- Destroying a cache object of a Access Appliance instant rollback
- Configuring episodic replication
- Section X. Reference
- Index
Setting up files to exclude from an episodic replication unit
Once you have set up the file systems you want to replicate, you can define a set of directories or files to exclude from an episodic replication unit. This step is optional. The exclunit entry has higher priority over the repunit entry. If any file name matches the exclunit entry, the file is not replicated to the target.
To work with exclusion units:
Use the Replication> episodic exclunit create command to name the excluding unit and configure the directories and files you want to exclude from an episodic replication. The excluding unit you create can be used in multiple episodic replication jobs. A single excluding unit can span across multiple directories.
Use the Replication> episodic job exclude command to add the excluding unit to an episodic replication job. You cannot add an excluding unit to a job that is active. You must disable the job first.
You can use the following commands: Replication> episodic exclunit add_entry, Replication> episodic exclunit modify_entry, and Replication> episodic exclunit remove_entry to make changes to an excluding unit, provided the excluding unit you want to modify is not included in any job definitions.
Use the Replication> episodic job show command to show which excluding units are configured for a job. Use the Replication> episodic exclunit show command to show the names and contents of all excluding units that are defined for the cluster.
Use the Replication> episodic exclunit destroy command to permanently delete the excluding unit. You can only destroy an excluding unit if the excluding unit you want to destroy is not included in any job definitions.
If an episodic replication is defined for a directory, an excluding unit should be a subset of that directory. The excluding unit cannot be the same directory as the episodic replication and it cannot be a parent directory of the episodic replication. For example, if a episodic replication is configured for fs1/dir1/dir2, a valid exclusion could be dir1/dir2/file or dir1/dir2/dir3, but not /dir1 (the parent directory for the episodic replication).
By default, Access Appliance excludes some common directories and files from all episodic replication units. These directories and files include:
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In addition, you can use the Replication> episodic exclunit commands to specify additional directories and files to exclude.
The directories and files you specify for an excluding unit are applied based on the overall definition of the episodic replication. For example, an episodic replication job that contains an fs1 episodic replication unit and an dir3 excluding unit, replicates all the files in fs1, except for the files in fs1/dir3.
To create an excluding unit:
- To create an excluding unit, enter the following:
Replication> episodic exclunit create exclunit_name exclunit_entry[,exclunit_entry,..]
exclunit_name
Enter the name of the excluding unit.
exclunit_entry
Enter the comma-separated list of directories and files you want to exclude from an episodic replication.
- To confirm the creation of the excluding unit enter the following:
Replication> episodic exclunit show verbose
You can use the Replication> episodic exclunit add_entry, Replication> episodic exclunit modify_entry, Replication> episodic exclunit remove_entry, and Replication> episodic exclunit destroy commands to manage your excluding units.
Note:
The Replication> episodic exclunit add_entry, Replication> episodic exclunit modify_entry, Replication> episodic exclunit remove_entry, and Replication> episodic exclunit destroy operations are not allowed for excluding units that are included in any job definitions.