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
Managing the LUNs
To create a LUN with the specified name and size
- To create a LUN with the specified name and size on the specified file system, enter the following:
Target> iscsi lun create lun-name target-name size option=dense|sparse
lun-name
Name of the LUN which is to be created on the store that is associated with an iSCSI target.
target-name
Name of the iSCSI target at which SCSI LUNs are available. target-name should conform to the naming rules defined in RFC3721.
size
Size of the LUN that you want to create.
option
Name of the LUN type such as Dense or Sparse. By default, Sparse is selected.
To destroy a specific LUN
- To destroy a specific LUN, enter the following:
Target> iscsi lun destroy lun-name target-name [force]
lun-name
Name of the LUN which is to be destroyed from an iSCSI target.
target-name
Name of the iSCSI target at which SCSI LUNs are available. target-name should conform to the naming rules defined in RFC3721.
Note:
You can use this command to destroy a clone of a specified LUN as well.
To list the details of all the LUNs present in all targets
- To list the details of all the LUNs present in all targets, enter the following:
Target> iscsi lun list
To list the details of all the LUNs present in a specific target
- To list the details of all the LUNs present in a specific target, enter the following:
Target> iscsi lun list target-name
target-name
Name of the iSCSI target at which SCSI LUNs are available. target-name should conform to the naming rules defined in RFC3721.
To grow LUN size to specified size
- To grow LUN size to specified size, enter the following:
Target> target iscsi lun growto lun-name target-name size
lun-name
Name of the LUN for which size is to be increased on the store that is associated with an iSCSI target.
target-name
Name of the iSCSI target at which SCSI LUNs are available. target-name should conform to the naming rules defined in RFC3721.
size
A new size that is to be specified for the LUN.
To shrink LUN size to specified size
- To shrink LUN size to specified size, enter the following:
Target> target iscsi lun shrinkto lun-name target-name size
lun-name
Name of the LUN for which, size is to be decreased on the store that is associated with an iSCSI target.
target-name
Name of the iSCSI target at which SCSI LUNs are available. target-name should conform to the naming rules defined in RFC3721.
size
A new size that is to be specified for the LUN.
To create a clone of a specified LUN
- To create a clone of LUN, enter the following:
Target> iscsi lun clone create lun-name clone-name
lun-name
Name of the LUN for which a clone is to be created on the store that is associated with an iSCSI target.
clone-name
Name of the clone of a LUN.
To list details of all clones
- To list details of all clones, enter the following:
Target> iscsi lun clone list
To list details of the specified clone
- To list details of the specified clone, enter the following:
Target> iscsi lun clone list clone-name
To create a snapshot of LUN
- To create a snapshot of LUN, enter the following:
Target> iscsi lun snapshot create lun-name snapshot-name
lun-name
Name of the LUN for which a snapshot is to be created on the store that is associated with an iSCSI target.
snapshot-name
Name of the snapshot of a LUN.
To destroy a snapshot of LUN
- To destroy a snapshot of LUN, enter the following:
Target> iscsi lun snapshot destroy lun-name snapshot-name
lun-name
Name of the LUN for which a snapshot is to be destroyed from an iSCSI target.
snapshot-name
Name of the snapshot of a LUN.
To restore a snapshot of specified LUN
- To restore a snapshot of specified LUN, enter the following:
Target> iscsi lun snapshot restore lun-name snapshot-name
lun-name
Name of the LUN for which a snapshot is to be restored on the store that is associated with an iSCSI target.
snapshot-name
Name of the snapshot of a LUN.
To list details of all the snapshots
- To list details of all the snapshots, enter the following:
Target> iscsi lun snapshot list
To list details of a specified snapshot
- To list details of a specified snapshot, enter the following:
Target> iscsi lun snapshot list snapshot-name
where snapshot-name is the snapshot name for which details are displayed.