Document Outline

• X9000 File Serving Software File System User Guide
• Contents
• 1 Using X9000 Software file systems
  • File system organization and access
  • File system building blocks
  • Configuring file systems
  • Accessing file systems
• 2 Creating and mounting file systems
  • Creating a file system
    • Using 32-bit or 64-bit mode
    • Using the New Filesystem Wizard
    • Creating a file system using the CLI
  • Spillover files
  • Managing mountpoints and mount/unmount operations
    • GUI procedures
    • CLI procedures
      • Creating mountpoints
      • Deleting mountpoints
      • Viewing mountpoint information
      • Mounting a file system
      • Unmounting a file system
    • Mounting and unmounting file systems locally on Linux/Windows X9000 clients
  • Limiting file system access for X9000 clients
  • Using Export Control
• 3 Setting up quotas
  • How quotas work
  • Enabling quotas on a file system
  • Setting user and group quotas
  • Setting directory tree quotas
  • Using a quotas file
    • Importing quotas from a file
    • Exporting quotas to a file
    • Format of the quotas file
  • Using online quota check
  • Configuring email notifications for quota events
  • Deleting quotas
    • Deleting user and group quotas
    • Deleting directory tree quotas or usage limits
• 4 Maintaining file systems
  • Viewing information about file systems and components
    • Viewing physical volume information
    • Viewing volume group information
    • Viewing logical volume information
    • Viewing file system information
      • Lost+found directory
    • Viewing disk space information from a Linux X9000 client
  • Extending a file system
  • Rebalancing segments in a file system
    • How rebalancing works
    • Rebalancing segments on the management console GUI
    • Rebalancing segments from the CLI
    • Tracking the progress of a rebalance task
    • Viewing the status of rebalance tasks
    • Stopping rebalance tasks
  • Disabling 32-bit mode on a file system
  • Deleting file systems and file system components
    • Deleting a file system
    • Deleting segments, volume groups, and physical volumes
    • Deleting file serving nodes and X9000 clients
  • Checking and repairing file systems
    • Analyzing the integrity of a file system on all segments
    • Clearing the INFSCK flag on a file system
  • Troubleshooting file systems
    • ibrix_pv -a discovers too many or too few devices
    • Cannot mount on an X9000 client
    • NFS clients cannot access an exported file system
    • User quota usage data is not being updated
    • SegmentNotAvailable is reported
    • SegmentRejected is reported
• 5 Using NFS
  • Exporting a file system
    • Unexporting a file system
  • Autoconnecting NFS clients
    • Adding mount points to the autoconnect table
    • Deleting mount points from the autoconnect table
  • Setting up NFS clients
• 6 Configuring authentication for CIFS, FTP, and HTTP
  • Selecting an authentication method
  • X9000 management console requirement for Local Users authentication
  • Configuring local groups and local users
    • Configuring local group accounts
    • Configuring local users
• 7 Using CIFS
  • Configuring file serving nodes for CIFS
  • Starting or stopping the CIFS service and viewing CIFS statistics
  • CIFS shares
    • Managing CIFS shares with the X9000 management console GUI or CLI
      • Configuring SMB signing
      • Adding a CIFS share
      • Modifying a CIFS share
      • Deleting a CIFS share
    • Managing CIFS shares with Microsoft Management Console
      • Connecting to cluster nodes
      • Saving MMC settings
      • Granting share management privileges
      • Adding CIFS shares
      • Deleting CIFS shares
  • Linux static user mapping with Active Directory
    • Configuring Active Directory
    • Assigning attributes
  • Consolidating SMB servers with common share names
  • CIFS clients
    • Differences in locking behavior
  • Permissions in a cross-protocol CIFS environment
    • How the CIFS server handles UIDs and GIDs
    • Permissions, UIDs/GIDs, and ACLs
      • Pre-existing directories and files
      • New directories and files
    • Changing the way CIFS inherits permissions on files accessed from Linux applications
    • X9000 Windows Clients and Windows ACLs
  • Troubleshooting CIFS
• 8 Using FTP
  • Best practices for configuring FTP
  • Managing configuration profiles
    • Adding a configuration profile
    • Modifying a configuration profile
    • Viewing configuration profiles
    • Deleting a configuration profile
  • Managing FTP shares
    • Adding an FTP share
    • Modifying an FTP share
    • Viewing FTP shares
    • Deleting an FTP share
  • The vsftpd service
  • Starting or stopping the FTP service manually
  • Accessing shares
• 9 Using HTTP
  • Best practices for configuring HTTP
  • Configuring HTTP with the HTTP Wizard
  • Managing configuration profiles
    • Adding a configuration profile from the CLI
    • Modifying a configuration profile
    • Viewing configuration profiles
    • Deleting a configuration profile
  • Managing virtual hosts
    • Adding a virtual host
    • Modifying a virtual host
    • Viewing a virtual host
    • Deleting a virtual host
  • Managing HTTP shares
    • Adding an HTTP share
    • Modifying an HTTP share
    • Viewing HTTP shares
    • Deleting an HTTP share
  • Starting or stopping the HTTP service manually
  • Accessing shares
• 10 Managing SSL certificates
  • Creating an SSL certificate
  • Adding a certificate to the cluster
  • Exporting a certificate
  • Deleting a certificate
• 11 Using remote replication
  • Overview
    • Continuous or run-once replication modes
    • Remote cluster or intracluster
    • Many-to-many or many-to-one replications
  • Configuring the target for remote replication
    • GUI procedure
    • CLI procedure
      • Registering source and target clusters
      • Exporting the target file system
      • Identifying host and NIC preferences on the target cluster
  • Configuring and managing replication tasks on the GUI
  • Configuring and managing replication tasks from the CLI
    • Starting a remote replication task to a remote cluster
    • Starting an intra-cluster remote replication task
    • Starting a run-once directory replication task
    • Stopping a remote replication task
    • Pausing a remote replication task
    • Resuming a remote replication task
    • Querying remote replication tasks
    • Viewing replication status and activity
  • Configuring remote failover/failback
  • Troubleshooting remote replication
• 12 Creating snapshots
  • Setting up snapshots
    • Preparing the snapshot partition
    • Registering for snapshots
    • Discovering LUNs in the array
    • Reviewing snapshot storage allocation
  • Automated snapshots
    • Creating automated snapshots using the GUI
    • Creating automated snapshots from the CLI
      • Creating a snapshot scheme
      • Scheduling and starting automated snapshots
    • Other automated snapshot procedures
      • Modifying an automated snapshot scheme
      • Viewing automated snapshot schemes
      • Deleting an automated snapshot scheme
  • Managing snapshots
    • Creating a snapshot
    • Mounting a snapshot
    • Recovering system resources on snapshot failure
    • Deleting snapshots
    • Viewing snapshot information
      • Listing snapshot information for all hosts
      • Listing detailed information about snapshots
  • Accessing snapshot file systems
  • Troubleshooting snapshots
• 13 Using data tiering
  • Overview
    • Moving files between tiers
    • Writing a rule to implement a policy
  • Tiered file systems
    • Creating a file system that uses data tiering
    • Expanding a file system
    • Allocation policy
  • Managing a tiered file system and tiering policy
    • Assigning segments to tiers
    • Removing tier assignments
    • Deleting a tier
    • Listing tier information
    • Listing tiering policy information
    • Deleting a tiering policy rule
    • Starting and stopping a tiering operation
    • Reviewing tiering job status
  • Writing tiering rules
    • Operators and date/time qualifiers
    • Rule keywords
    • Migration rule examples
    • Ambiguous rules
• 14 Using file allocation
  • Overview
    • File allocation policies
    • How file allocation settings are evaluated
    • Using hostgroups for file allocation settings
    • When file allocation settings take effect on X9000 clients
    • Guidelines for using file allocation CLI commands
  • Setting file and directory allocation policies
    • Setting a file allocation policy
    • Setting a directory allocation policy
  • Setting segment preferences
    • Creating a pool of preferred segments
    • Restoring the default segment preference
  • Tuning allocation policy settings
  • Listing allocation policies
• 15 Support and other resources
  • Contacting HP
  • Related information
  • HP websites
  • Subscription service
• Glossary
• Index