Document Outline

• HP 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
  • File limit for directories
  • 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 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 and setting grace periods
  • 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
  • Troubleshooting quotas
• 4 Maintaining file systems
  • Best practices for file system performance
  • 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
  • Using case-insensitive file systems
    • Setting case insensitivity for all users (NFS/Linux/Windows)
    • Viewing the current setting for case insensitivity
    • Clearing case insensitivity (setting to case sensitive) for all users (NFS/Linux/Windows)
    • Log files
      • Displaying and terminating a case insensitivity task
    • Case insensitivity and operations affecting directories
• 6 Configuring authentication for CIFS, FTP, and HTTP
  • Selecting an authentication method
  • 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
  • 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
    • Tuning the socket read block size and file write block size
    • 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
  • Configuring Windows clients to access HTTP WebDAV shares
  • Troubleshooting HTTP
• 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 replications
    • Many-to-many or many-to-one replications
    • File system snapshot replication
  • Configuring the target export for replication to a remote cluster
    • GUI procedure
    • CLI procedure
      • Registering source and target clusters
      • Creating the target export
      • Identifying server assignments for remote replication
  • Configuring and managing replication tasks on the GUI
    • Viewing replication tasks
    • Starting a replication task
    • Pausing or resuming a replication task
    • Stopping a replication task
  • Configuring and managing replication tasks from the CLI
    • Starting a remote replication task to a remote cluster
    • Starting an intracluster 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
  • Replicating WORM/retained files
  • Configuring remote failover/failback
  • Troubleshooting remote replication
• 12 Managing data retention and validation
  • Overview
    • Data retention
      • Determining the files to manage with data retention
      • Retention profiles and retained files
    • Data validation scans
  • Enabling file systems for data retention and validation
    • Viewing the retention profile for a file system
    • Changing the retention profile for a file system
  • Managing WORM and retained files
    • Creating WORM and WORM-retained files
    • Viewing the retention information for a file
    • File administration
      • Setting or removing a legal hold
      • Changing a retention period
      • Removing the retention period
      • Deleting a file administratively
  • Running data validation scans
    • Scheduling a validation scan
    • Starting an on-demand validation scan
    • Viewing, stopping, or pausing a scan
    • Viewing validation scan results
    • Viewing and comparing hash sums for a file
    • Handling validation scan errors
  • Using hard links with WORM files
  • Using remote replication
  • Backup support for data retention
  • Troubleshooting data retention
• 13 Creating X9000 software snapshots
  • File system limits for snap trees and snapshots
  • Configuring snapshot directory trees and schedules
    • Modifying a snapshot schedule
  • Managing software snapshots
    • Taking an on-demand snapshot
    • Determining space used by snapshots
    • Accessing snapshot directories
    • Restoring files from snapshots
    • Deleting snapshots
    • Reclaiming file system space previously used for snapshots
  • Moving files between snap trees
  • Removing snapshot authorization for a snap tree
  • Backing up snapshots
• 14 Creating block snapshots
  • Setting up snapshots
    • Preparing the snapshot partition
    • Registering for snapshots
    • Discovering LUNs in the array
    • Reviewing snapshot storage allocation
  • Automated block snapshots
    • Creating automated snapshots using the GUI
    • Creating an automated snapshot scheme from the CLI
    • Other automated snapshot procedures
      • Modifying an automated snapshot scheme
      • Viewing automated snapshot schemes
      • Deleting an automated snapshot scheme
  • Managing block snapshots
    • Creating an on-demand snapshot
    • Mounting or unmounting 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 block snapshots
• 15 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
• 16 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
• 17 Support and other resources
  • Contacting HP
  • Related information
  • HP websites
  • Subscription service
• Glossary
• Index