HP StoreAll Storage User Manual
Hp storeall os user guide
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HP StoreAll OS User Guide
Abstract
This guide describes how to configure and manage StoreAll software file systems and how to use NFS, SMB, FTP, and HTTP
to access file system data. The guide also describes the following file system features: quotas, remote replication, snapshots,
data retention and validation, data tiering, and file allocation. The guide is intended for system administrators managing 9300
Storage Gateway, 9320 Storage, X9720 Storage, 9730 Storage, 8800 Storage, and 8200 Storage. For the latest StoreAll
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HP Part Number: TA768-96306
Published: February 2014
Edition: 12
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- HP StoreAll OS User Guide
- Contents
- 1 Using StoreAll software file systems
- 2 Creating and mounting file systems
- 3 Configuring quotas
- 4 Maintaining file systems
- Best practices for file system performance
- Viewing information about file systems and components
- Extending a file system
- Rebalancing segments in a file system
- Deleting file systems and file system components
- Checking and repairing file systems
- Troubleshooting file systems
- Deleting file systems that are enabled for data retention
- Segment of a file system is accidently deleted
- ibrix_pv -a discovers too many or too few devices
- Cannot mount on a StoreAll client
- NFS clients cannot access an exported file system
- User quota usage data is not being updated
- File system alert is displayed after a segment is evacuated
- SegmentNotAvailable is reported
- SegmentRejected is reported
- Segment evacuation task might fail after an upgrade
- Query freshness affected in configuration of a large file system with light activity
- 5 Using NFS
- 6 Configuring authentication for SMB, FTP, and HTTP
- Overview
- Using LDAP as the primary authentication method
- Using Active Directory with LDAP ID mapping
- Configuring NIS
- Configuring authentication from the StoreAll Management Console
- Viewing or changing authentication settings
- Provider stacking
- Configuring authentication from the CLI
- Configuring shell access
- Configuring delegated users for an Active Directory domain
- 7 Using SMB
- Configuring nodes for SMB
- Starting or stopping the SMB service and viewing SMB statistics
- Monitoring SMB services
- SMB shares
- Linux static user mapping with Active Directory
- HP-SMB user name mapping
- Consolidating SMB servers with common share names
- SMB clients
- Permissions in a cross-protocol SMB environment
- Using Robocopy on a data retention-enabled HP-SMB share
- Troubleshooting SMB
- 8 Using FTP
- 9 Using Object Store
- Creating an Object Store
- Permission levels
- Creating administrator groups and assigning users
- Changing group administrative privileges
- Creating tokens for authentication
- Managing non-administrative accounts
- Using cURL commands for managing Object Store
- Finding the Fusion Manager user VIF
- Keystone ports
- Format of the endpoint
- Creating containers
- Upload an object to a container
- Posting metadata to an object
- Posting metadata to a container
- Downloading an object from a container
- Viewing the contents of a container
- Deleting an object from a container
- Deleting a container
- Viewing a status of a user account
- Listing tenants
- Synchronization of containers
- Managing and monitoring Object Store
- Troubleshooting Object Store
- 10 Using HTTP
- Overview
- HTTP share types
- Uses for the StoreAll REST API
- Features for each file share mode
- Best practices for HTTP REST API shares
- Obtaining the HP StoreAll REST API Sample Client Application
- Checklist for creating HTTP shares
- Best practices for configuring HTTP
- Object mode shares and data retention
- Creating HTTP shares from the HP StoreAll Management Console
- Tuning the socket read block size and file write block size
- Starting or stopping the HTTP service manually
- Accessing standard and file-compatible mode HTTP shares
- Configuring Windows clients to access HTTP WebDAV shares
- Troubleshooting HTTP
- 11 HTTP-REST API object mode shares
- Terminology for StoreAll REST API object mode
- Using the HTTP StoreAll REST API object mode
- Viewing the list of containers for an account
- Viewing the contents of a container
- Finding the corresponding object ID from a hash name
- Finding the corresponding hash name from an object ID
- Commands for object mode
- 12 HTTP-REST API file-compatible mode shares
- 13 Managing SSL certificates
- 14 Using continuous remote replication
- Overview
- Configuring the target export for replication to a remote cluster
- Configuring and managing replication tasks
- Replicating WORM/retained files
- Configuring remote failover/failback
- Enabling and disabling custom metadata replication
- Understanding the ibrcfrworker log file (ibrcfrworker.log)
- Troubleshooting remote replication
- Troubleshooting custom metadata replication
- 15 Managing data retention
- Overview
- Configuring file systems for WORM/data retention
- Managing WORM and retained files
- How autocommit and data retention are calculated
- Running data validation scans
- Creating data retention reports
- Using hard links with WORM files
- Using remote replication
- Backup support for data retention
- Troubleshooting data retention
- 16 Express Query
- Managing the metadata service
- Metadata and synchronized server times
- Managing auditing
- Freshness
- Truncated path names
- Filesystem Metadata Cleaner
- Online Metadata Synchronizer
- Express Query and special files
- Express Query Windows Search Integration (EQWSI)
- Requirements for creating an EQWSI-enabled HTTP share or enabling EQWSI on a pre-existing HTTP share
- Enabling EQWSI on a pre-existing HTTP share
- Requirements for creating a Windows Explorer Search Plug-in
- Creating a Windows Explorer Search Plug-in
- Requirements for EQWSI queries
- Running an EQWSI query
- Description of the data displayed in the Windows Explorer for EQWSI queries
- Download or browse a file listed by an EQWSI query
- HTTP 404 error page displayed after double-clicking a file or directory listed by an EQWSI search
- 17 Generating reports
- 18 Obtaining performance statistics
- 19 Configuring Antivirus support
- 20 Creating StoreAll software snapshots
- File system limits for snap trees and snapshots
- Configuring snapshot directory trees and schedules
- Managing software snapshots
- Moving files between snap trees
- Backing up snapshots
- 21 Creating block snapshots
- 22 Using data tiering
- 23 Using file allocation
- 24 Support and other resources
- 25 Documentation feedback
- Glossary
- Index