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HP X9000 File Serving Software File System
User Guide

Abstract

This guide describes how to configure and manage X9000 Software file systems and how to use NFS, CIFS, FTP, and HTTP
to access file system data. The guide also describes the following file system features: quotas, remote replication, snapshots,
data tiering, and file allocation. The guide is intended for system administrators managing X9300 Network Storage Gateway
systems, X9320 Network Storage Systems, and X9720 Network Storage Systems. For the latest X9000 guides, browse to

http://www.hp.com/support/manuals

. In the storage section, select NAS Systems and then select HP X9000 Network Storage

Systems from the IBRIX Storage Systems section.

HP Part Number: TA768-96043
Published: September 2011
Edition: Seventh

Table of contents

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
- File limit for directories
- Managing mountpoints and mount/unmount operations
- 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
- 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
- Extending a file system
- Rebalancing segments in a file system
- Disabling 32-bit mode on a file system
- Deleting file systems and file system components
- 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
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
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
  - Managing CIFS shares with Microsoft Management Console
- 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
- Troubleshooting CIFS
8 Using FTP
- Best practices for configuring FTP
- Managing configuration profiles
- Managing FTP shares
- 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
- Managing virtual hosts
- Managing HTTP shares
- 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
- Configuring the target export for replication to a remote cluster
  - GUI procedure
  - CLI procedure
- Configuring and managing replication tasks on the GUI
- Configuring and managing replication tasks from the CLI
- 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
- Running data validation scans
- 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
- Moving files between snap trees
- Removing snapshot authorization for a snap tree
- Backing up snapshots
14 Creating block snapshots
- Setting up snapshots
- Automated block snapshots
- Managing block 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
- Managing a tiered file system and tiering policy
- Writing tiering rules
16 Using file allocation
- Overview
- 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
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