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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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