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HP IBRIX X9000 Network Storage System File System User Guide
Contents
1 Using X9000 Software file systems
- File system operations
- 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
- Using case-insensitive file systems
6 Configuring authentication for CIFS, FTP, and HTTP
- Using Active Directory with LDAP ID mapping
- Using LDAP as the primary authentication method
  - Requirements for LDAP users and groups
  - Configuring LDAP for X9000 software
- Configuring authentication from the GUI
- Viewing or changing authentication settings
- Configuring authentication from the CLI
7 Using CIFS
- Configuring file serving nodes for CIFS
- Starting or stopping the CIFS service and viewing CIFS statistics
- Monitoring CIFS services
- CIFS shares
- Linux static user mapping with Active Directory
  - Configuring Active Directory
  - Assigning attributes
- Consolidating SMB servers with common share names
- CIFS clients
- Permissions in a cross-protocol CIFS environment
- Troubleshooting CIFS
8 Using FTP
- Best practices for configuring FTP
- Managing FTP from the GUI
  - Configuring FTP
  - Managing the FTP configuration
- Managing FTP from the CLI
  - Configuring FTP
  - Managing the FTP configuration
- The vsftpd service
- Starting or stopping the FTP service manually
- Accessing shares
9 Using HTTP
- Best practices for configuring HTTP
- Managing HTTP from the GUI
  - Configuring HTTP
  - Managing the HTTP configuration
- Tuning the socket read block size and file write block size
- Managing HTTP from the CLI
  - Configuring HTTP
  - Managing the HTTP configuration
- 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
- 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
- Creating data retention reports
  - Generating and managing reports
  - Generating reports from the CLI
- Using hard links with WORM files
- Using remote replication
- Backup support for data retention
- Troubleshooting data retention
13 Configuring Antivirus support
- Adding or removing external virus scan engines
- Enabling or disabling Antivirus on X9000 file systems
- Updating Antivirus definitions
- Configuring Antivirus settings
- Viewing Antivirus statistics
- Antivirus quarantines and software snapshots
14 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
- Backing up snapshots
15 Creating block snapshots
- Setting up snapshots
- Automated block snapshots
- Managing block snapshots
- Accessing snapshot file systems
- Troubleshooting block snapshots
16 Using data tiering
- Configuring data tiers
  - Assigning segments to tiers
  - Defining the primary tier
- Creating a tiering policy for a file system
- Running a migration task
- Changing the tiering configuration with the GUI
- Configuring tiers and migrating data using the CLI
- Changing the tiering configuration with the CLI
- Writing tiering rules
17 Using file allocation
- Overview
- Setting file and directory allocation policies
  - Setting file and directory allocation policies from the CLI
- Setting segment preferences
  - Creating a pool of preferred segments from the CLI
  - Restoring the default segment preference
- Tuning allocation policy settings
- Listing allocation policies
18 Support and other resources
- Contacting HP
- Related information
- HP websites
- Subscription service
19 Documentation feedback
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