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HP IBRIX 9000 Storage File System User
Guide

Abstract

This guide describes how to configure and manage IBRIX 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, 9720 Storage, and 9730 Storage. For the latest IBRIX guides, browse to

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

HP Part Number: TA768-96076
Published: December 2012
Edition: 9

Table of contents

Document Outline

HP IBRIX 9000 Storage File System User Guide
Contents
1 Using IBRIX 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 IBRIX 9000 clients
- Using Export Control
3 Configuring quotas
- How quotas work
- Enabling quotas on a file system and setting grace periods
- Setting quotas for users, groups, and directories
- 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
- 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 SMB, 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 IBRIX software
- Configuring authentication from the GUI
- Viewing or changing authentication settings
- Configuring authentication from the CLI
7 Using SMB
- Configuring file serving 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
- Consolidating SMB servers with common share names
- SMB clients
- Permissions in a cross-protocol SMB environment
- Troubleshooting SMB
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
- HTTP share types
- Process checklist for creating HTTP shares
- Best practices for configuring HTTP
- Managing HTTP from the GUI
  - Configuring HTTP shares
  - 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
- Overview
  - Data retention
    - WORM and WORM-retained files
    - Data retention attributes for a file system
  - Data validation scans
- Enabling file systems for data retention
  - 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 data retention reports
  - Generating data retention reports from the CLI
- Using hard links with WORM files
- Using remote replication
- Backup support for data retention
- Troubleshooting data retention
13 Express Query
- Managing the metadata service
- Metadata and synchronized server times
- Managing auditing
  - Audit log
  - Audit log reports
- StoreAll REST API
14 Configuring Antivirus support
- Adding or removing external virus scan engines
- Enabling or disabling Antivirus on IBRIX file systems
- Updating Antivirus definitions
- Configuring Antivirus settings
- Managing Antivirus scans
  - Starting or scheduling Antivirus scans
  - Viewing, pausing, resuming, or stopping Antivirus scan tasks
- Viewing Antivirus statistics
- Antivirus quarantines and software snapshots
15 Creating IBRIX 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
16 Creating block snapshots
- Setting up snapshots
- Automated block snapshots
- Managing block snapshots
- Accessing snapshot file systems
- Troubleshooting block snapshots
17 Using data tiering
- Creating and managing data tiers
- Viewing tier assignments and managing segments
- Viewing data tiering rules
- Running a migration task
- Configuring tiers and migrating data using the CLI
- Changing the tiering configuration with the CLI
- Writing tiering rules
18 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
19 Support and other resources
- Contacting HP
- Related information
- HP websites
- Subscription service
20 Documentation feedback
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