HP StoreAll Storage User Manual

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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
guides, browse to

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

HP Part Number: TA768-96306
Published: February 2014
Edition: 12

Table of contents

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HP StoreAll OS User Guide
Contents
1 Using StoreAll 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 StoreAll clients
- Using Export Control
3 Configuring quotas
- How quotas work
- Enabling quotas on a file system and setting grace periods
- Enabling and disabling quotas
- 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
  - Setting case insensitivity for all users (NFS/Linux/Windows)
  - Case insensitivity and operations affecting directories
6 Configuring authentication for SMB, FTP, and HTTP
- Overview
- Using LDAP as the primary authentication method
  - Requirements for LDAP users and groups
  - Configuring LDAP for StoreAll software
- 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
  - Configuring HP-SMB username 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
- Best practices for configuring FTP
- Configuring FTP
- Managing FTP from the CLI
- The vsftpd service
- Starting or stopping the FTP service manually
- Accessing shares
9 Using Object Store
- Creating an Object Store
- Permission levels
- Creating administrator groups and assigning users
  - Add users to an administrator group using the CLI
  - Removing administrative privileges from a user using the CLI
- Changing group administrative privileges
- Creating tokens for authentication
  - Keystone token flush
- Managing non-administrative accounts
  - Assigning non-administrative privileges with read-write access to a container
  - Assigning non-administrative privileges with read access to a container
- Using cURL commands for managing Object Store
- Synchronization of containers
- Managing and monitoring Object Store
- Troubleshooting Object Store
  - Understanding and troubleshooting HTTP response codes
  - During heavy load of object uploads to the StoreAll Object Store, an object handoff may occur
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
  - Durability
- 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
  - Durability on disk
  - Tutorial for 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
- Component overview
- File content transfer
- Custom metadata assignment
  - Upload custom metadata (add or replace)
  - Delete custom metadata
- Metadata queries
- Retention properties assignment
  - HTTP syntax
- HTTP Status Codes
13 Managing SSL certificates
- Creating an SSL certificate
- Adding a certificate to the cluster
- Exporting a certificate
- Deleting a certificate
14 Using continuous remote replication
- Overview
- Configuring the target export for replication to a remote cluster
  - Registering the target cluster
  - Viewing remote replication exports
- 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
  - Data retention
    - WORM and WORM-retained files
    - Data retention attributes for a file system
  - Data validation scans
- 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
  - 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
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)
17 Generating reports
- Retention Expiration reports
  - Report views
    - An example of a report with slice type log selected
    - An example of a report with slice type equal selected
- Last Validation reports
- File Size Distribution reports
- File Extension reports
18 Obtaining performance statistics
- Generating performance reports
- Category descriptions
- Fusion Manager failover and the Performance Statistics tool configuration
- Checking the status of Performance Statistics tool processes
- Controlling Performance Statistics tool processes
- Troubleshooting the Performance Statistics tool
- Log files
19 Configuring Antivirus support
- Adding or removing external virus scan engines
- Enabling or disabling Antivirus on StoreAll file systems
- 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
20 Creating StoreAll 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
21 Creating block snapshots
- Overview
- Planning for snapshots
- Automated block snapshots
- Managing block snapshots
- Accessing snapshot file systems
- Troubleshooting block snapshots
22 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
- Writing tiering rules
23 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
24 Support and other resources
- Contacting HP
- Related information
- HP websites
- Subscription service
25 Documentation feedback
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