HP StoreAll Storage User Manual

Hp storeall os user guide

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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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