HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share - Manual (Page 3)

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About this guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xi
Safety considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
1 Overview
1.1 Product overview ...................................................................................................................... 1-2
1.1.1 Overview of the Lustre file system........................................................................................... 1-2
1.1.2 Overview of HP SFS............................................................................................................. 1-3
1.1.3 HP SFS configurations .......................................................................................................... 1-4
1.1.3.1 Object Storage Servers.................................................................................................... 1-4
1.1.3.2 Storage.......................................................................................................................... 1-5
1.1.3.2.1 EVA4000 storage arrays............................................................................................. 1-5
1.1.3.2.2 SFS20 storage arrays ................................................................................................. 1-6
1.1.3.3 Network connections ....................................................................................................... 1-7
1.1.3.3.1 Site network and interconnect ...................................................................................... 1-7
1.1.3.3.2 Management network ................................................................................................. 1-8
1.2 Supported operating system software.......................................................................................... 1-8
1.3 Supported hardware................................................................................................................. 1-9
2 The sfsmgr utility
2.1 Overview ................................................................................................................................ 2-2
2.2 Starting the SFS CLI .................................................................................................................. 2-2
2.3 Running sfsmgr commands......................................................................................................... 2-3
2.3.1 Running sfsmgr commands at the command line ...................................................................... 2-4
2.4 Troubleshooting the sfsmgr command.......................................................................................... 2-4
3 Operating the system
3.1 Booting the system.................................................................................................................... 3-2
3.2 Shutting down the system........................................................................................................... 3-4
3.3 Booting a server ....................................................................................................................... 3-4
3.4 Booting multiple servers............................................................................................................. 3-5
3.5 Shutting down an Object Storage Server or the MDS server........................................................... 3-5
3.6 Shutting down the administration server ...................................................................................... 3-6
3.7 Stopping a file system ............................................................................................................... 3-7
3.8 Starting a file system ................................................................................................................. 3-8
3.8.1 Responding to formatting messages from the start filesystem command ....................................... 3-9
3.9 Unconfiguring storage arrays................................................................................................... 3-10
3.9.1 Unconfiguring EVA4000 arrays attached to the administration and MDS servers....................... 3-10
3.9.2 Unconfiguring EVA4000 arrays attached to Object Storage Servers ........................................ 3-11
3.9.3 Unconfiguring SFS20 arrays attached to the administration and MDS servers............................ 3-12
3.9.4 Unconfiguring SFS20 arrays attached to Object Storage Servers ............................................. 3-13
3.10 Deleting SFS20 array information from the database .................................................................. 3-15
3.11 Managing licenses ................................................................................................................. 3-15
3.11.1 Understanding license file concepts...................................................................................... 3-15
3.11.2 Viewing license information ................................................................................................ 3-18
3.11.3 Adding or removing licenses ............................................................................................... 3-18
3.11.4 Licensing additional storage capacity to the system................................................................ 3-19
3.11.5 Upgrading from an SFSMDSOST license .............................................................................. 3-21
3.11.6 Deleting all licenses............................................................................................................ 3-21
3.12 Managing remote access ........................................................................................................ 3-21
3.12.1 Creating authorizations ...................................................................................................... 3-22
3.12.2 Deleting authorizations....................................................................................................... 3-22
3.12.3 Viewing authorizations ....................................................................................................... 3-23
3.12.4 Setting up ssh access to the system alias ............................................................................... 3-23
3.13 Locating servers and SFS20 arrays ........................................................................................... 3-24
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