Access Appliance Online Help
- Getting started
- About Access Appliance
- Enabling certificate-based authentication in Access Appliance
- Configuring storage for LTR
- About the dashboard
- Setting up the storage type for provisioning
- About the CIFS shares
- About managing CIFS shares for Enterprise Vault
- About the NFS shares
- About an iSCSI target
- Creating an iSCSI target and provisioning LUNs
- About S3 buckets for NetBackup
- Using the Access Appliance product documentation
- Changing your password
- Managing storage
- Managing file sharing services
- Monitoring and troubleshooting
- Provisioning and managing file systems
- Creating a file system
- Setting the maximum IOPS
- Creating a snapshot
- Restoring a snapshot
- Configuring a replication job
- Stopping or starting a replication job for VVR
- Pausing and resuming a replication job for VVR
- Enabling or disabling a replication job for VFR
- Synchronizing a replication job for VFR
- Failing over or failing back a replication job for VVR
- Failing over or failing back a replication job for VFR
- Unconfiguring a replication job for VFR
- Unconfiguring a replication job for VVR
- Viewing the list of iSCSI targets
- Adding an initiator for an iSCSI target
- Removing an initiator for an iSCSI target
- Adding portal IPs for an iSCSI target
- Setting up authentication for an iSCSI target
- Viewing the list of initiators for an iSCSI target
- Viewing the portal IPs for an iSCSI target
- Removing portal IPs for an iSCSI target
- Removing authentication settings for an iSCSI target
- Removing an iSCSI target
- Removing the file system store for an iSCSI target
- Viewing the list of LUNs for an iSCSI target
- Creating a LUN for an iSCSI target
- Increasing the size of a LUN for an iSCSI target
- Reducing the size of a LUN for an iSCSI target
- Removing a LUN for an iSCSI target
- Cloning a LUN for an iSCSI target
- Creating a snapshot of a LUN for an iSCSI target
- Viewing the list of snapshots for an iSCSI target
- Removing a LUN snapshot
- Restoring a LUN snapshot
- Provisioning and managing shares
- About file sharing protocols
- About concurrent access
- About concurrent access with NFS and S3
- Sharing directories using CIFS and NFS protocols
- Adding a share
- NFS protocol options
- CIFS protocol options
- About buckets and objects
- About Active Directory (AD)
- Logging on as an active directory user
- Creating access and secret keys for an active directory user
- Exporting an NFS share as an S3 bucket
- Viewing information about a share
- Accessing share details
- Configuring a favorite share
- Deleting a share
- Managing permissions for CIFS shares
- Managing clients for the NFS shares
- Managing policies
- About policies for storage provisioning
- About policies for long-term data retention
- About policies for archiving data using Enterprise Vault
- About policies for file systems
- About pattern matching for data movement policies
- Viewing information about policies
- Activating storage policy templates
- Activating long-term data retention policies
- Activating archival policies
- Creating an S3 bucket
- About cloud-storage tiering
- Workflow for adding a cloud tier
- About tiering policies
- Adding a secondary tier
- Viewing information about the secondary tier
- Adding or editing a tier policy on a secondary tier
- Creating a policy schedule
- Managing settings
- Viewing Access Appliance settings
- About the cloud gateway
- Viewing information about cloud services
- Adding and removing a cloud service
- Viewing discovery information about your cluster
- About the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- Configuring LDAP
- Configuring Active Directory
- About user management
- Adding and removing user roles using GUI
- Performing user management using CLISH
- Configuring the NTP server
- Starting or stopping the CIFS or NFS servers
- Starting or stopping the S3 server
- Adding or removing storage pools for S3 users
- Configuring the /etc/hosts file for mapping of S3 users
- Registering a NetBackup master server or an EMM server
- Modifying a NetBackup media server list
- Viewing information about your NetBackup configuration with Access Appliance
- About cluster management
- Setting up the time and the time zone for the cluster
- About replication
- Viewing information about events
- Purging events
- About Access Appliance product licensing
- Setting object server default parameters
- Setting up the object server group-specific parameters
- Viewing information about S3
- Configuring the KMS server
- About the CIFS service management
- Setting up the home directory
- About the File Transfer Protocol
- About Veritas Data Deduplication
- About alert management
- STIG overview for Access Appliance
- FIPS compatibility list
- Index
Creating a file system
The file system uses disks from the specified storage pool for primary storage. You can optionally add a cloud tier for secondary storage.
To create a file system
- Prerequisites:
Before you create a file system, the storage must already be assigned to storage pools.
To create a cloud tier, the cloud service must already be added to Access Appliance.
- Provide the name for the new file system and specify the basic information for the file system:
Size (Required)
The minimum size is 10 MB. Units can be MB, GB, or TB.
If you plan to add a cloud tier, the minimum size is 10 GB.
Select Layout
Simple
Mirrored
Striped
Striped-mirror
Mirrored-stripe
Select Storage
You can choose between two types of storage:
On-premises storage
Select the storage pools to use to create the file system.
Cloud storage
Indicate that you want to add cloud storage
Specify the tier name for the cloud tier.
Select the cloud provider.
- Specify the Advanced options. The options depend on the file system layout:
Block Size
The default block size is 8192 bytes. The block size cannot be changed after the file system is created.
Block sizes can affect the file size. For example, to create a file system greater then 32 TB, the block size needs to be 8192 bytes.
Enable Partition Directory
The partition directory feature distributes directory entries into hash directories. The hash directories are not visible in the name space view of the user or operating system. Operations such as create, delete, or lookup use the respective hash directory, which leaves the parent drectory inode and its other hash directories unobstructed for access. This feature improves file system performance. By default, partition directory is disabled.
Encryption
Optional parameter that allows you to encrypt all the data on the file system.
Number of Mirrors
For layouts that use mirroring, the minimum number of mirrors is 2 (the default).
Protection
For layouts that use mirroring, the protection option determines where the mirrors are created.
Disk (default) - creates mirrors on separate disks
Pool - creates mirrors in separate pools.
Number of Columns
For layouts that use striping, the minimum number of columns is 2 (the default).
Stripe Unit
For layouts that use striping, specify a stripe width in kilobytes (KB).
- To add a cloud tier, specify the cloud service and the name for the cloud tier.
If you specify AWS, you need to specify the tier type as Glacier or S3.
- The status for each file system creation task is displayed at the Recent Activity panel at the bottom. You can double-click on each task to see the logs.