Veritas Access Administrator's Guide
- Section I. Introducing Veritas Access
- Section II. Configuring Veritas Access
- Adding users or roles
- Configuring the network
- About configuring the Veritas Access network
- About bonding Ethernet interfaces
- Bonding Ethernet interfaces
- Configuring DNS settings
- About Ethernet interfaces
- Displaying current Ethernet interfaces and states
- Configuring IP addresses
- Configuring Veritas Access to use jumbo frames
- Configuring VLAN interfaces
- Configuring NIC devices
- Swapping network interfaces
- Excluding PCI IDs from the cluster
- About configuring routing tables
- Configuring routing tables
- Changing the firewall settings
- IP load balancing
- Configuring Veritas Access in IPv4 and IPv6 mixed mode
- Configuring authentication services
- Section III. Managing Veritas Access storage
- Configuring storage
- About storage provisioning and management
- About configuring disks
- About configuring storage pools
- Configuring storage pools
- About quotas for usage
- Enabling, disabling, and displaying the status of file system quotas
- Setting and displaying file system quotas
- Setting user quotas for users of specified groups
- About quotas for CIFS home directories
- About Flexible Storage Sharing
- Limitations of Flexible Storage Sharing
- Workflow for configuring and managing storage using the Veritas Access CLI
- Displaying information for all disk devices associated with the nodes in a cluster
- Displaying WWN information
- Importing new LUNs forcefully for new or existing pools
- Initiating host discovery of LUNs
- Increasing the storage capacity of a LUN
- Formatting or reinitializing a disk
- Removing a disk
- Configuring data integrity with I/O fencing
- Configuring ISCSI
- Veritas Access as an iSCSI target
- Configuring storage
- Section IV. Managing Veritas Access file access services
- Configuring the NFS server
- About using the NFS server with Veritas Access
- Using the kernel-based NFS server
- Accessing the NFS server
- Displaying and resetting NFS statistics
- Configuring Veritas Access for ID mapping for NFS version 4
- Configuring the NFS client for ID mapping for NFS version 4
- About authenticating NFS clients
- Setting up Kerberos authentication for NFS clients
- Using Veritas Access as a CIFS server
- About configuring Veritas Access for CIFS
- About configuring CIFS for standalone mode
- Configuring CIFS server status for standalone mode
- Changing security settings
- About Active Directory (AD)
- About configuring CIFS for Active Directory (AD) domain mode
- Setting NTLM
- About setting trusted domains
- Specifying trusted domains that are allowed access to the CIFS server
- Allowing trusted domains access to CIFS when setting an IDMAP backend to rid
- Allowing trusted domains access to CIFS when setting an IDMAP backend to ldap
- Allowing trusted domains access to CIFS when setting an IDMAP backend to hash
- Allowing trusted domains access to CIFS when setting an IDMAP backend to ad
- About configuring Windows Active Directory as an IDMAP backend for CIFS
- Configuring the Active Directory schema with CIFS-schema extensions
- Configuring the LDAP client for authentication using the CLI
- Configuring the CIFS server with the LDAP backend
- Setting Active Directory trusted domains
- About storing account information
- Storing user and group accounts
- Reconfiguring the CIFS service
- About mapping user names for CIFS/NFS sharing
- About the mapuser commands
- Adding, removing, or displaying the mapping between CIFS and NFS users
- Automatically mapping UNIX users from LDAP to Windows users
- About managing home directories
- About CIFS clustering modes
- About migrating CIFS shares and home directories
- Setting the CIFS aio_fork option
- About managing local users and groups
- Enabling CIFS data migration
- Configuring an FTP server
- About FTP
- Creating the FTP home directory
- Using the FTP server commands
- About FTP server options
- Customizing the FTP server options
- Administering the FTP sessions
- Uploading the FTP logs
- Administering the FTP local user accounts
- About the settings for the FTP local user accounts
- Configuring settings for the FTP local user accounts
- Using Veritas Access as an Object Store server
- Configuring the NFS server
- Section V. Monitoring and troubleshooting
- Section VI. Provisioning and managing Veritas Access file systems
- Creating and maintaining file systems
- About creating and maintaining file systems
- About encryption at rest
- Considerations for creating a file system
- Best practices for creating file systems
- Choosing a file system layout type
- Determining the initial extent size for a file system
- About striping file systems
- About creating a tuned file system for a specific workload
- About FastResync
- About fsck operation
- Setting retention in files
- Setting WORM over NFS
- Manually setting WORM-retention on a file over CIFS
- About managing application I/O workloads using maximum IOPS settings
- Creating a file system
- Bringing the file system online or offline
- Listing all file systems and associated information
- Modifying a file system
- Managing a file system
- Destroying a file system
- Upgrading disk layout versions
- Creating and maintaining file systems
- Section VII. Provisioning and managing Veritas Access shares
- Creating shares for applications
- Creating and maintaining NFS shares
- About NFS file sharing
- Displaying file systems and snapshots that can be exported
- Exporting an NFS share
- Displaying exported directories
- About managing NFS shares using netgroups
- Unexporting a directory or deleting NFS options
- Exporting an NFS share for Kerberos authentication
- Mounting an NFS share with Kerberos security from the NFS client
- Exporting an NFS snapshot
- Creating and maintaining CIFS shares
- About managing CIFS shares
- Exporting a directory as a CIFS share
- Configuring a CIFS share as secondary storage for an Enterprise Vault store
- Exporting the same file system/directory as a different CIFS share
- About the CIFS export options
- Setting share properties
- Displaying CIFS share properties
- Hiding system files when adding a CIFS normal share
- Allowing specified users and groups access to the CIFS share
- Denying specified users and groups access to the CIFS share
- Exporting a CIFS snapshot
- Deleting a CIFS share
- Modifying a CIFS share
- Making a CIFS share shadow copy aware
- Using Veritas Access with OpenStack
- Integrating Veritas Access with Data Insight
- Section VIII. Managing Veritas Access storage services
- Compressing files
- About compressing files
- Use cases for compressing files
- Best practices for using compression
- Compression tasks
- Compressing files
- Showing the scheduled compression job
- Scheduling compression jobs
- Listing compressed files
- Uncompressing files
- Modifying the scheduled compression
- Removing the specified schedule
- Stopping the schedule for a file system
- Removing the pattern-related rule for a file system
- Removing the modified age related rule for a file system
- Configuring episodic replication
- About Veritas Access episodic replication
- How Veritas Access episodic replication works
- Starting Veritas Access episodic replication
- Setting up communication between the source and the destination clusters
- Setting up the file systems to replicate
- Setting up files to exclude from an episodic replication unit
- Scheduling the episodic replication
- Defining what to replicate
- About the maximum number of parallel episodic replication jobs
- Managing an episodic replication job
- Replicating compressed data
- Displaying episodic replication job information and status
- Synchronizing an episodic replication job
- Behavior of the file systems on the episodic replication destination target
- Accessing file systems configured as episodic replication destinations
- Episodic replication job failover and failback
- Configuring continuous replication
- About Veritas Access continuous replication
- How Veritas Access continuous replication works
- Starting Veritas Access continuous replication
- Setting up communication between the source and the target clusters
- Setting up the file system to replicate
- Managing continuous replication
- Displaying continuous replication information and status
- Unconfiguring continuous replication
- Continuous replication failover and failback
- Using snapshots
- Using instant rollbacks
- About instant rollbacks
- Creating a space-optimized rollback
- Creating a full-sized rollback
- Listing Veritas Access instant rollbacks
- Restoring a file system from an instant rollback
- Refreshing an instant rollback from a file system
- Bringing an instant rollback online
- Taking an instant rollback offline
- Destroying an instant rollback
- Creating a shared cache object for Veritas Access instant rollbacks
- Listing cache objects
- Destroying a cache object of a Veritas Access instant rollback
- Compressing files
- Section IX. Reference
- Index
About encryption at rest
Veritas Access provides advanced security for data at rest by the encryption of data volumes. Encryption is a technology that converts data or information into code that can be decrypted only by authorized users.
You can encrypt Veritas Access data volumes to:
Protect sensitive data from unauthorized access.
Retire disks from use or ship them for replacement without the overhead of secure wiping of content.
Encryption is implemented using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cryptographic algorithm with 256-bit key size validated by the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2, (FIPS PUB 140-2) security standard.
When you create file systems in Veritas Access on encrypted volumes using this feature, Veritas Access generates a volume encryption key at the time of file system creation. This encryption key is encrypted (wrapped) using a different key that is retrieved from a Key Management Server (KMS). The wrapped key is stored with the volume record. The volume encryption key is not stored on disk.
Veritas Access supports the use of a KMS that conforms to the OASIS Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) version 1.1 specification.
During creation of encrypted volumes:
Veritas Access sends a key generation request to the configured KMS using the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) protocol.
The KMS responds with a unique identifier. Veritas Access sends the identifier to the KMS to obtain the key that is generated by the KMS.
The KMS responds with the key. Veritas Access generates the random volume encryption key, and encrypts it using the key that is provided by the KMS.
Veritas Access stores the encrypted key and the KMS identifier in the volume record.
During startup of encrypted volumes:
Veritas Access retrieves the encrypted key and the KMS identifier from the volume record.
Veritas Access sends the identifier to the KMS to obtain the key.
The KMS responds with the key. Veritas Access decrypts the encrypted key (stored in the volume record) with the key provided by the KMS.
Note:
Veritas recommends that you use CPUs designed to support Advanced Encryption Standard Instruction Set (or the Intel Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (AES-NI) to improve performance.
Veritas recommends that you use IBM Secure Key Lifecycle Manager (SKLM), which supports KMIP protocol version 1.1, as a KMS server for this feature.
To register a Veritas Access cluster with the IBM SKLM KMS server
- Install the IBM SKLM server on any system in your environment. You can visit this URL to find the supported IBM SKLM servers with Veritas Access. Obtain the KMS server's public certificate in base64 format using its admin GUI console or the CLI.
- In the Veritas Access GUI management console, go to Settings > Services Management to register the Veritas Access cluster with the KMS server.
- Ensure that the time on the Veritas Access server and IBM SKLM server are in sync.
- Select Provide Key & Certificates to generate self-sign certificates for the Veritas Access cluster. Provide the KMS server's public SSL certificate in the same window.
- Configure KMS Server gets activated now. Select this tab to enter the KMS server-related details.
- Use the IBM SKLM server's GUI-based management to accept the client request from the Veritas Access cluster and to accept its SSL keys.
You can use the Storage> fs create command to create the file system with the encrypt=on option.
storage> fs create mirrored fs2 1g 2 pool1 protection=disk blksize=8192 pdir_enable=no encrypt=on
You can use the storage encryption feature in the GUI by activating the secure data storage policy. You can add new NFS and CIFS shares using the activated policy.
Note:
Use the encrypt=on option for all the file systems.