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 Veritas Access
You can use Veritas Access in any of the following ways.
Table: Interfaces for using Veritas Access
Interface | Description |
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GUI | Getting Started wizard with operations for managing the Veritas Access. Centralized dashboard and Quick Actions with operations for managing your storage. See the GUI and the Online Help for more information. |
Command-line interface (CLI) | Single point of administration for the entire cluster. See the manual pages for more information. |
Table: Veritas Access key features
Feature | Description |
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Supported protocols | Veritas Access includes support for the following protocols:
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Creation of Partition Secure Notification (PSN) file for Enterprise Vault Archiving | A Partition Secure Notification (PSN) file is created at a source partition after the successful backup of the partition at the remote site. For more information, see the Veritas Access Solutions Guide for Enterprise Vault. |
Managing application I/O workloads using maximum IOPS settings | The MAXIOPS limit determines the maximum number of I/Os processed per second collectively by the storage underlying the file system. See About managing application I/O workloads using maximum IOPS settings. |
Snapshot | Veritas Access supports snapshots for recovering from data corruption. If files, or an entire file system, are deleted or become corrupted, you can replace them from the latest uncorrupted snapshot. See About snapshots. |
Compression | You can compress files to reduce the space used, while retaining the accessibility of the files and having the compression be transparent to applications. Compressed files look and behave almost exactly like uncompressed files: the compressed files have the same name, and can be read and written as with uncompressed files. |
Veritas Access as an iSCSI target for RHEL 7.x | Veritas Access as an iSCSI target can be configured to serve block storage. An iSCSI target as service is hosted in an active/active mode in the Veritas Access cluster. |
Configuring Veritas Access in IPv4 and IPv6 mixed mode | Support for configuring the Veritas Access cluster in an IPv4 environment, or an IPV6 environment, or in a mixed mode environment where you have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. |
NetBackup integration | Built-in NetBackup client for backing up your file systems to a NetBackup primary or media server. Once data is backed up, a storage administrator can delete unwanted data from Veritas Access to free up expensive storage for more data. See the Veritas Access Solutions Guide for NetBackup for more information. |
OpenStack plug-in | Integration with OpenStack:
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Quotas | Support for setting file system quotas, user quotas, and hard quotas. |
Replication | Periodic replication of data over IP networks. See About Veritas Access episodic replication. See the episodic(1) man page for more information. Synchronous replication of data over IP networks See About Veritas Access continuous replication. See the continuous(1) man page for more information. |
Support for LDAP, NIS, and AD | You can configure LDAP, NIS, and AD authentication services with Veritas Access. See About configuring LDAP settings. |
Partition Directory | With support for partitioned directories, directory entries are redistributed into various hash directories. These hash directories are not visible in the namespace view of the user or operating system. For every new create, delete, or lookup, this feature performs a lookup for the respective hashed directory and performs the operation in that directory. This leaves the parent directory inode and its other hash directories unobstructed for access, which vastly improves file system performance. By default this feature is not enabled. See the storage_fs(1) manual page to enable this feature. |
Veritas Data Deduplication | Veritas Data Deduplication technology is installed on top of Veritas Access and integrates with NetBackup. It catalogs and organizes incoming deduplicated backup data and stores it on Veritas Access storage. For more information, see the Veritas Access Solutions Guide for NetBackup. |
Support for Cloud tiering | The cloud as a tier feature for a file system lets you move data to different cloud services. The data is always written to the on-premises storage tier and then data can be moved to the cloud tier using a tiering mechanism. For more information, see the Veritas Access Cloud Storage Tiering Guide. |
Separation of management and data network | Ability to configure a separate management and data network during cluster configuration. For more information, see the Veritas Access Appliance Initial Configuration Guide. |
Support for multiple data subnets | Veritas Access supports multiple data subnets. This is applicable to all the protocols that the Veritas Access supports. |