Veritas Access 7.3 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 the IP addresses for the Ethernet interfaces
- 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
- Configuring authentication services
- Section III. Managing Veritas Access storage
- Configuring storage
- About storage provisioning and management
- Displaying information for all disk devices associated with the nodes in a cluster
- About configuring storage pools
- Configuring storage pools
- About quotas for usage
- About quotas for CIFS home directories
- 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 Flexible Storage Sharing
- Workflow for configuring and managing storage using the Veritas Access CLI
- Displaying WWN information
- Initiating host discovery of LUNs
- Importing new LUNs forcefully for new or existing pools
- Increasing the storage capacity of a LUN
- About configuring disks
- Configuring disks
- Formatting or reinitializing a disk
- Removing a disk
- Configuring data integrity with I/O fencing
- Configuring ISCSI
- Configuring storage
- Section IV. Managing Veritas Access file access services
- Configuring your NFS server
- About using NFS server with Veritas Access
- Using the kernel-based NFS server
- Using the NFS-Ganesha server
- Switching between NFS servers
- Recommended tuning for NFS-Ganesha version 3 and version 4
- 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
- Changing security settings after the CIFS server is stopped
- 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 of 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 Veritas Access to work with Oracle Direct NFS
- About using Veritas Access with Oracle Direct NFS
- About the Oracle Direct NFS architecture
- About Oracle Direct NFS node or storage connection failures
- Configuring an Oracle Direct NFS storage pool
- Configuring an Oracle Direct NFS file system
- Configuring an Oracle Direct NFS share
- Best practices for improving Oracle database performance
- 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
- Configuring your NFS server
- Section V. Managing the Veritas Access Object Store server
- Section VI. Monitoring and troubleshooting
- Section VII. Provisioning and managing Veritas Access file systems
- Creating and maintaining file systems
- About creating and maintaining file systems
- Considerations for creating a file system
- Best practices for creating file systems
- About scale-out file systems
- Characteristics of a scale-out file system
- About striping file systems
- About creating a tuned file system for a specific workload
- About FastResync
- About scale-out fsck
- About setting retention in files
- About managing application I/O workloads using maximum IOPS settings
- Choosing a file system layout type
- Determining the initial extent size for a file system
- 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 VIII. Configuring cloud storage
- Configuring the cloud gateway
- Configuring cloud as a tier
- Configuring the cloud as a tier feature for scale-out file systems
- Moving files between tiers in a scale-out file system
- About policies for scale-out file systems
- Obtaining statistics on data usage in the cloud tier in scale-out file systems
- Workflow for moving on-premises storage to cloud storage for NFS shares
- Section IX. 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
- Hiding system files when adding a CIFS normal share
- Displaying CIFS share properties
- 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
- Section X. Managing Veritas Access storage services
- Deduplicating data
- Compressing files
- About compressing files
- Use cases for compressing files
- Best practices for using compression
- Compression tasks
- Compressing files
- Scheduling compression jobs
- Listing compressed files
- Showing the scheduled compression job
- 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 SmartTier
- About Veritas Access SmartTier
- How Veritas Access uses SmartTier
- Adding tiers to a file system
- Adding or removing a column from a secondary tier of a file system
- Configuring a mirror to a tier of a file system
- Listing all of the files on the specified tier
- Displaying a list of SmartTier file systems
- About tiering policies
- About configuring the policy of each tiered file system
- Configuring the policy of each tiered file system
- Best practices for setting relocation policies
- Relocating a file or directory of a tiered file system
- Displaying the tier location of a specified file
- About configuring schedules for all tiered file systems
- Configuring schedules for tiered file systems
- Displaying the files that may be moved or pruned by running a policy
- Allowing metadata information on the file system to be written on the secondary tier
- Restricting metadata information to the primary tier only
- Removing a tier from a file system
- Configuring SmartIO
- About SmartIO for solid-state drives
- About configuring SmartIO
- About SmartIO read caching for applications running on Veritas Access file systems
- Setting up SmartIO read caching for Veritas Access
- About SmartIO writeback caching for applications running on Veritas Access file systems
- Setting up SmartIO writeback caching for VxFS file systems
- Tuning the writeback caching
- Flushing dirty data from a writeback cache area
- Setting the caching mode
- Customizing the caching behavior
- Viewing the caching statistics for a cache area
- Verifying the VxFS cache area and monitoring the caching
- Configuring replication
- About Veritas Access file-level replication
- How Veritas Access replication works
- About Veritas Access sync replication
- How Veritas Access sync replication works
- Starting Veritas Access replication
- Setting up communication between the source and the destination clusters
- Setting up the file systems to replicate
- Setting up files to exclude from a replication unit
- Scheduling the replication
- Defining what to replicate
- About the maximum number of parallel replication jobs
- Managing a replication job
- Replicating compressed data
- Displaying replication job information and status
- Synchronizing a replication job
- Behavior of the file systems on the replication destination target
- Accessing file systems configured as replication destinations
- Creating a recovery point objective (RPO) report
- Replication job 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
- Configuring Veritas Access with the NetBackup client
- About Veritas Access as a NetBackup client
- Prerequisites for configuring the NetBackup client
- About the NetBackup Snapshot Client
- About NetBackup snapshot methods
- About NetBackup instant recovery
- Enabling or disabling the NetBackup SAN client
- Workflow for configuring Veritas Access for NetBackup
- Registering a NetBackup master server, an EMM server, or adding an optional media server
- Displaying the excluded files from backup
- Displaying the included and excluded files for backups
- Adding or deleting patterns to the list of files in backups
- Configuring or resetting the virtual IP address used by NetBackup
- Configuring the virtual name of NetBackup
- Displaying the status of NetBackup services
- Configuring backup operations using NetBackup or other third-party backup applications
- Performing a backup or restore of a Veritas Access file system over a NetBackup SAN client
- Performing a backup or restore of a snapshot
- Installing or uninstalling the NetBackup client
- Configuring Veritas Access for NetBackup cloud storage
- Section XI. Reference
Modifying tunables for iSCSI
You can set the values of the attributes on the targets. You can set or show the default values, the values for all targets, or the values for a specific target.
Table: Attributes for iSCSI targets shows the target attributes that you can modify.
Table: Attributes for iSCSI targets
Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
cmds_max | The maximum number of SCSI commands that the session will queue. A session is defined as a connection between the initiator and target portal for accessing a given target. cmds_max defines the commands per target, which could be multiple LUNs. Valid values range from 2 to 2048 and should be a power of 2. |
fast_abort | Defines whether initiator should respond to R2Ts (Request to Transfer) after sending a task management function like an ABORT_TASK or LOGICAL UNIT RESET. A value of Yes causes the initiator to stop responding to R2Ts after an ABORT_TASK request is received. For Equallogic arrays, the recommended value is No. Valid values are Yes or No. |
initial_login_retry_max | The maximum number of times that the iSCSI initiator should try a login to the target during first login. This only affects the initial login. Valid values range from 1 to 16. During each login attempt, wait for login_timeout seconds for the login to succeed. |
login_timeout | The amount of time that the iSCSI initiator service should wait for login to complete. The value of this attribute is in seconds. Valid values range from 10 to 600. |
logout_timeout | The amount of time that the iSCSI initiator service should wait for logout to complete. The value of this attribute is in seconds. Valid values range from 10 to 600. |
noop_interval | The time to wait between subsequent sending of Nop-out requests. The value of this attribute is in seconds. Valid values range from 5 to 600. |
noop_timeout | The amount of time that the iSCSI initiator service should wait for response to a Nop-out request sent to the target, before failing the connection. Failing the connection causes the I/O to be failed and retried on any other available path. The value of this attribute is in seconds. Valid values range from 5 to 600. |
queue_depth | The maximum number of SCSI commands queued per LUN, belonging to a target. The value for queue_depth cannot be greater than cmds_max. Valid values range from 1 to 128. |
replacement_timeout | The amount of time to wait for session re-establishment before failing SCSI commands. The value of this attribute is in seconds. Valid values range from 10 to 86400. |
To display the default value for target attributes
- To display the default value for target attributes, enter the following:
Storage> iscsi target attr showdefault
For example:
Storage> iscsi target attr showdefault Attribute Value --------- ----- replacement_timeout 122 noop_timeout 5 noop_interval 13 login_timeout 10 logout_timeout 15 cmds_max 128 queue_depth 32 initial_login_retry_max 10 fast_abort No
To display values for target attributes of all known targets
- To display values for target attributes of all known targets, enter the following:
Storage> iscsi target attr showall
For example:
Storage> iscsi target attr showall
Attribute Value Target --------- ----- ------ replacement_timeout 123 iqn.1992-08.com.iscsi:sn.84268871 noop_timeout 5 iqn.1992-08.com.iscsi:sn.84268871 noop_interval 121 iqn.1992-08.com.iscsi:sn.84268871 login_timeout 10 iqn.1992-08.com.iscsi:sn.84268871 logout_timeout 15 iqn.1992-08.com.iscsi:sn.84268871 cmds_max 128 iqn.1992-08.com.iscsi:sn.84268871 queue_depth 32 iqn.1992-08.com.iscsi:sn.84268871 initial_login_retry_max 5 iqn.1992-08.com.iscsi:sn.84268871 fast_abort No iqn.1992-08.com.iscsi:sn.84268871 replacement_timeout 124 iqn.2009-01.com.example:storage.disk0.lun0 noop_timeout 5 iqn.2009-01.com.example:storage.disk0.lun0 noop_interval 121 iqn.2009-01.com.example:storage.disk0.lun0 login_timeout 10 iqn.2009-01.com.example:storage.disk0.lun0 logout_timeout 15 iqn.2009-01.com.example:storage.disk0.lun0 cmds_max 128 iqn.2009-01.com.example:storage.disk0.lun0 queue_depth 32 iqn.2009-01.com.example:storage.disk0.lun0 initial_login_retry_max 10 iqn.2009-01.com.example:storage.disk0.lun0 fast_abort No iqn.2009-01.com.example:storage.disk0.lun0
To display the attribute values for a specific target
- To display the attribute values for a specific target, enter the following:
Storage> iscsi target attr show target-name
where target-name is the name of the iSCSI target to be displayed.
For example:
Storage> iscsi target attr show iqn.1992-08.com.iscsi:sn.84268871 Attribute Value --------- ----- replacement_timeout 123 noop_timeout 5 noop_interval 121 login_timeout 10 logout_timeout 15 cmds_max 128 queue_depth 32 initial_login_retry_max 5 fast_abort No
To set the default value for a target attribute
- To set the default value for a target attribute, enter the following:
Storage> iscsi target attr setdefault attribute value
attribute
The attribute for which to set the value.
value
The default value to be set for the attribute.
The default value is inherited by any new targets that get added.
For example:
Storage> iscsi target attr setdefault login_timeout 10 Sucesss.
To set an attribute value for all known targets
- To set an attribute value for all known targets, enter the following:
Storage> iscsi target attr setall attribute value
attribute
The attribute for which to set the value.
value
The value to be set for the attribute.
This command does not change the default value as shown in the Storage> iscsi target attr showdefault command. Changes to values are effective after re-login.
For example:
Storage> iscsi target attr setall logout_timeout 20 Changes would be applicable after next login into the target. Sucesss.
To set the attribute value for a specific target
- To set the attribute value for a specific target, enter the following:
Storage> iscsi target attr set target-name attribute value
target-name
The name of the specific iSCSI target.
attribute
The attribute of the specific target.
value
The value to be set for the target attribute.
For example:
Storage> iscsi target attr set iqn.1992-08.com.iscsi:sn.84268871 noop_interval 30 Changes would be applicable after next login into the target. Sucesss.