Veritas Access 7.3.0.1 Administrator's Guide
- Section I. Introducing Veritas Access
- Section II. Configuring Veritas Access
- Adding users or roles
- Configuring the network
- Configuring authentication services
- Section III. Managing Veritas Access storage
- Configuring storage
- Configuring data integrity with I/O fencing
- Configuring ISCSI
- Configuring storage
- Section IV. Managing Veritas Access file access services
- Configuring your NFS server
- Setting up Kerberos authentication for NFS clients
- Using Veritas Access as a CIFS server
- About Active Directory (AD)
- About configuring CIFS for Active Directory (AD) domain mode
- About setting trusted domains
- About managing home directories
- About CIFS clustering modes
- About migrating CIFS shares and home directories
- About managing local users and groups
- Configuring Veritas Access to work with Oracle Direct NFS
- Configuring an FTP server
- 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 scale-out file systems
- Considerations for creating a file system
- Modifying a file system
- Managing a file system
- Creating and maintaining file systems
- Section VIII. Configuring cloud storage
- Configuring the cloud gateway
- Configuring cloud as a tier
- About policies for scale-out file systems
- Section IX. Provisioning and managing Veritas Access shares
- Creating shares for applications
- Creating and maintaining NFS shares
- Creating and maintaining CIFS shares
- Using Veritas Access with OpenStack
- Section X. Managing Veritas Access storage services
- Deduplicating data
- Compressing files
- About compressing files
- Compression tasks
- Configuring SmartTier
- Configuring SmartIO
- Configuring replication
- Replication job failover and failback
- Using snapshots
- Using instant rollbacks
- Configuring Veritas Access with the NetBackup client
- Section XI. Reference
File sharing for a scale-out file system using FTP
Veritas Access provides support for sharing files using the FTP protocol for a scale-out file system. A scale-out file system can scale linearly, thus providing an advantage over a standard clustered file system.
See About scale-out file systems.
The FTP integration with a scale-out file system works in the same manner as the standard clustered file system except for the following differences:
In a standard clustered file system, the load for the FTP home directories or the anonymous directories is distributed across the virtual IPs hosted on different nodes. But the scale-out file system currently works in active/passive mode. Hence, the FTP user always has to use the claim IP associated with the scale-out file system.
The details of VIP associated with a home/anonymous directory can be seen using the FTP> show command.
A scale-out file system is a stitched file system. It is built on top of multiple file systems. The additional layering has an effect on performance.
The exact numbers are available at reference architecture.
The following limitations apply when you share files using the FTP protocol for a scale-out file:
Quota settings
The FTP> homedir set command is usually used along with the Storage> quota functionality. Since the scale-out file system does not support quota, an FTP home directory which is based on a scale-out file system does not have quota functionality.
FTP with LDAP as security is not supported.