Arctera InfoScale™ 9.0 Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability Administrator's Guide - AIX
- Section I. Introducing Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability
- Overview of Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability
- About Veritas File System
- How Dynamic Multi-Pathing works
- How Volume Manager works
- How Volume Manager works with the operating system
- How Volume Manager handles storage management
- Volume layouts in Veritas Volume Manager
- Online relayout
- Volume resynchronization
- Dirty region logging
- Volume snapshots
- FastResync
- How VxVM handles hardware clones or snapshots
- How Veritas File System works
- How Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability works
- About Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability architecture
- About Veritas File System features supported in cluster file systems
- About single network link and reliability
- About I/O fencing
- About preventing data corruption with I/O fencing
- About I/O fencing components
- About server-based I/O fencing
- About secure communication between the SFCFSHA cluster and CP server
- How Cluster Volume Manager works
- Overview of clustering
- Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) tolerance to storage connectivity failures
- Storage disconnectivity and CVM disk detach policies
- CVM initialization and configuration
- Dirty region logging in cluster environments
- Multiple host failover configurations
- About Flexible Storage Sharing
- Overview of Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability
- Section II. Provisioning storage
- Provisioning new storage
- Advanced allocation methods for configuring storage
- Customizing allocation behavior
- Using rules to make volume allocation more efficient
- Understanding persistent attributes
- Customizing disk classes for allocation
- Specifying allocation constraints for vxassist operations with the use clause and the require clause
- Creating volumes of a specific layout
- Customizing allocation behavior
- Creating and mounting VxFS file systems
- Creating a VxFS file system
- Mounting a VxFS file system
- tmplog mount option
- ioerror mount option
- largefiles and nolargefiles mount options
- Resizing a file system
- Monitoring free space
- Extent attributes
- Section III. Administering multi-pathing with DMP
- Administering Dynamic Multi-Pathing
- Discovering and configuring newly added disk devices
- About discovering disks and dynamically adding disk arrays
- How to administer the Device Discovery Layer
- Administering DMP using the vxdmpadm utility
- Gathering and displaying I/O statistics
- Specifying the I/O policy
- Discovering and configuring newly added disk devices
- Dynamic Reconfiguration of devices
- Reconfiguring a LUN online that is under DMP control using the Dynamic Reconfiguration tool
- Manually reconfiguring a LUN online that is under DMP control
- Managing devices
- Displaying disk information
- Changing the disk device naming scheme
- Adding and removing disks
- Event monitoring
- Administering Dynamic Multi-Pathing
- Section IV. Administering Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability
- Administering Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability and its components
- Administering CFS
- About the mount, fsclustadm, and fsadm commands
- When the CFS primary node fails
- About Snapshots on SFCFSHA
- Administering VCS
- Administering CVM
- About setting cluster node preferences for master failover
- About changing the CVM master manually
- Importing disk groups as shared
- Administering Flexible Storage Sharing
- Administering ODM
- About administering I/O fencing
- About the vxfentsthdw utility
- Testing the coordinator disk group using the -c option of vxfentsthdw
- About the vxfenadm utility
- About the vxfenclearpre utility
- About the vxfenswap utility
- About administering the coordination point server
- About migrating between disk-based and server-based fencing configurations
- Migrating between fencing configurations using response files
- About the vxfentsthdw utility
- Administering SFCFSHA global clusters
- Using Clustered NFS
- Understanding how Clustered NFS works
- Configure and unconfigure Clustered NFS
- Reconciling major and minor numbers for NFS shared disks
- Administering Clustered NFS
- Samples for configuring a Clustered NFS
- Using Common Internet File System
- Administering sites and remote mirrors
- About sites and remote mirrors
- Fire drill - testing the configuration
- Changing the site name
- Administering the Remote Mirror configuration
- Failure and recovery scenarios
- Administering Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability and its components
- Section V. Optimizing I/O performance
- Section VI. Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager
- Using Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager
- About Oracle Disk Manager
- About Oracle Disk Manager and Oracle Managed Files
- Using Cached ODM
- Using Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager
- Section VII. Using Point-in-time copies
- Understanding point-in-time copy methods
- When to use point-in-time copies
- About Storage Foundation point-in-time copy technologies
- Volume-level snapshots
- Storage Checkpoints
- About FileSnaps
- About snapshot file systems
- Administering volume snapshots
- Traditional third-mirror break-off snapshots
- Full-sized instant snapshots
- Creating instant snapshots
- Adding an instant snap DCO and DCO volume
- Controlling instant snapshot synchronization
- Creating instant snapshots
- Cascaded snapshots
- Adding a version 0 DCO and DCO volume
- Administering Storage Checkpoints
- Storage Checkpoint administration
- Administering FileSnaps
- Administering snapshot file systems
- Understanding point-in-time copy methods
- Section VIII. Optimizing storage with Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability
- Understanding storage optimization solutions in Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability
- Migrating data from thick storage to thin storage
- Maintaining Thin Storage with Thin Reclamation
- Reclamation of storage on thin reclamation arrays
- Identifying thin and thin reclamation LUNs
- InfoScale 4K sector device support solution
- Section IX. Maximizing storage utilization
- Understanding storage tiering with SmartTier
- Creating and administering volume sets
- Multi-volume file systems
- Features implemented using multi-volume file system (MVFS) support
- Adding a volume to and removing a volume from a multi-volume file system
- Volume encapsulation
- Load balancing
- Administering SmartTier
- About SmartTier
- Placement classes
- Administering placement policies
- File placement policy rules
- Multiple criteria in file placement policy rule statements
- Using SmartTier with solid state disks
- Sub-file relocation
- Administering hot-relocation
- How hot-relocation works
- Moving relocated subdisks
- Compressing files
- About compressing files
- Use cases for compressing files
- Section X. Administering and protecting storage
- Administering VxVM volumes as paging devices
- Managing volumes and disk groups
- Rules for determining the default disk group
- Moving volumes or disks
- Monitoring and controlling tasks
- Performing online relayout
- Adding a mirror to a volume
- Managing disk groups
- Disk group versions
- Displaying disk group information
- Importing a disk group
- Moving disk groups between systems
- Importing a disk group containing hardware cloned disks
- Handling conflicting configuration copies
- Destroying a disk group
- Backing up and restoring disk group configuration data
- Managing plexes and subdisks
- Decommissioning storage
- Using DMP with a SAN boot disk
- Configuring DMP for SAN booting
- Administering the root volume group (rootvg) under DMP control
- Extending an LVM rootvg that is enabled for DMP
- Quotas
- Using Veritas File System quotas
- File Change Log
- Section XI. Reference
- Appendix A. Reverse path name lookup
- Appendix B. Tunable parameters
- Tuning the VxFS file system
- Methods to change Dynamic Multi-Pathing tunable parameters
- Tunable parameters for VxVM
- Methods to change Veritas Volume Manager tunable parameters
- About LLT tunable parameters
- About GAB tunable parameters
- About VXFEN tunable parameters
- Appendix C. Command reference
- Appendix D. Creating a starter database
- Appendix E. InfoScale event logging
Setting log file permissions
In compliance with the U.S. Presidential Executive Order (EO) 14028 (issued on May 12, 2021), all InfoScale log files permissions are set to 600 (rw-------) by default. Only the owner of the log files has full read-write access. However, this default value may not be suitable for all environments. In certain cases, there can be a need to set different values for the log file permissions. To address this requirement, InfoScale provides tunables that let you modify the log file permissions as needed.
To set InfoScale log file permissions
- You can set the InfoScale log file permissions in the following ways:
During InfoScale upgrade:
When you upgrade to InfoScale 9.0, the installer presents you with the following dialog during installation:
Do you want to set the permission of the files as per EO logging standards? [y,n,q]
When you enter y (Yes), the following dialog appears:
Please provide the proper permission option [b,q,?] (0)
The default is value is set as 0 (zero) and the permissions are set to 600 (read-write access to owner) for all log files. Enter the desired value here to set the required permission settings. For example, enter 10 to set the permissions to the default value of 600 (read-write access to owner), applicable to all new log files, but do not change any existing log file permissions.
Note that this value gets applied to all the InfoScale log files. Post upgrade, you can use the manual method to set permissions for log files at an individual component level.
Post InfoScale upgrade:
You can modify the log file permissions after the upgrade. Each InfoScale component has a unique tunable parameter to which you can assign a value to set the desired log file permissions for that component. You can do this manually using the relevant commands or by directly editing the individual component's configuration file.
Note:
When you set the permissions manually, you must restart the individual component service for the changes to take effect.
The log file permissions are set to the value that you provide, irrespective of whether you set the value during upgrade or post upgrade.