Dell Fluid File System Version 5.
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Contents About This Manual................................................................................................... 5 Revision History..................................................................................................................................... 5 Contacting Dell Support....................................................................................................................... 6 1 Introduction........................................................................
14 Space Pre-Allocation....................................................................................... 25 15 Backup and Restore – NDMP......................................................................... 26 16 Services and Ports............................................................................................ 29 17 Management...................................................................................................... 31 Events...................................................
About This Manual This document provides information about supported software and hardware configurations as well as usage requirements and recommendations for Dell FluidFS v5.x products. This document is valid as of FluidFS version 5.0.400014. Revision History Document Number: 680-116-001 Revision Date Changes from previous revision A January 2016 Initial release of FluidFS v5.0 B March 2016 FluidFS maintenance release 5.0.100128 • C D April 2016 May 2016 FluidFS maintenance release 5.0.
Contacting Dell Support Dell Technical Support is available to answer your questions about FluidFS and FS8600 systems. • For technical support, email the Copilot team at support@compellent.com or see the Copilot support page for direct phone access. Have your HSN/SSN number, case number, or service tag available to validate support coverage. • If you have an Express Service Code, have it ready. The code helps the Dell automated support telephone system direct your call more efficiently.
1 Introduction FluidFS version 5.0.400014 supports FS8600 systems. Glossary Table 1. Glossary of Terms defines the terms used in this document. Table 1.
2 FluidFS Models and Platforms The tables in this topic list the platforms, features, and configurations supported by the Storage Center systems. Storage Center Models Table 2. Supported Platforms and Configurations lists the supported platforms and configurations. Table 2.
Table 3. Maximum NAS Pool Size Feature Maximum Size Per Storage Center 3 PB (depends on Storage Center model) NAS pool capacity 4 PB FluidFS global namespace 20 PB NOTE: The total capacity of the NAS pool is 4 PB. The global namespace can reach 20 PB with five FluidFS clusters using redirection folders. Supported Hardware Upgrades Note the information in the following sections about hardware upgrades.
3 Software Update Path Table 4. Supported Update Paths lists the supported update paths for FS8600 systems, following the release of version 5.0.300109. Table 4. Supported Update Paths Current (Base) Version Next Supported Version 2.0.5110 or 2.0.5120 2.0.7680 2.0.6110 2.0.7680 2.0.6730 2.0.7680 or 3.0.920760 2.0.6940 2.0.7680 2.0.7040 2.0.7680 2.0.7170 2.0.7680 or 3.0.920760 2.0.7630 3.0.920760 or 3.0.940120 2.0.7680 3.0.920760 or 3.0.940120 3.0.8690 3.0.920760 or 3.0.940120 # 3.0.
Current (Base) Version Next Supported Version 4.0.230030 5.0.400014 4.0.300098 5.0.400014 5.0.002821 5.0.400014 5.0.100128 5.0.400014 5.0.200081 5.0.400014 5.0.300109 5.0.400014 NOTE: • # - Limited availability version. If you are running one of these versions, contact Dell Technical Support for assistance in updating your FluidFS system. • Before updating, ensure that the SAN storage firmware version supports the target FluidFS version as specified in Table 4. Supported Update Paths.
4 FluidFS File-System Metrics Table 5. FluidFS System Metrics and Table 6. FluidFS NAS Volume Metrics list the maximum supported configurations. NOTE: The system will not always prevent you from or warn you about exceeding these numbers. Table 5.
Feature Maximum per NAS Volume / System Redirection folders 1024 FluidFS File-System Metrics 13
Client Network Capabilities 5 Table 7. Supported Subnets and VLANs lists the supported subnets and VLANs. Table 7.
Customer Environment Management Protocols 6 Table 8. Identity Management Servers and Table 9. Maximum Identity, DNS, and Time Servers list the supported levels for identity management servers and interfaces. Identity Management Servers Table 8.
Maximum Identity, DNS, and Time Servers Table 9.
7 SMB Support FluidFS version 5 supports SMB1, SMB2, SMB2.1, and SMB3 protocols. Note that SMB3.02 clients (such as Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012R2) are negotiated to SMB3. NOTE: • Lower-than-maximum SMB level connections are also supported. • Setting ACL from Linux SMB clients is not supported. Supported SMB Configurations Each appliance can support a certain number of concurrent (active) SMB connections, even if one of the controllers is not available. Table 10.
8 NFS Support FluidFS version 5.x supports NFSv3, NFSv4, and NFSv4.1 protocols only. NFSv2 clients are not supported. NOTE: • Lower-than-maximum NFS level connections are also supported. • For NFSv4 clients, only Active Directory authentication is currently supported. See Customer Environment Management Protocols. • For NFSv4 clients, AUTH_SYS, Krb5, Krb5i, and Krb5p modes are supported. Table 11.
9 FTP Support FluidFS version 5.x supports anonymous FTP configurations (user name=anonymous, password=email_address). Each appliance can support the following number of concurrent (active) FTP connections, even if one of the nodes or controllers is not available. Table 12.
10 User and Group Quotas Table 13. Supported Quota Configurations lists the maximum number of supported quota rules per NAS volume for each system. Table 13. Supported Quota Configurations Feature Maximum per NAS Volume / System Quota rules 1024 / 1024 Quota usage entries 100,000 Quota directories 10,000/10,000 NOTE: 20 • Quotas for Active Directory (AD) and NIS/LDAP users are independent of each other, even if users are mapped automatically or manually.
11 FluidFS Replication Note the following information regarding FluidFS replication: • Replication can be performed from FluidFS v4.x to FluidFS v5.x. As a best practice, replication between systems running different major versions should be performed only for short-term update scenarios and is not recommended as a normal operating state. • Replication partners can differ in network interface speeds (1GB or 10GB) or in memory size (24 GB or 48 GB).
Table 15. FluidFS Replication TCP Ports by Source System FluidFS Version Functionality FluidFS v4.x Partnership setup 26, 10560, 9445 Management 10500, 10551 Data 10560–10568 22 FluidFS v5.
VMware and the FluidFS VAAI Plugin 12 The FluidFS VAAI plugin supports the following VAAI NAS Primitives and allows offloading them to the underlying FluidFS system: • Full File Clone — Offloads the creation of a virtual disk full clone • Fast File Clone (Native Snapshot) — Offloads the creation of virtual machine snapshots • Extended Statistics — Enables visibility into space usage on FluidFS datastores The FluidFS VAAI plugin supports ESXi versions 5.5, 5.5U1, and 5.5U2.
13 Antivirus Support Table 16. Antivirus Application Support lists the supported antivirus applications. Table 16. Antivirus Application Support Vendor Product Symantec Protection Engine for NAS 7.5, 7.8 McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Storage 1.1.0 TrendMicro InterScan Web Security Virtual Appliance (IWSVA) 6.x Kaspersky Antivirus 8.0 for Windows Servers Enterprise Edition Table 17.
14 Space Pre-Allocation Table 18. Reserved Space by Function and Table 19. Reserved Space by Pool Size provide an estimation of the pre-allocated (reserved) space for various file-system functions. These calculations can help you estimate disk space requirements and space growth of FluidFS systems. Table 18. Reserved Space by Function Allocation per Reserved space Cluster 30.4 GB Appliance 425.5 GB LUN 4 GB Total space 0.5% The amount of reserved space can also be estimated using Table 19.
15 Backup and Restore – NDMP Table 20. Backup and Restore Applications lists the supported backup and restore applications. Table 20. Backup and Restore Applications Application Supported Version CommVault Simpana 10.x, 11.x Dell Quest NetVault 10.x, 11.x EMC Networker 8.x IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 6.3 Symantec BackupExec 2014, 2015 Symantec NetBackup 7.x Refer to the application documentation for the minimal revision/service pack supporting Dell FluidFS systems. Table 21.
Functionality Supported Range Maximum number of exclude paths for an NDMP job 32 NOTE: Your environment should allow ICMP (ping) traffic between the FluidFS controllers’ private IP addresses (not the access VIPs) and the backup server. Table 23. Supported NDMP Environment Variables describes the NDMP environmental variables that are supported by FluidFS. Refer to the Data Management Application (DMA) documentation for a listing of the variables supported by DMA.
Variable Name Description Default backslash (\ )characters in a name should be escaped with a backslash. RECURSIVE Specifies whether the restore should be recursive or not. Valid values are Y and N. If this variable is set to N, only the files that are the immediate children of the restore target are restored. Y RESTORE_OVERWRITE Specifies whether the restore operation should overwrite existing files with the backup data. Valid values are Y and N.
16 Services and Ports FluidFS systems provide and access services through the ports listed in the following tables. Firewall settings should allow communication to and from these ports. Actual ports used depend on the enabled protocols and features. All port numbers are fixed unless specified otherwise. The services and ports listed in Table 24. Services Provided by FluidFS and Table 25. Services Accessed by FluidFS are accessed by FluidFS systems on the client network. Table 24.
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Management 17 This section provides management information about FluidFS systems. Events FluidFS can store up to 10 million system and SACL events. The actual amount depends on the amount of storage space configured by the administrator to hold event data. SNMP FluidFS supports SNMP version 2c. It also provides a custom MIB for integration with SNMP-based management frameworks.
Internationalization 18 This section provides information about supported Unicode characters and potential compatibility issues. NAS Access FluidFS v5.x supports the Unicode /UTF-8 encoding, allowing concurrent access from any UTF-8 compatible client. All NAS interfaces expect UTF-8 characters for file, folder/directory, share, and other names. Consequently, all names are internally maintained and managed in UTF-8 format.
