Administrator Guide

Table Of Contents
File Metadata Protection......................................................................................................................................... 341
Load Balancing and High Availability..................................................................................................................... 341
Ports Used by the FluidFS Cluster........................................................................................................................342
FluidFS System Management for FS Series Appliances........................................................................................342
Seamless Session Failover...................................................................................................................................... 342
Using the Storage Manager Client or CLI to Connect to the FluidFS Cluster...........................................343
Managing Secured Management...........................................................................................................................344
Managing the FluidFS Cluster Name....................................................................................................................348
Accept the End-User License Agreement...........................................................................................................348
Managing the System Time....................................................................................................................................349
Managing the FTP Server....................................................................................................................................... 349
Managing SNMP....................................................................................................................................................... 350
Managing the Health Scan Throttling Mode...................................................................................................... 352
Managing the Operation Mode.............................................................................................................................. 352
Managing Client Connections................................................................................................................................ 353
Shutting Down and Restarting NAS Controllers............................................................................................... 355
Managing NAS Appliance and NAS Controller Blinking................................................................................... 356
FluidFS Networking........................................................................................................................................................ 357
Managing the Default Gateway............................................................................................................................. 357
Managing DNS Servers and Suffixes................................................................................................................... 357
Managing Static Routes..........................................................................................................................................359
Managing the Client Networks.............................................................................................................................. 360
Viewing the Fibre Channel WWNs........................................................................................................................364
Managing iSCSI SAN Connectivity....................................................................................................................... 365
Add or Remove an iSCSI Port................................................................................................................................365
Add or Remove an iSCSI Fabric............................................................................................................................ 365
Change the VLAN Tag for an iSCSI Fabric.........................................................................................................366
Change the NAS Controller IP Addresses for an iSCSI Fabric...................................................................... 366
FluidFS Account Management and Authentication................................................................................................ 366
Account Management and Authentication......................................................................................................... 366
Default Administrative Accounts...........................................................................................................................367
Default Local User and Local Group Accounts.................................................................................................. 369
Managing Administrator Accounts........................................................................................................................369
Managing Local Users and Groups Using MMC................................................................................................ 372
Managing Local Users.............................................................................................................................................. 372
Managing Local Groups........................................................................................................................................... 375
Managing Active Directory..................................................................................................................................... 378
Managing LDAP.........................................................................................................................................................380
Managing NIS.............................................................................................................................................................384
Managing User Mappings Between Windows and UNIX/Linux Users.........................................................385
FluidFS NAS Volumes, Shares, and Exports.............................................................................................................388
Managing the NAS Pool.......................................................................................................................................... 388
View Internal Storage Reservations..................................................................................................................... 388
View the Size of the NAS Pool..............................................................................................................................388
Expand the Size of the NAS Pool......................................................................................................................... 388
Set the Metadata Tier..............................................................................................................................................389
Enable or Disable the NAS Pool Used Space Alert........................................................................................... 389
Enable or Disable the NAS Pool Unused Space Alert.......................................................................................390
About Multitenancy.................................................................................................................................................. 390
Create a New Tenant...............................................................................................................................................393
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