Administrator Guide

• If the SAN network failed, the Modify SAN network page opens.
• If the client network failed, the Modify client network page opens.
You can change any of the settings that were not already stored in the system on these pages. Click OK to accept your changes.
Click Retry. If the network conguration fails again, contact your customer support representative.
Validation Failure
Description: You see a system validation error or similar error message.
NOTE: If you are using the minimum network conguration (not supported for production environments), ignore this
error and click Continue to resume the NAS cluster conguration.
If you are using the recommended network conguration, click the error message to display details. For example:
• Disconnected cable
Verify the cable connections for your hardware conguration.
• HW mismatch error
Contact your customer service representative.
• BPS error
Check the BPS connectivity to the power grid and to the NAS controllers. Then, click Retry. If the validation fails again, contact
your customer support representative.
• IPMI error
NOTE: For the FluidFS 7500 only, ensure that the IPMI port (lower-left corner of the NAS controller back panel) is
connected to the SAN switch stack. Then, click Retry. If the validation fails again, contact your customer support
representative.
• Network error
Follow the recommendations above for handling a network conguration failure and ensure that the switches are congured for
jumbo frames.
Click Retry. If the validation fails again, contact your customer support representative.
Format Failure
If you experience a failure during the format operation:
1. Click Volumes in the lower-left corner of the Group Manager window.
2. Expand Volumes in the tree, select a NAS volume (the NAS volume name is prepended with the NAS cluster name), and then
click the Access tab.
3. Repeat this task for each NAS volume. Each NAS controller should have one or four iSCSI connections to each NAS volume,
depending on the number of SAN access IP addresses that you specied for each NAS controller.
4. If you do not see the required number of connections, check all your network connections.
5. Click Retry. If the format operation fails again, contact your customer support representative.
NAS Cluster Post-Setup Tasks
After you congure a NAS cluster, perform these tasks:
• Review NAS cluster information.
This information includes status, space utilization, member information, and network conguration.
• Add NAS cluster IP addresses.
If the NAS cluster client network is a routed network, you can modify the client network conguration and add more NAS cluster
IP addresses for proper load balancing across multiple client subnets.
• Congure local users and groups to control access to SMB shares, SMB home shares, and NFS exports.
The NAS cluster authenticates local users and groups.
NAS Cluster Operations
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