Administrator Guide

FluidFS System Management for FS Series

Appliances

This section contains information about basic FluidFS cluster system management. These tasks are performed using the Dell Storage

Manager Client

NAS Access

FluidFS v6.x supports the Unicode /UTF-8 encoding, allowing concurrent access from any UTF-8 compatible client. All NAS

interfaces expect UTF-8 characters for le, folder/directory, share, and other names.

Consequently, all names are internally maintained and managed in UTF-8 format. While individual le and directory names are each

limited to 255 bytes, the number of characters might be further limited, due to the variable-width nature of the UTF-8 encoding.

Management Access

Management data items, such as volume names, share names, directory names, user names, description elds, and so on, are all

maintained in UTF-8 format.

For CLI access, UTF-8 terminal applications, such as XTERM, should be used. Terminal applications that do not support UTF-8

characters, such as KTERM, are not recommended.

Seamless Session Failover

Seamless session failover decreases the client connection timeout. With seamless session failover, you can easily move a connection

between cluster controllers. This feature sends a connection reset packet to the dropped client to immediately terminate a session

with a failed controller. The client will then reestablish the session with the new controller and the connection will resume.

View Open Files

You can view up to 1,000 open les.

1. In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster

2. Click the File System tab.

3. the File System view, select Client Activity.

4. Click the Open Files tab. The Open Files Display Filter panel displays a list of the open les.

Filter Open Files

You can lter open les by le sux, user, protocol, or maximum number of open les to display.

1. In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.

2. Click the File System tab.

3. In the File System view, select Client Activity.

4. Click the Open Files tab.

5. In the Open Files Display Filter panel, ll in one or more of the elds listed (File Sux, User, Protocol, or Maximum Open Files to

Display).

6. Click Apply Filter/Refresh. The panel displays a new list of open les.

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