Administrator Guide
FS8600 Scale-Out NAS Terminology....................................................................................................................352
Key Features of the Scale-Out NAS..................................................................................................................... 353
Overview of the FS8600 Hardware...................................................................................................................... 354
Overview of the FS8600 Architecture................................................................................................................. 355
Data Caching and Redundancy..............................................................................................................................356
File Metadata Protection........................................................................................................................................ 356
Load Balancing and High Availability......................................................................................................................357
Ports Used by the FluidFS Cluster........................................................................................................................ 358
FluidFS System Management for FS Series Appliances...........................................................................................358
NAS Access..............................................................................................................................................................358
Management Access...............................................................................................................................................358
Seamless Session Failover......................................................................................................................................358
Using the Storage Manager Client or CLI to Connect to the FluidFS Cluster.................................................358
Managing Secured Management.......................................................................................................................... 360
Managing the FluidFS Cluster Name.................................................................................................................... 363
Accept the End-User License Agreement............................................................................................................364
Managing the System Time....................................................................................................................................364
Managing the FTP Server...................................................................................................................................... 365
Managing SNMP..................................................................................................................................................... 366
Managing the Health Scan Throttling Mode........................................................................................................368
Managing the Operation Mode..............................................................................................................................368
Managing Client Connections................................................................................................................................369
Shutting Down and Restarting NAS Controllers...................................................................................................371
Managing NAS Appliance and NAS Controller Blinking.......................................................................................372
FluidFS Networking....................................................................................................................................................... 373
Managing the Default Gateway..............................................................................................................................373
Managing DNS Servers and Suxes.....................................................................................................................373
Managing Static Routes..........................................................................................................................................375
Managing the Client Networks.............................................................................................................................. 376
Viewing the Fibre Channel WWNs........................................................................................................................ 380
Managing iSCSI SAN Connectivity........................................................................................................................ 381
Add or Remove an iSCSI Port.................................................................................................................................381
Add or Remove an iSCSI Fabric..............................................................................................................................381
Change the VLAN Tag for an iSCSI Fabric...........................................................................................................382
Change the NAS Controller IP Addresses for an iSCSI Fabric...........................................................................382
FluidFS Account Management and Authentication...................................................................................................382
Account Management and Authentication...........................................................................................................382
Default Administrative Accounts............................................................................................................................383
Default Local User and Local Group Accounts.................................................................................................... 385
Managing Administrator Accounts........................................................................................................................ 385
Managing Local Users and Groups Using MMC..................................................................................................388
Managing Local Users.............................................................................................................................................389
Managing Local Groups........................................................................................................................................... 391
Managing Active Directory..................................................................................................................................... 394
Managing LDAP.......................................................................................................................................................396
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