Administrator Guide

Viewing Data Reduction Savings
Storage Manager displays data reduction savings for individual NAS volumes and for the FluidFS cluster.
View Data Reduction Savings for a FluidFS Cluster
View the amount (in megabytes) and percentage of storage space reclaimed for a FluidFS cluster as a result of data reduction processing.
1 In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.
2 Click the File System tab.
The FluidFS NAS Pool Status panel displays the data reduction savings.
View Data Reduction Savings for a NAS Volume
View the amount (in megabytes) of storage space reclaimed for a NAS volume as a result of data reduction processing.
1 In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.
2 Click the File System tab.
3 In the File System view, expand NAS Volumes and select a NAS volume.
The NAS Volume Status panel displays the data reduction savings.
FluidFS Data Protection
This section contains information about protecting FluidFS cluster data. Data protection is an important and integral part of any storage
infrastructure. These tasks are performed using the Storage Manager Client.
Managing Antivirus
The FluidFS cluster antivirus service provides real-time antivirus scanning of les stored in SMB shares. The antivirus service applies only to
SMB shares; NFS is not supported. The scan operation is transparent to the client, subject to the availability of an antivirus server.
Files are scanned when a client tries to read or execute the le.
The antivirus service consists of two components:
• Antivirus servers — one or more network-accessible computers running a supported third-party, ICAP-enabled antivirus application to
provide the antivirus scanning service to the FluidFS cluster.
• A FluidFS cluster antivirus scanning policy species le extensions and directories to exclude from scans, an antivirus scanning le size
threshold, and whether to allow or deny access to les larger than the le size threshold.
When an SMB share client requests a le from the FluidFS cluster, the cluster passes the le to an antivirus server for scanning and then
takes one of the following actions:
• If the le is virus-free, the FluidFS cluster permits client access. The FluidFS cluster does not scan that le again, providing it remains
unmodied since the last check.
• If the le is infected, the FluidFS cluster denies client access. The client does not know that the le is infected. Therefore:
– A le access returns a system-specic file not found state for a missing le, depending on the client's computer.
– An access denial might be interpreted as a le permissions problem.
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