6.5 HP StoreAll 8200/9300 Storage Administrator Guide

Viewing host groups................................................................................................................73
Deleting host groups...............................................................................................................73
Other host group operations....................................................................................................73
Add preferred NIC.................................................................................................................73
Modify host group properties...................................................................................................73
Mount a file system to a host group...........................................................................................73
Host group mountpoints tab.....................................................................................................74
Host group preferred NICs.......................................................................................................74
8 Monitoring cluster operations.....................................................................75
Monitoring hardware..............................................................................................................75
Monitoring servers.............................................................................................................75
Monitoring hardware components........................................................................................79
Obtaining server details.................................................................................................79
Monitoring storage and storage components.........................................................................83
Managing LUNs in a storage cluster................................................................................84
Vendor Storage.................................................................................................................84
LUNs................................................................................................................................85
Modify vendor storage.......................................................................................................85
Monitoring the status of file serving nodes..................................................................................85
Monitoring cluster events.........................................................................................................86
Viewing events..................................................................................................................87
Removing events from the events database table....................................................................87
Monitoring cluster health.........................................................................................................88
Health checks....................................................................................................................88
Health check reports..........................................................................................................88
Viewing logs..........................................................................................................................92
Viewing operating statistics for file serving nodes........................................................................92
9 Maintaining the system.............................................................................94
Shutting down the system.........................................................................................................94
Shutting down the StoreAll software......................................................................................94
Powering off the hardware..................................................................................................95
Starting the system..................................................................................................................95
Starting the StoreAll software...............................................................................................95
Powering nodes on or off.........................................................................................................96
Performing a rolling reboot......................................................................................................96
Starting and stopping processes...............................................................................................97
Renaming a cluster.................................................................................................................97
Tuning nodes and StoreAll clients..............................................................................................98
Managing segments.............................................................................................................101
Migrating segments..........................................................................................................101
Evacuating segments and removing storage from the cluster ..................................................103
Removing a node from a cluster..............................................................................................106
Maintaining networks............................................................................................................107
Cluster and user network interfaces....................................................................................107
Adding user network interfaces..........................................................................................107
Setting network interface options in the configuration database..............................................109
Preferring network interfaces..............................................................................................109
Unpreferring network interfaces.........................................................................................110
Making network changes..................................................................................................110
Changing the IP address for a Linux StoreAll client...........................................................110
Changing the IP address for the cluster interface on a dedicated management console........111
Changing the cluster interface.......................................................................................111
Managing routing table entries.....................................................................................111
Adding a routing table entry....................................................................................111
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