Content Software for File User Guide

Version: 3.9.x
Audience: anonymous
Part Number: MK-HCSF000-00

Overview of Content Software for File Solution
Basic Content Software for File deployment
Features
Protection
Distributed network scheme
Failed component replacement as a background process
Failure domains
Prioritized data rebuild process
Seamless distribution, scale, and performance
Converged Content Software for File system deployment
Deployment redundancy schemes
SSD capacity management
Deductions from raw capacity to obtain net storage capacity
Formula for calculating SSD net storage capacity
Filesystems, object stores, and filesystem groups
About filesystems
Encrypted filesystems
Metadata limitations
Metadata calculations
About object stores
About Hitachi Content Platform object stores
About Hitachi Content Platform for cloud scale object stores
About filesystem groups
Networking
Networking overview
Performance-optimized networking
Data Plane Development Kit
CPU-optimized networking (UDP mode)
Typical Content Software for File configuration
Backend hosts
Backend hosts with DPDK-supporting Mellanox NICs
Client hosts
Client hosts with DPDK-supporting Mellanox NICs
High availability (HA)
RDMA and GPUDirect storage
Limitations
Data lifecycle management
Media options for data storage in the Content Software for File system
Guidelines for data storage in tiered Content Software for File system configurations
States in the Content Software for File system data management storage process
The role of SSDs in tiered Content Software for File configurations
Metadata processing
SSD as a staging area
SSD as a cache
Time-based policies for the control of a data storage location
Bypassing the time-based policies
Content Software for File client and mount modes
Content Software for File system client
Read cache mount mode
Write cache mount mode (default)
Multiple mounts on a single host
Accessing the GUI
GUI overview
Object stores, filesystem groups, and filesystems
Overview
Managing object stores
Viewing object stores using the GUI
Adding an object store using the GUI
Editing an object store using the GUI
Deleting an object store using the GUI
Managing filesystem groups
Viewing filesystem groups using the GUI
Adding a filesystem group using the GUI
Editing a filesystem group using the GUI
Deleting a filesystem group using the GUI
Managing filesystems
Viewing filesystems using the GUI
Adding a filesystem using the GUI
Editing a filesystem using the GUI
Deleting a filesystem using the GUI
Attaching or detaching object stores to or from filesystems
Attaching an object store to a filesystem
Detaching an object store from a filesystem
Migrating to a different object store
Un-tiering a filesystem
Migration considerations
Attaching or detaching object stores
KMS management
Overview
Managing KMS using the GUI
Adding a KMS
Viewing the KMS
Updating the KMS configuration
Removing the KMS
KMS best practices
Setting-up Vault configuration
Enabling transit secret engine in Vault
Setting-up the master key for the system
Creating a policy for master key permissions
Obtaining an API token from Vault
Obtaining a certificate for a KMIP-based KMS
Advanced data lifecycle management
Overview
Advanced time-based policies for data storage location
Data retention period policy
Tiering cue policy
Management of data retention policies
Data release process from SSD to object store
Tiering cue
Breaks in retention period or tiering cue policies
Object-store direct mount option
Data management in tiered filesystems
Overview
Space reclamation in tiered filesystems
SSD space reclamation
Object store space reclamation
Transition between tiered and SSD-only filesystems
Transition from SSD-only filesystem to tiered filesystem
Transition from tiered filesystem to SSD-only filesystem
Mounting filesystems
Overview
Traditional method for mounting a filesystem
Mounting filesystems using the stateless clients feature
Invoking the mount command
Additional mount options available using stateless clients
Advanced network configuration using mount options
IP, subnet, gateway, and virtual functions
Multiple physical network devices for performance and HA
Using multiple physical network devices for better performance
Using multiple physical network devices for HA configuration
Advanced mounting options for multiple physical network devices
UDP mode
Mounting filesystems using fstab
Mounting filesystems using autofs
Snapshots
About snapshots
Managing snapshots
Viewing snapshots using the GUI
Creating a snapshot using the GUI
Deleting a snapshot using the GUI
Restoring a filesystem from a snapshot
Updating a snapshot using the GUI
Working with snapshots
Snap-to-object
About snap-to-object
Generic use cases (on-premises)
Use cases for the snap-to-object feature
External backup of data
Archiving of data
Asynchronous mirroring of data
Snap-to-object in data lifecycle management
Working with snapshots
Snapshot management
Uploading a snapshot using the GUI
Creating a filesystem from an uploaded snapshot
Deleting snapshots residing on an object store
NFS support
Overview
Defining the NFS networking configuration (interface groups)
Implementing NFS service from a Content Software for File cluster
Configuring the round-robin DNS server
Defining NFS access control (client access groups)
Configuring NFS on the client
Load balancing and resiliency of the NFS service
Managing NFS networking configuration (interface groups)
Defining interface groups using the GUI
Setting interface group ports using the GUI
Setting interface group IPs using the GUI
Managing NFS access control (client access groups)
Defining client access groups using the GUI
Managing client access groups using the GUI
Managing NFS client permissions
Supported mount options for NFS clients
Non-coherent mount options
Coherent mount options
Common mount options
Fixed mount options
SMB support
About SMB
Key features of Content Software for File implementation of SMB
SMB user-mapping
Active Directory attributes
Configuring SMB support
Work flow
Establishing an SMB cluster
Configuring the round-robin DNS server
Creating SMB shares
Filesystem permissions and access rights
Integration with Windows previous versions
SMB management using the GUI
Configuring an SMB cluster using the GUI
Joining the SMB cluster to an Active Directory using the GUI
Deleting an SMB cluster using the GUI
Listing SMB shares using the GUI
Adding an SMB share using the GUI
Removing an SMB share using the GUI
Alerts
Overview
Working with alerts using the GUI
Viewing alerts
Muting alerts
List of alerts
Events
Overview
Working with events using the GUI
Viewing events
Filtering events
List of events
Alerts
Clustering
Config
Custom
Drive
Events
Filesystem
IO
InterfaceGroup
KMS
Licensing
NFS
Network
Node
ObjectStorage
Org
RAID
Resources
SMB
Statistics
System
Upgrade
User
Statistics
Overview
Working with statistics using the GUI
Viewing statistics
Adding statistics
Hiding or deleting statistics
Specifying a time frame
Obtaining a summary of events
List of statistics
Attribute cache
Block cache
Block writes
Bucket
Bucket failovers
Bucket rebalances
CPU
Chocking
Clients
Config
Filesystem OBS
Frontend
Frontend encryption
Garbage collection
JRPC
Journal
Memory
Network
Object storage
Operations(NFS)
Operations(driver)
Operations
RAFT
RAID
RPC
Reactor
SSD
Scrubber
Squelch
Statistics
System congestion
Overview
System congestion events or alerts
User management
Types of users
First user (cluster admin)
Cluster admin role privileges
Managing users
Creating users
Changing user password
Deleting users
User log in
Authenticating users from an LDAP user directory
Configuring an LDAP user directory
Viewing a configured LDAP user directory
Disabling or enabling a configured LDAP user directory
Organizations
Overview
Use cases for working with organizations
Private cloud multi-tenancy
Logical separation of external groups of users
Cluster level entities
Organization level entities
Managing organizations
Usage and quota management
Managing organizations using the GUI
Organization admin role privileges
Mount authentication for organization filesystems
Expanding and shrinking cluster resources
Expand and shrink overview
About expanding and shrinking cluster
Planning an expansion or shrink
Possible expansion options
Expansion limitations
Cluster expansion process
Container storage interface (CSI) plugin
CSI plugin overview
Interoperability
Prerequisites
Capabilities
Supported capabilities
Unsupported capabilities
Deployment
Download
Installation
Provision usage
Storage class example
Storage class parameters
Dynamic provisioning
Persistent volume claim example
Persistent volume claim parameters
Static provisioning
Persistent volume example
Persistent volume parameters
Persistent volume claim for static provisioning example
Launching an application using CSF as the POD's storage
Troubleshooting
Known issues

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