Content Software for File User Guide

Version: 4.0.x
Audience: anonymous
Part Number: MK-HCSF000-02

About the Content Software for File system
Basic Content Software for File system deployment
Features
Protection
Distributed network scheme
Failed component replacement as a background process
Failure domains
Prioritized data rebuild process
Seamless distribution, scale, and performance
Data reduction
Converged Content Software for File system deployment
Selecting a redundancy scheme
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
Thin provisioning
Filesystem limits
Encrypted filesystems
Metadata limitations
Metadata units calculation
About object stores
About filesystem groups
networking
Overview
Performance-optimized networking (DPDK)
DPDK
SR-IOV
CPU-optimized networking
DPDK without core dedication
UDP mode
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
The Content Software for File system client
Read cache mount mode
Write cache mount mode (default)
Multiple mounts on a single host
Key terms
Typical Content Software for File configuration
Backend hosts
Backend hosts with DPDK-supporting Mellanox and Intel E810 NICs
Backend hosts with DPDK-supporting the other NICs
Client hosts
Client hosts with DPDK-supporting Mellanox and Intel E810 NICs
Client hosts with DPDK-supporting the other NICs
Client hosts in UDP mode
High availability (HA)
RDMA and GPUDirect storage
Limitations
Managing the system using the GUI
GUI overview
Accessing the Content Software for File GUI
System Dashboard
Cluster Protection and Availability widget
R/W Throughput widget
Top Consumer widget
Alerts widget
Capacity widget
Core Usage widget
Hardware widget
Switch the display time
Managing filesystems and object stores
Overview
Managing object stores
Editing default object stores using the GUI
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
Attachment of a local object store bucket to a filesystem
Detachment of a local object store bucket from a filesystem
Migration to a different object store
Un-tiering a filesystem
Migration considerations
Attaching a remote object store bucket
Detaching a remote object store bucket
Attaching an object store bucket to a filesystem using the GUI
Detaching an object store bucket from a filesystem using the GUI
Advanced data lifecycle management
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
Object tagging
Transition between tiered and SSD-only filesystems
Transition from SSD-only filesystem to tiered filesystem
Transition from tiered filesystem to SSD-only filesystem
Snapshots
About snapshots
Managing snapshots using the GUI
Viewing snapshots using the GUI
Creating a snapshot using the GUI
Duplicate a snapshot
Deleting a snapshot using the GUI
Restore a snapshot to a filesystem or another snapshot
Updating a snapshot using the GUI
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
Snap-to-object
Snap-To-Object feature use cases
External backup of data
Archiving data
Asynchronous data replication
Cloud pause/restart
Data protection against cloud availability zone failures
Migration of filesystems to another region
Snap-to-object in data lifecycle management
Quota management
Overview
Directory quotas
Working with quotas
Integration with the df utility
NFS
Workflow: Deploy NFS service with a Content Software for File client software
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
NFS service load balancing and resiliency
Managing NFS networking configuration (interface groups)
Creating interface groups using the GUI
Setting interface group ports using the GUI
Removing an Interface Group Port using the GUI
Setting interface group IPs using the GUI
Removing an 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
Removing the DNS or IP of a client group using the GUI
Managing NFS client permissions
SMB
About SMB
SMB implementation key features
SMB user-mapping
Active Directory attributes
Configuring SMB
Work flow
Establishing an SMB cluster
Configuring the round-robin DNS server
Creating SMB shares
Filesystem permissions and access rights
Integration with previous versions of Windows
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
Displaying the SMB shares list using the GUI
Adding an SMB share using the GUI
Removing an SMB share using the GUI
Alerts
Overview
Manage alerts using the GUI
Viewing alerts using the GUI
Muting alerts
Unmute alerts
List of alerts
Events
Overview
Managing events using the GUI
Viewing events using the GUI
Filtering events using the GUI
List of events
Alerts
Cloud
Clustering
Config
Custom
Drive
Events
Filesystem
IO
InterfaceGroup
KMS
Licensing
ManualOverride
NFS
Network
Node
ObjectStorage
Org
RAID
Resources
Security
SMB
Statistics
System
Traces
Upgrade
User
Statistics
Overview
Drill-down options
Working with statistics using the GUI
Viewing statistics
Adding a chart to the statistics page
Removing a chart from the statistics page
Setting the timeframe
Displaying events from a chart
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 (NFSw)
Operations(driver)
Operations
RAFT
RAID
RPC
Reactor
SSD
Scrubber
Squelch
Statistics
System congestion
Overview
System congestion events or alerts
Security management
Obtaining authentication tokens
Generating an access token for API usage (for internal users only)
KMS management
Overview
KMS best practices
Managing KMS using the GUI
Adding a KMS
Viewing the KMS
Updating the KMS configuration
Removing the KMS
TLS certificate management
Managing the TLS certificate using the GUI
Account lockout threshold policy management
Manage the account lockout threshold policy using GUI
Managing the login banner
Managing the login banner using the GUI
User management
Types of users
Cluster Admin (the first user)
Cluster admin role privileges
Managing users using the GUI
Manage local users
Creating a local user
Editing a local user
Changing a local user password
Changing your own password
Revoking local user tokens
Remove a local user
Managing user directory
Configuring LDAP
Configuring Active Directory
Managing users using the CLI
Creating users
Changing user password
Deleting users
User log in
Organizations management
Organization management use cases
Private cloud multi-tenancy
Logical separation of external groups of users
Cluster level entities
Organization level entities
Managing organizations
Usage and quota management
Organization admin role privileges
Managing organizations using the GUI
Creating an organization using the GUI
Viewing organizations
Editing an organization
Deleting an organization
Mount authentication for organization filesystems
Mounting a filesystem using the CLI
Mount authentication‌
Expanding and shrinking cluster resources
Expand and shrink overview
Planning an expansion or shrink
Possible expansion options
Expansion limitations
Cluster expansion process

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