Typical Content Software for File configuration

Content Software for File User Guide

Version: 4.2.x
Audience: anonymous
Part Number: MK-HCSF000-03

About the Content Software for File system
Basic Content Software for File system deployment
Features
Protection
Distributed network scheme
Efficient component replacement
Enhanced fault tolerance with failure domains
Prioritized data rebuild process
Seamless distribution, scaling, and enhanced performance
Efficient data reduction
Converged Content Software for File system deployment
Optimize redundancy in Content Software for File deployments
SSD capacity management
Deductions from raw capacity to obtain net storage capacity
SSD net storage capacity calculation
Filesystems, object stores, and filesystem groups
About filesystems
Thin provisioning
Filesystem limits
Data reduction in filesystems
How data reduction operates
Encrypted filesystems
Metadata limitations
Metadata units calculation
Filesystem Extended Attributes considerations
Introduction to object stores
Introduction to filesystem groups
Content Software for File 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 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
Metadata management
Key terms
Typical Content Software for File configuration
Backend servers
Clients
Configuration guidelines
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
Switch the GUI between light and dark modes
Display servers in 3D view
Display tables
Advanced data lifecycle management
Advanced time-based policies for data storage location
Drive retention period policy
Tiering cue policy
Management of drive 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 in tiered filesystems
Object store space reclamation in tiered filesystems
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
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 and tiering
Quota management
Overview
Directory quotas
Working with quotas
Integration with the df utility
Security management
Obtaining authentication tokens
Manage long lived tokens for REST API usage
KMS management
Overview
KMS integration best practices
Managing KMS using the GUI
Snapshots considerations
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
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

Product configuration is described for:

Backend servers.
Backend hosts with DPDK-supporting Mellanox NICs.

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