Server and Cluster Administration Guide for Hitachi NAS Platform

Version: 14.6.x
Audience: anonymous
Part Number: MK-92HNAS010-31

Configuring the System Management Unit (SMU)
Using the SMU Setup Wizard
Configuring SMU security (HNAS server only)
Configuring SMU security (NAS module only)
Disabling protocols and cipher suites
Configuring an SMTP relay for the SMU
Displaying the SMU software version
Selecting SMU-managed servers
Changing the IP address of a managed server
Using the SMU as an NTP server
Configuring the storage server
Cloning server settings (HNAS server only)
Using the Server Setup Wizard
Configuring server management access
Setting the server password
Configuring SSC access
Configuring SNMP access
Configuring SNMPv3 access
Configuring server identification
Configuring server date and time
Storage server and NTP server interaction
Configuring storage server date and time
Managing license keys
Adding a license key
License types
Server capacity limits
Displaying storage server version information
Clustering
Clusters and server farms
Clusters versus server farms
Clusters
N-way clusters
Maximum number of nodes supported
Quorum device in a cluster configuration
Enhanced cluster quorum device
Cluster topology
VSP N series and VSP Gx00 and Fx00 storage systems with NAS modules
GAD Enhanced for NAS
Cluster Annotations
Using the cluster annotation commands
Configuring the NAS server for cluster annotations
Retrieving cluster annotations using HTTP/HTTPS
Server farms
Using clusters
Cluster name space (CNS)
EVS name spaces
About cluster licensing
Creating a new cluster using NAS Manager
Configuring the first cluster node
Adding a node to an existing cluster using NAS Manager
Configuring the cluster
Displaying cluster node details
Quorum device management (external NAS Manager only)
Using cluster name space (CNS)
CNS usage considerations
Displaying the cluster name space tree
Displaying the EVS name space tree
Managing links and subdirectories in the EVS name space
Creating a cluster name space tree
Creating a CNS root directory
Creating CNS subdirectories
Creating a file system link
Changing cluster name space properties
Deleting a cluster name space
Renaming a CNS subdirectory
Moving a CNS directory
Deleting a CNS directory
Modifying a file system link
Deleting a file system link
Configuring read caching
Configuring file caching options
Reviewing read cache statistics
Displaying read cache statistics
Deleting a read cache
Read cache considerations
Using virtual servers (EVSs)
Secure virtual servers
Secure EVS considerations
About security contexts
Security context contents
Securing an EVS
Removing an individual security context from a secure EVS
EVS name spaces
Creating an EVS
Assigning a file system to an EVS
Virtual server (EVS) management
Displaying EVS details
Migrating an EVS within a cluster
EVS migration within a server farm (HNAS server only)
Cloning server settings
Migrating an EVS within a server farm
Status and monitoring
Storage system status
Configuring devices on the System Monitor
Checking the system status
Performance Information Reporting (PIR)
Using the server status console
Checking the status of a server unit
Checking SMU status
Monitoring multiple servers (HNAS server only)
Monitoring storage subsystems with Hitachi Device Manager
Managing HDvM server connections
Connecting the NAS Manager to an HDvM server
Changing HDvM server connection details
Removing HDvM server connections
Management Auditing
Restarting an unresponsive server
Performance graphs
Available performance graphs
Controlling the performance graph display
Displaying a custom date range
Displaying the Performance Graphs page
Displaying Node Ops/Sec
Displaying Ethernet Throughput
Displaying System Load
Displaying Disk Latency
Displaying Storage Throughput
Displaying Cache and Heap Usage
Displaying NVRAM Waited Allocs
Displaying Running Network Receive Fibers
Displaying File System Ops/Sec
Displaying File System Capacity
Displaying Storage Pool Capacity
Downloading performance data
Storage server statistics
Network statistics
Ethernet statistics
Displaying Ethernet Statistics
Displaying aggregated ports or per-port Ethernet statistics
TCP/IP Statistics
Displaying TCP/IP statistics
Displaying aggregated ports or per-port TCP/IP statistics
Displaying TCP/IP detailed statistics
Fibre Channel statistics
Displaying Fibre Channel statistics
Displaying per port Fibre Channel statistics
File and block protocol statistics
Displaying NFS statistics
Displaying CIFS statistics
Displaying FTP statistics
Displaying iSCSI statistics
Data access and performance statistics
Server and file system load statistics
Displaying operations per second (ops/sec) statistics
Displaying file system NVRAM statistics
Management statistics
Displaying access management statistics
Displaying SNMP management statistics
Displaying HTTPS management statistics
Displaying VSS management statistics
Displaying virus scanning statistics
Event logging and notification
Using the event log
Displaying and filtering the event log
Configuring critical events
Configuring event notifications
Using email alerts
Daily status emails
Adding an email profile
Managing email alerts and profiles
Using SNMP and syslog
SNMP statistics
Management information base (MIB)
Implementing SNMP security
Sending SNMP traps
Configuring syslog notifications
Testing alert configurations
Clearing logs with Windows Event Viewer
Monitoring file system free space
FTP auditing
Displaying FTP Audit Logs page
Enabling or disabling FTP audit logging for an EVS
Configuring FTP audit logging
Displaying FTP audit logs
Monitoring Fibre Channel switches (HNAS server only)
Displaying Fibre Channel switch connectivity status
Using System Monitor to display switch connectivity status
Using NAS Manager to display switch connectivity status
Adding FC switches
Displaying or changing details for an FC switch
Optimizing performance with Performance Accelerator
Determining if Performance Accelerator will increase system performance
Installing Performance Accelerator
Uninstalling Performance Accelerator
Troubleshooting Performance Accelerator
Verifying that the throughput component of Performance Accelerator is enabled
Verifying that the IOPS component of Performance Accelerator is enabled
Disabling the throughput component
Disabling the IOPS component
If the throughput component is not enabled when the license is installed
Providing an SSL certificate to the external SMU
Generating a custom private key and SSL certificate
Generating a certificate signing request (CSR)
Installing certificates (on an external SMU)
Recreating the default SMU certificate
Accepting self-signing certificates
Providing an SSL certificate to the NAS Nodes
Configuring cipher suites
Configuring the SSL/TLS version
Obtaining and importing a CA-signed certificate
Importing a CA-signed certificate with an externally generated private key
Using HNAS multi-tenancy
Understanding multi-tenancy
Understanding HNAS multi-tenancy benefits
How multi-tenancy mode differs from stand-alone mode
How multi-tenancy differs from per-EVS security
Multi-tenancy requirements
Disabling HNAS multi-tenancy
Managing multi-tenancy
Multi-tenancy management interfaces
Viewing HNAS multi-tenancy status
Considerations for enabling HNAS multi-tenancy
HNAS multi-tenancy limits
Enabling HNAS multi-tenancy
Managing multi-tenancy on the NAS server
Managing multi-tenancy for an EVS
Overlapping IP address support for HNAS multi-tenancy
Routing by EVS
Configuring routes per EVS
Understanding EVS crosstalk checking
Multi-tenancy-aware protocols
Introduction to Management Audit events
Management Auditing events

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