NAS Administration Guides
- System Access Guide
- This guide explains how to log in to the system, provides information about accessing the NAS server/cluster CLI and the SMU CLI, and provides information about the documentation, help, and search capabilities available in the system.
- Considerations when using a NAS module
- User accounts
- Changing supervisor and root passwords
- Managing a server or cluster
- Using NAS Manager
- Server Status Console
- Using NAS Manager tables
- Accessing and navigating NAS Manager pages
- Disabling an embedded SMU
- Using the command line interface
- Restricting CLI commands
- Accessing the SMU command line interface
- Accessing the server/cluster command line reference
- Storage Subsystem Administration Guide
- This guide provides information about managing the supported storage subsystems attached to the server/cluster. The guide includes information about tiered storage, storage pools, system drives (SDs), using Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning (HDP) with the server, and other storage-related configuration and management features and functions.
- Understanding tiered storage
- Storage management components
- Supported Hitachi storage systems
- Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning
- Configuration considerations when using HDP with NAS
- Using HDP storage
- Thin provisioning using the NAS server filesystem-thin command
- System drive groups and dynamic write balancing
- Expanding storage pools
- Configuring automatic file system expansion for an entire storage pool
- Renaming a storage pool
- Reducing the size of a storage pool
- Denying access to a storage pool
- Deleting a storage pool
- Using compression with flash module drives (FMDs)
- Expanding file systems on flash storage
- Detecting free space on flash storage
- Using compression statistics
- Using UVM
- Taking over a UVM span
- Using multiple HDP pools
- Expanding a UVM-based filesystem
- Migrating data to a local cluster
- Network Administration Guide
- This guide provides information about the server's network usage, and explains how to configure network interfaces, IP addressing, name and directory services.
- File serving interfaces
- Non-file serving interfaces
- Jumbo frames support
- Default gateways
- Cluster switch configuration
- Static routes
- Dynamic routes
- Managing routes
- Routing by EVS
- Name services
- Directory services
- IPv6 overview
- IPv6 and the NAS server
- Viewing link aggregations
- Adding link aggregations
- Editing link aggregations
- Deleting link aggregations
- Configuring LACP
- Configuring aggregate Linux interfaces
- Adding VLAN interfaces
- Deleting VLAN interfaces
- Advanced VLAN interface configuration
- Viewing IP addresses
- Adding IP addresses
- Deleting IP addresses
- Advanced IP configuration
- Advanced IP configuration using the CLI
- Viewing IP routes
- Adding IP routes
- Deleting IP routes
- Specifying name services
- Prioritizing name services
- Configuring NIS servers
- Configuring LDAP servers
- Configuring non-file serving interfaces
- Configuring devices on the system monitor
- Network health information
- Detecting network issues
- Collecting network packets
- VLAN conversion
- Network ports
- Storage System User Administration Guide
- This guide explains user management, including the different types of system administrators, their roles, and how to create and manage users.
- Administrator types and responsibilities
- Read-only users
- Adding an SMU user (an administrator)
- Changing an SMU user profile
- Changing user passwords
- Active Directory user authentication
- Authenticating users from an Active Directory Forest
- Using Transport Layer Security (TLS) with Active Directory authentication
- Configuring Active Directory servers
- Configuring Active Directory groups
- User authentication through RADIUS servers (HNAS server only)
- Server and Cluster Administration Guide
- This guide provides information about administering servers, clusters, and server farms. Includes information about licensing, name spaces, upgrading firmware, monitoring servers and clusters, the backing up and restoring configurations.
- 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
- Cloning server settings (HNAS server only)
- Using the Server Setup Wizard
- Configuring server management access
- Configuring server identification
- Configuring server date and time
- Managing license keys
- Displaying storage server version information
- Clusters and server farms
- Clusters
- Server farms
- Using clusters
- Using cluster name space (CNS)
- Configuring read caching
- Secure virtual servers
- Secure EVS considerations
- 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)
- 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
- Management Auditing
- Available performance graphs
- Controlling the performance graph display
- Storage server statistics
- Event logging and notification
- Monitoring file system free space
- FTP auditing
- Monitoring Fibre Channel switches (HNAS server only)
- Generating a custom private key and SSL certificate
- Generating a certificate signing request (CSR)
- Accepting self-signing certificates
- Configuring cipher suites
- Configuring the SSL/TLS version
- Obtaining and importing a CA-signed certificate
- 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
- Overlapping IP address support for HNAS multi-tenancy
- Routing by EVS
- Configuring routes per EVS
- Understanding EVS crosstalk checking
- Multi-tenancy-aware protocols
- Management Auditing events
- File Services Administration Guide
- This guide explains about file system formats, and provides information about creating and managing file systems, and enabling and configuring file services (file service protocols).
- File system access protocols
- File system tiers
- Data spillage between tiers
- Confining new tiered file systems
- Supported file system limits
- Creating a new file system
- Read caches
- Dedupe File Systems
- Viewing available file systems
- Displaying file system details
- Monitoring file system operations
- Formatting a file system
- Standard bitmap support
- Mounting a file system
- Unmounting a file system
- Deleting a file system
- Undeleting a file system
- Cloning files and directory trees
- Deleting a tree directory with tree-delete
- Controlling file system space usage
- Using deduplication file system
- Managing file system quotas
- Managing quotas on virtual volumes
- Managing virtual volumes
- Using the per-file system throttle feature
- Creating a read cache file system
- Viewing file system security
- NFS security and Kerberos
- Kerberos principal formats
- Setting secure NFS
- Mixed security mode
- AES support for SMB
- SMB access to native SMB files
- NFS access to native NFS files
- Client access to non-native files
- UNIX security mode
- Changing security modes
- Mixed mode operation
- File system auditing
- Enabling NFS Protocol Support
- Supported NFS versions
- Configuring NFS exports
- About the rquotad service
- SMB protocol support
- Configuring SMB security
- Assigning SMB names
- Viewing SMB setup
- Joining an Active Directory
- Removing SMB server names
- Configuring local groups
- Local user authentication for SMB and FTP users
- Using local user authentication
- Configuring SMB shares
- Considerations when using Hyper-V
- Configuring the Service Witness Protocol
- Using Windows server management
- Restoring a previous version of a file
- FTP protocol support
- Configuring FTP preferences
- FTP statistics
- iSCSI support
- Configuring iSCSI
- Configuring iSCSI Logical Units
- Managing iSCSI logical units
- Configuring iSCSI security (mutual authentication)
- Accessing iSCSI storage
- Using Computer Manager to configure iSCSI storage
- HDP high-level process
- Understanding HDP thin provisioning
- Understanding how HDP works with HNAS
- Backup Administration Guide
- This guide provides information about configuring the server to work with NDMP, and making and managing NDMP backups. This guide also includes information about Hitachi NAS Synchronous Image Backup.
- LAN-free NDMP configuration
- LAN-based NDMP configuration
- Storage management applications
- Enabling and disabling NDMP
- About NDMP user name, password, and version
- Specifying an NDMP user name and password
- Enabling and disabling NDMP devices
- Modifying NDMP device access configuration
- About NDMP with snapshots
- Configuring NDMP snapshot options
- Configuring backup and restore of migrated data
- NDMP environment variables
- Snapshot Administration Guide
- This guide provides information about configuring the server to take and manage snapshots.
- Latest snapshot
- Accessing snapshots through NFS exports and SMB shares
- Creating snapshot rules
- Deleting snapshot rules
- Managing individual snapshots
- Managing snapshot rules
- Modifying snapshot rules
- Viewing snapshot schedules
- Snapshots and the volume shadow copy service (VSS)
- Accessing shadow copies initiated by VSS
- Removing VSS initiated shadow copies
- VSS restrictions
- Configuring the NAS server for VSS shadow copies
- Replication and Disaster Recovery Administration Guide
- This guide provides information about replicating data using file-based replication and object-based replication, provides information on setting up replication policies and schedules, and using replication features for disaster recovery purposes.
- File replication and object replication
- Policy-based replication
- Incremental replication
- Multiple stream replication
- Transferring XVLs as links during object replication
- Relocating file systems
- Supported replication applications
- Replication and disaster recovery
- Configuring policy-based file replication
- Understanding snapshot rules
- Understanding custom replication scripts
- Using file replication rules
- Understanding files-to-exclude statements
- Displaying scheduled file replications
- Understanding incremental replications
- Displaying file replication status and reports
- Enabling multiple replication streams
- Configuring NDMP performance options
- Troubleshooting replication failures
- Configuring object-based replication
- Asynchronous replication from a secondary to a tertiary target
- Configuring tertiary replication targets
- Read only access to replication target file systems
- NDMP access to object replication target file systems
- Using object replication policies
- Using object replication schedules
- Displaying object replication policies
- Displaying object replication status and reports
- How a transfer of primary access moves CNS links
- Process of transferring primary access
- Storage-based mirroring overview
- Storage-based mirroring terminology
- Configuring storage-based mirrors
- Updating a mirror
- Performing failover on a mirror
- Recovering from loss of production SDs
- Copy-on-Write copyback
- Removing a single mirror relationship
- Removing all mirror relationships
- Mounting two copies of the data on different clusters
- Tolerating primary-primary relationships
- Secondary SD warnings
- Dealing with SSWS
- Data Migrator Administration Guide
- This guide provides information about the Data Migrator feature, including how to set up migration policies and schedules.
- Advantages of using Data Migrator
- Data migration paths
- Types of migration targets
- Cross volume links in Data Migrator
- Cross volume link format considerations
- Data Migrator licenses
- Adding a license key
- Configuring Data Migrator
- Data Migrator considerations
- Viewing data migration paths
- Viewing data migration rules
- Viewing data migration policies and schedules
- Data Migration status and reports
- Migration to HCP Systems
- Configuring Data Migrator to Cloud
- About cloud accounts and destinations
- Adding a cloud account
- Adding a cloud destination
- Viewing cloud accounts and destinations
- Viewing Cloud Account Details
- Viewing Cloud Destination Details
- Viewing data migration paths
- Viewing data migration rules
- Viewing data migration policies and schedules
- Data Migration status and reports
- Cloud data migration and replication considerations
- Introduction to HCP no delete feature
- HCP no delete functionality
- Creating specific and detailed migration rules
- Overview of Universal Migrator Capacity Based (UMC) license
- Hitachi NAS Universal Migrator Terms
- Pre-migration considerations for Hitachi NAS Universal Migrator
- Setting up LNAS and HNAS for virtualization
- Troubleshooting Hitachi NAS Universal Migrator
- Hitachi NAS Universal Migrator Console Commands
- Antivirus Administration Guide
- This guide describes the supported antivirus engines, provides information about how to enable them, and how to configure the system to use them.