Dell DX6000G Configuration Manual

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DX Storage Cluster File Server (CFS) Setup and Configuration Guide Version 2.6 ...

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DX Storage Cluster File Server (CFS) Setup and Configuration Guide: Version 2.6 Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All Rights Reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced, transmitted, or transcribed without the written consent of Caringo, Inc. ...

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved iii Version 2.6 February 2011 Table of Contents 1. Welcome to DX Storage CFS ............................................................................................... 1 1.1. Overview of DX Sto...

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 1 Version 2.6 February 2011 Chapter 1. Welcome to DX Storage CFS 1.1. Overview of DX Storage CFS DX Storage Cluster File Server (CFS) is a native DX Storage application that presents a DX Storage cl...

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 2 Version 2.6 February 2011 Chapter 2. Installation and Guided Configuration 2.1. Requirements 2.1.1. Operating System DX Storage CFS has been developed and tested with 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Lin...

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 3 Version 2.6 February 2011 directories critical to recovering from a failure. Specifically, the following 3 directories should be mounted with 'nodelalloc': mount /dev/sdxx /var/lib/dht -...

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 4 Version 2.6 February 2011 # cns-admin Note: Please make sure DX Storage is online and reachable prior to configuring the new name space. cns-admin will prompt for the following values: 1. Log faci...

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 5 Version 2.6 February 2011 Cluster secondary node address: Enter the IP address or hostname for a second DX Storage node in the target cluster for redundancy. The target cluster must be the same as...

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 6 Version 2.6 February 2011 Note The name space must remain online at all times to ensure CFS can obtain the needed file system information. If CFS cannot connect to the name space, it will start th...

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 7 Version 2.6 February 2011 b. Syslog facility. If the syslog option was selected, enter the facility to log to. The default value is local4. Configuration of a remote syslog host must be done in th...

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 8 Version 2.6 February 2011 Cluster primary node address: Enter the IP address or hostname of a DX Storage node in the target cluster. The target cluster must be the same as the one configured for t...

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 9 Version 2.6 February 2011 2.2.4.1. ACLs The cfs-admin mkfs utility does not by default enable Access Control Lists or ACLs. ACLs provide more fine-grained file and directory access control than th...

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 10 Version 2.6 February 2011 2.4.3. Upgrading from Version 2.5 Version 2.5 Red Hat installations can upgrade to 2.6 by stopping all services, installing the new version and then restarting services....

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 11 Version 2.6 February 2011 descriptive error is not passed through to the client. Check the syslog for a full description of the possible errors if the uninstall is unsuccessful. 2.6. Restoring CF...

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 12 Version 2.6 February 2011 Chapter 3. Running and Managing DX Storage CFS 3.1. Starting DX Storage CFS and CNS The Cluster Name Space should always be started prior to CFS. The name space can be s...

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 13 Version 2.6 February 2011 After CFS has been stopped, CNS may also be stopped using the following command: $ /etc/init.d/caringo-cns stop 3.3. Timescapes The DX Storage CFS Timescape continuous s...

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 14 Version 2.6 February 2011 start without these directories. You will also be asked if you would like to mount the configured mountpoint immediately. Once mounted, you will be able to view the spec...

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 15 Version 2.6 February 2011 Argument Definition and usage -p PORT or --port=PORT SCSP Port for the configured DX Storage node (default=80) -r ROOTUUID or --uuid=ROOTUUID The CNS rootID you received...

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 16 Version 2.6 February 2011 sudo cfs-admin config The script will prompt for the CFSID you wish to modify and then display the same prompts from initial configuration but with the current configura...

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 17 Version 2.6 February 2011 • Castor-CFS-FileId: the filesystem id for the file in the CFS name space • Castor-CFS-Uid: the file's user id at the time it was stored • Castor-CFS-Gid: the...

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 18 Version 2.6 February 2011 # cfs-admin metadata --delete --name=Department --value=Legal /mnt/legal 3.6.2. DX Storage Lifecycle Policies In addition to custom metadata, the 'cfs-admin pol...

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 19 Version 2.6 February 2011 # cfs-admin policy --modify --span=2y --lifepoint=1 /mnt/legal Finally, to delete a policy, the 'delete' action can be executed as follows by specifying whi...

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Copyright © 2011 Caringo, Inc. All rights reserved 20 Version 2.6 February 2011 Appendix A. Temp and Logging Space Configuration Every file that is written to or read from the DX Storage cluster will be cached in the location specified for the spool...