Dell PowerStore 1200T EMC PowerStore Configuring SMB

Dell PowerStore 1200T Manual

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    Dell EMC PowerStore Configuring SMB 3.x July 2022 Rev. A02
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    of your product. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. © 2020 - 2022 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Dell
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    Contents Additional Resources...5 Chapter 1: Overview...6 SMB support...6 Planning considerations...6 Chapter 2: Create NAS servers...8 Overview of configuring NAS servers...8 Create NAS server for SMB (Windows-only) file systems 8 Change NAS server settings...9 Chapter 3:
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    Create an event publisher...25 Enabling an event publisher for a NAS server...25 Enable event publisher for a file system...26 4 Contents
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    https:// www.dell.com/powerstoredocs. ● Troubleshooting For information about products, software updates, licensing, and service, go to https://www.dell.com/support and locate the appropriate product support page. ● Technical support For technical support and service requests, go to https://www.dell
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    is enabled on the NAS server, you can create SMB-enabled file systems. The NAS server with SMB support can either be stand-alone or Active Directory domain-joined. Domain-joined NAS servers are placed in the OU=Computers, OU=EMC NAS Servers organizational
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    switch. See the PowerStore Networking Guide for PowerStore T Models for details. Deployment requirements NAS services are only available on PowerStore T , NAS services were not installed. To install NAS services, you will need to have your system reinitialized by a customer support representative.
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    you can provision file storage on the PowerStore T model appliance, a NAS server must be running on the system. A NAS server is a file server that supports the SMB protocol, NFS protocol, or both to share data with host clients. It also catalogs, organizes, and optimizes read and write operations to
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    routes to external networks as described in Configure NAS server networks. 3. On the Naming Services page, optionally add, modify, or delete NAS server DNS servers. NOTE: You cannot disable DNS for NAS servers that support SMB file sharing and that are joined to an Active Directory (AD). 4. On the
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    add the active directory (AD) realm for Kerberos authentication or to configure a custom Kerberos realm. ● Select Antivirus to enable or disable the anti-virus service and to retrieve or upload the anti-virus configuration file. For details see Configure NAS Server Security 10 Create NAS servers
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    SSH (SFTP) after the NAS server has been created. Prerequisites Passive mode FTP is not supported. About this task FTP access can be authenticated using the same methods as SMB. Once authentication ● The file interfaces ● Routes to external services such as hosts. Additional NAS Server Features 11
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    gateway, which is used to route requests from the NAS server interface to external services. Use the following steps: ● If you need to configure more granular routes to external services. ● To add a route to access a server from a specific interface through a specific gateway. Steps 1. Select
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    detect the PowerStore NDMP using the NAS server IP address. About this task Enabling NDMP is performed after the NAS server is created. PowerStore supports: ● Three-way NDMP. The data is transferred through the DMA over a local area network (LAN) or Wide Area Network (WAN). ● Full and incremental
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    about CAVA, which is part of Common Event Enabler (CEE), see Using the Common Event Enabler on Windows Platforms on https:// www.dell.com/support. Enable Common AntiVirus Agent (CAVA) You enable CAVA, and upload the CAVA configuration file when you want to add anti-virus protection to your
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    be created on the NAS server before you can create an SMB share. Prerequisites Ensure that there is a NAS server that is configured to support the SMB protocol as described in Configuring NAS servers. Steps 1. Select Storage > File Systems and click Create. 2. Continue to work through the Create
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    has specific requirements that make this mode or operation unfeasible, leaving the oplocks enabled is recommended. The following oplocks implementations are supported: ● Level II oplocks, which informs a client that multiple clients are accessing a file, but no client has yet modified it. A level II
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    , select one of the file system snapshots on which to create the share. of the file system Only snapshots are supported for file system protection policies. Replication is not supported for file systems. SMB Share Details Enter a name, and local path for the share. When entering the local path
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    ) rejects non-encrypted access and 0 allows clients that do not support encryption to access the file system without encryption. Filters the list Microsoft hosts. Configures the client-side caching of offline files: ● Manual: Files are cached and available offline only when caching is explicitly
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    -level retention for a file system and the level of FLR are set at file system creation time and cannot be modified. ● FLR-C does not support restoring from a snapshot. ● When refreshing using a snapshot, both file systems must be of the same FLR level. ● When replicating a file system, source and
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    non-peak production hours to avoid impacting file system operations. NOTE: You cannot enable quotas for read-only file systems. NOTE: Quotas are not supported in VMware file systems. Types of quotas There are three types of quotas you can put on a file system. Table 5. Quota types Type User
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    Table 5. Quota types (continued) Type Description ● Track directory usage by setting the tree quota hard and soft limits to 0 (zero). NOTE: If you change the limits for a tree quota, the changes take effect immediately without disrupting file system operations. User quota on a quota tree Limits
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    Add a user quota onto a file system Create a user quota on a file system to limit or track the amount of storage space that individual users consume on that file system. When you create or modify user quotas, you can use default hard and soft limits that are set at the file-system level.
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    are required to enable file replication: ● A file remote system ● A File Moblility network must be configured and mapped (see Networking Guide for PowerStore T models on the PowerStore Documentation page at https://www.dell.com/powerstoredocs). ● A protection policy that includes a replication rule
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    the application in one message. Context can consist of file metadata or directory metadata that is needed for business policy decisions. To enable CEE CEPA support, you must enable CEE CEPA and create an Event Publishing Pool on the NAS server. An Event Publishing Pool defines the CEPA servers and
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    2. Select NAS Settings. 3. In the Event Publishing window, select Publishing Pools and then select Create. 4. Enter a Pool Name. 5. Enter the CEPA server FQDN. 6. In the Event Configuration section, click the event types and select the events that you want to add to the pool. 7. Click Apply to
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    Alternatively, you can select to enable the event publisher for specific file systems. For details, see Enable event publisher for file system. 5. Click Apply. Enable event publisher for a file system About this task You can enable the event publisher for selected file systems. Steps 1. Select
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Dell EMC PowerStore
Configuring SMB
3.x
July 2022
Rev. A02