Acer NAS 700 - Manual

Acer NAS 700

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Table of Contents:

  • Page 4 – CONTENTS
  • Page 9 – This configuration guide is intended for:; Contents of this Guide
  • Page 10 – Acer Server Product Training (or knowledge about the current Acer; Overview of the ACER Altos NAS 700 Appliance
  • Page 11 – What is ACER ASC Express ?; ASC provides companies with
  • Page 12 – Maximizes performance for high bandwidth applications.
  • Page 13 – What is an ASC Network
  • Page 14 – protocol. Requests made to the
  • Page 15 – ASC Components; storage network; ASC Server; Do not confuse ASC NAS clients with a NAS server.
  • Page 16 – ”. TimeMarks contain only data changes and therefore do not; party backup software to backup remote
  • Page 17 – Altos NAS 700 Appliance
  • Page 18 – ACER ASC Express Features; Supported platforms for the iSCSI clients are:
  • Page 19 – Qlogic 2340 (Optional Fibre Channel HBA Controller)
  • Page 20 – Installing HBA into the Altos NAS 700; Setting up RAID Array and LUNs
  • Page 22 – A) Red Hat Linux 7.3 installation using the Recovery Image; Introduction
  • Page 23 – Then click on the CONFIGURE button to add a newly detected device.
  • Page 25 – B) Red Hat Linux 7.3 manual installation; On the welcome screen, click NEXT to go to the next step.
  • Page 27 – Firewall Configuration.
  • Page 28 – On this page, select No Firewall and click NEXT.
  • Page 32 – We recommend to have the Hard Drive selected as 1; Boot Device on your
  • Page 34 – Type your company name and press
  • Page 39 – On the next screen, click on “YES” to configure the first network card.; Note: Configure and setup the f r t network adapter called ETH0.
  • Page 44 – ASC SAN Client installation; iSCSI SAN Client
  • Page 45 – Pre-installation checklist; The ASC Client should not be installed onto a networked drive.
  • Page 46 – ASC SAN Clients Supported Platform; Platform
  • Page 47 – NetWare; iSCSI client; Standard Server and Enterprise Server.
  • Page 48 – SAN/IP Client installation on Linux
  • Page 50 – serverIPAddress; When prompted, enter your username and password.
  • Page 51 – Start the ASC Management Console
  • Page 52 – ASC Management Console User interface; To expand an item that is collapsed, you can click on the
  • Page 54 – Server statistics; To display memory and CPU usage for a server, select the; Statistics; or; Stop
  • Page 55 – Save & Restore an ASC Server configuration; Save configuration; File; Select a filename and location.
  • Page 56 – Restore configuration; Save Configuration
  • Page 57 – Licensing; License
  • Page 58 – Set Server Properties; To set properties for a specific server:; Proper es; The tabs you see will depend upon your ASC configuration.; Server IP Add esses; tab. If the first IP address
  • Page 59 – On the; Activity Database Maintenance; tab, indicate how often the SAN; Windows Clients; and select; Propert es
  • Page 60 – SNMP Maintenance; tab, indicate which types of messages
  • Page 61 – iSCSI; tab, iSCSI users can change the port number.; Use a maximum transport window size of [ 300] packets; - Maximum transport; Enable Microscan; - Microscan analyzes each replication block on-the-fly during; Note: replication is not supported under ASC 4.0 Express
  • Page 62 – Manage Administrators accounts & Password; Manage accounts; Administrators
  • Page 63 – Select the appropriate option.; Change Pa sword; Change your administrator password; Change Password
  • Page 64 – System Maintenance; Network configuration
  • Page 67 – Physical resource; Physical Resources
  • Page 68 – Prepare devices to become logical resources
  • Page 69 – SCSI aliasing; paths. This can be useful for load balancing purposes as well.; Alias; Rename a SCSI device; Rename; Type the new name and press; Enter
  • Page 70 – Rescan adapters
  • Page 71 – Import a disk; Import; SCSI device throughput
  • Page 72 – Logical Resources
  • Page 73 – In addition, when you highlight a SAN or NAS Resource, you will see a; GUID; Write caching; To write cache a resource, right-click on it and select; Write Cache
  • Page 74 – ASC SAN Clients
  • Page 75 – The; Resources; tab displays a list of SAN Resources that are allocated to this; Change the ACSL; SAN Resources
  • Page 76 – ASC NAS Clients
  • Page 77 – Windows; object and selecting; Start Connection Statu Ref e h
  • Page 78 – Console Options; To set options for the Console:; Tools
  • Page 79 – Create custom menu
  • Page 81 – Virtual Devices; storage pools; . From these storage pools, virtual devices can be; storage virtualization
  • Page 83 – Direct devices
  • Page 84 – Service enabled devices
  • Page 85 – Prepare devices to become SAN Resources
  • Page 86 – New; Select; Virtual Device
  • Page 87 – Select how you want to create this virtual device.; Custom; how much space to allocate from each.; Express; creates a virtual device using all available devices.; Batch; will all be the same size.
  • Page 88 – If you select
  • Page 89 – and; only) Enter a name for the new SAN Resource.
  • Page 90 – Create a direct device or service enabled device SAN Resources
  • Page 91 – Select how you want to create this device.; lets you create multiple SAN Resources at one time.
  • Page 93 – Confirm that all of the information is correct and then click; Finish; to create the; Yes; Assign resources to one or more clients
  • Page 94 – - Two clients can connect at the same time with both; Read Only; - This client will have read only access to the SAN Resource. This; Note: Fibre Channel SAN client is not upported under ASC 4.0 Express.
  • Page 95 – Add
  • Page 96 – For iSCSI clients, you will see the following screen:
  • Page 97 – Assign a client to one or more SAN Resources; Right-click on a SAN Client and select; Assign; Select the SAN Resource to be assigned.
  • Page 98 – Expand a virtual device; Once owner and fail back timing.; Partition Mag c; Veritas Vo ume Manager
  • Page 99 – Expand; Select how you want to expand the virtual device.; Size to Allocate; is the maximum space available on all available devices. If
  • Page 100 – Confirm that all information is correct and then click; to expand the
  • Page 101 – extendvg; command should be used to enlarge the size of the volume
  • Page 102 – Delete a SAN Resource; Detach the SAN Resource from any client that is using it.; Stop Client; For other clients, type; Delete
  • Page 103 – For Windows Clients, you can use the; Add Server; option in the SAN Client; monitor
  • Page 104 – ASC SAN Client on Linux; Start/stop the ASC SAN Client processes
  • Page 106 – Rescan ASC SAN Devices
  • Page 107 – ASC SAN Client Monitor; Start
  • Page 108 – Opt ons
  • Page 109 – Stop and start the client; Rescan Devices; Connect/Disconnect a server
  • Page 110 – This starts a wizard that will guide you through the process.
  • Page 112 – Delete Server; button; OK
  • Page 113 – Organize Servers; - Remove an ASC Server from the Client.; Edit; the Client and Server.
  • Page 114 – Set dependent services to start after ASC services; Dependent Services
  • Page 115 – Reboot your computer.; Register
  • Page 116 – Domain; tab, and if applicable, enter information about your domain.
  • Page 118 – ASC SAN Client on NetWare; Start the client; Set the client to automatically start after server reboot
  • Page 119 – Disk copies; ICCMD Start Server=serverIPAddress Debug=2
  • Page 120 – Uninstall a SAN client; Do the following to uninstall SAN Client software:
  • Page 121 – Set ASC to start automatically upon bootup
  • Page 122 – Stop the ASC Server; You should see the processes stopped
  • Page 123 – Log into the ASC Server; not; To log in, enter the username and the password for the root user.; managed by the Server.; Telnet access; ssh
  • Page 124 – Check the ASC Server processes
  • Page 125 – Check physical resources
  • Page 126 – NAS CONFIGURATION; NAS contrasts with SAN in several key ways:
  • Page 128 – General NAS configuration sequence
  • Page 129 – Prepare for authentication
  • Page 130 – The authentication modes are summarized in the following table:
  • Page 131 – Active Directory; Note: ASC does not support Active Directory's Nested Groups.
  • Page 133 – To stop using the NIS client type:; killall ypbind
  • Page 134 – Enable NAS; In the Console, right-click on the server and select; full; password and one; read only; password) that are set from the Console.; It is important that you do not change your authent cat on mode once
  • Page 135 – Primary Authentication Server; - Enter the name of the server (not an IP; Backup Authenticat on Server; - You can optionally enter a server name (not an; Domain mode; , enter the NT domain that the ASC; Server mode; , enter the workgroup that the ASC Server
  • Page 138 – (Share mode) Enter the workgroup that the ASC Server must join.
  • Page 139 – chcp
  • Page 141 – Add NFS clients
  • Page 142 – Create a NAS Resource; object and select
  • Page 145 – only) Enter a name for the new NAS Resource.
  • Page 146 – cat
  • Page 147 – Limit the amount of storage each Windows user can have.
  • Page 148 – Restore quota data; Resync Quota; Add/share a folder and assign clients; New Folder
  • Page 152 – Windows clients
  • Page 153 – hostname; You can use the following Unix utility to list all of the shares:
  • Page 154 – Audit NAS shares; To use the auditing feature:
  • Page 155 – NAS properties; General
  • Page 156 – Homes; properties and select to audit all NAS shares.; Share out use home directo y; option, you will see the
  • Page 157 – Length of time TimeView should be maintained (minutes) - How long the
  • Page 159 – NAS directory permissions
  • Page 160 – NAS file information; You can have a maximum of 100 Windows users/groups per NAS share.
  • Page 161 – NAS utilities; Remove Journal; turns an EXT3 filesystem into an EXT2; Format; - Formats the NAS Resource and deleting all information on it.; Mount; - Performs a file check on a NAS resource and fixes any file; Expand a NAS Resource
  • Page 162 – Properties; Add users UserA and UserB.; Allow; for the; Full
  • Page 164 – Back up/restore extended attributes on Linux
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Summary

Page 4 - CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION.................................................................................... 1 CONTENTS Who should read this Guide 1 Contents of this Guide 1 Course Goals 2 Prerequisites 2 Overview of the ACER Altos NAS 700 Appliance 2 ACER ASC EXPRESS BASICS .......................................

Page 9 - This configuration guide is intended for:; Contents of this Guide

INTRODUCTION This solution guide discusses the installation, configuration, management troubleshooting and the benefits provided by the Acer Altos NAS 700 appliance. The Altos NAS 700 appliance is a highly flexible and scalable Network Attached Storage solution. It improves storage utilization compa...

Page 10 - Acer Server Product Training (or knowledge about the current Acer; Overview of the ACER Altos NAS 700 Appliance

Course Goals Enable engineers and partners to fully implement an ACER Altos NAS 700 Appliance. Prerequisites Learners should meet the following prerequisites before installing a NAS 700 appliance (or equivalent experience): • Acer Server Product Training (or knowledge about the current Acer Server p...

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