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1. Targets Discovery Favorite Targets Volumes and Devices RADIUS Configuration Quick Connect From iSCSI initiator dialog box it ee ieee E shows that the connection is established Target OE Quick Connect Discovered targets Let s check if the two iSCSI drives are Refresh ready for server ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology u400ha 424400090 1a00 dev0 ctri ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 La00 dev Letr 1 Inactive ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 000901a00 dev63 cirl Inactive Windows Server 2012 And check out Disk Management Go to Computer Management in Fig 4 20 Connection completes File Action View Help e Am As expected two new disks are shown in Windows Server 2012 We may start using them just like any newly installed hard drive A Computer Management Local 4 System Tools b Q Task Scheduler p Event Viewer p Shared Folders p Local Users and Groups p Performance g Device Manager Healthy Recovery Partition Simple Basic Healthy EFI System Partition amp Tools E Simple Basic NTFS Healthy Primary Partition a 2R2 CA Simnle _ Rasic NTES Healthy Root Pane Eile Crach Dunn Priman Partitie Disk 0 Basic GY W2K12R2 C Tools E 1 a endows Server Backugl Ge oM A ome 2a7eGeNTES 9 05 6B NTFS You can check Fig 2 9 for LUN details Online Healthy R H
2. 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 41 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 This private IP addresses are used by iSCSI target service and web UI management service In addition to the management port all other network ports can provide web UI management service through private IPs LAN setting gt IFv4 You can select DHCP or BOOTP to acquire an IP address automatically or select Static to specify an IF address manually Name Controller 1 LAN O DHCP OBOOTP Static Address 192 168 11 123 Mask 255 255 0 0 Back Apply Reset Fig 3 12 Private IP setting Click vaN to set VLAN ID The VLAN ID setting will automatically mirror to the other controller This is due the cluster IP design In case when failover happens the other network interface should have the same VLAN setting in order to resume the original network connections LAN setting gt VLAN This WYLAN setting will be mirrored between both RAID controllers automatically W Enable Name Round Robin LAN LANG VLAN ID 2 Priority 0 Back Apply Reset Fig 3 13 VLAN ID setting Click P to enable or disable jumbo frame The jumbo frame size is 9000bytes It will be displayed in Fig 3 14 table LAN setting gt Set jumbo frame Name Controller 1 Round Robin LAN1 LAMG Enable Disable Fig 3 14 Jumbo frame setting 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserve
3. 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 112 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsar Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 LANO gt MAC 00 13 78 xx xx xx Addr 192 168 x x Mask 255 255 0 0 LAN1 gt MAC 00 13 78 xx xx xx Addr 169 254 x x Mask 255 255 0 0 LAN2 gt MAC 00 13 78 xx xx xx Addr 169 254 x x Mask 255 255 0 0 LAN3 gt MAC 00 13 78 xx xx xx Addr 169 254 x x Mask 255 255 0 0 ifconfig Setup the IP address of the management port console gt ifconfig Setting ethO IP address usage ifconfig IP MASK GATEWAY ifconfig DHCP reset_network Reset all of network ports to factory default setting restart_http If the web UI is abnormal restart HTTP service for management list_port List the port number of the services console gt list_ port Service Port http gt 80 https gt 443 ssh gt 2222 ftp gt 21 sftp gt 22 webdav gt 50000 webdavs gt 8888 dump_sysinfo Connect a USB flash via USB port at the rear of the system use this command to dump the system information to USB device If there is no USB device found it will display the warning message console gt dump_sysinfo No USB found please insert USB diag Print the diagnostic messages reboot Reboot the system shutdown Shutdown the system exit Exit the console Ul help Display the help description 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 113 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual
4. 4 Storage management 122 30 12 gt Service status gt Physical disks rae Directory service Standalone gt Pools CIFS Enabled gt Volumes NFS Disabled gt iscsi gt Snapshots za A a TE EPE UPS status Low critical Low warning High warning High critical Status Type None 0 0 C 5 0 C 85 0 C 94 0 C Good Status 0 0 C 5 0 C 85 0 C 94 0 C Good Battery level Thin provisioning gt Compression A Privilege setting 0 gt Accounts 0 0 C 5 0 C 65 0 C 80 0 C Good Fig 4 9 Data service status in Dashboard page Go to Privilege setting gt File services gt Windows After enabling CIFS service the following TCP and UDP ports will be enabled as well e TCP 139 smbd e TCP 445 smbd e UDP 137 nmbd e UDP 138 nmbd The meaning of each item is described below Windows Windows file service CIFS service Enable Disable WINS serveri IP address fo O OE WINS server2 IP address F El Fig 4 10 CIFS service Item name Description CIFS service Enable or Disable the service Server description Workgroup WINS server1 IP WINS server2 IP 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved Default is Welcome to CIFS server Maximum length is 256 characters Default is Workgroup Maximum length is 16 characters WINS Server IP Address Default is empty If it s empty the name resolution priority is DNS only Otherwise the name resolution prior
5. This chapter will explains how to manage enclosure related functions get the big picture of how the NAS system is running in general and monitor the readings of different sensors The topics included are e Dashboard e System information e Firmware upgrade and synchronization e import export e Reset to factory default e Reboot shutdown Dashboard This is the landing page after logging in TrioNAS LX HA It gives you a big picture of how the NAS system is performing and the general health status of the system So you don t need to go to each individual page separately There are 13 sections of information boards They can be customized by selecting only the sections you are interested in You can do this through the drop down list 3 on the upper left corner Or you may fold each section by clicking on the upper right corner of each section The page content will be updated automatically The refresh rate can be set using the drop down list 5 seconds on the upper right corner Dashboard Display list 43 13 selected Refresh interval 5 seconds Vv Refresh now Disk throughput KByte s 15000 10000 5 Network flow Mbit s LAN1 0 30 20 10 50 40 30 20 10 5 30 Minutes ago Minutes ago Minutes ago 63 51 Gey 75 30 LAN5 0 60 50 40 30 20 10 l Fig 7 1 Dashboard 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 105 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Osa D
6. ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology us00ha 424 00090 1a00 dev 1 ct 1 ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 1a00 dev 1 ctr2 server s2 12 86 to LAN3 ctr1 12 124 ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 1a00 dev63 ctr1 Path3 to ctr2 ian 2004 08 com gsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 1a00 dev63 ctr2 server s1 11 87 to LANG ctrl 11 147 Path2 to ctr2 server s2 12 86 to LANS ctr1 12 146 lt m gt Fig 4 29 iSCSI targets from both controllers Please follow the same concept and steps from previous section to create these four paths Discovered targets Name Status ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 000901a00 devO ctri Inactive Select iSCSI target node 63 from ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 1a00 dev0 ctr2 Inactive controller 1 and create MPIO ian 2004 08 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 1a00 dev 1 ct 1 Inactive ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 1a00 dev 1 ctr2 Inactive com asantecmolocgyv u400ha 424 00090 La00 dev63 ian 2004 08 com gsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 1a00 dev63 ctr2 Inactive lt iii To connect using advanced options select a target and then dick Connect Discovered targets Name Status ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 000901a00 dev0 ctr1 Inactive Select iSCSI target node 63 from ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 1a00 dev0 ctr2 Inactive controller 2 and create MPIO ign 2004 08
7. to enable or disable ICAP service Enter the IP address and port number of ICAP server Max connection means how many sessions will be created for sending files Click Apply to establish the connection Fig 6 11 below shows the login page AntiVirus service AntiVirus service Enable Disable Server namelP 9214681229 0 sid Port number 1344 Max connections 1 Fig 6 11 Enable ICAP service Flexibility is provided to allow more options for virus scanning You may use these filtering options to trim down the network workload Use Exclude file type to skip certain files For example text file txt usually will not get infected by virus Use Exclude share to remove some shares from the scanning list 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 103 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Qsan ee Revision 1 1 0 When infection is found the infected file will get treated according to the setting in ICAP server A record is created to document this Fig 6 12 below shows the table You may download all the records as a scanning report for other usage AntiVirus report Clear amp Download File name Pool Volume Found Wo o4 1 gt PY 1M 1 page s Fig 6 12 Antivirus report table 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 104 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsan ee Revision 1 1 0 System maintenance and monitoring
8. Libraries Documents a Music Pictures F videos 8 Files 0 Folders 1 Computer Type All of type Bitmap image amp Local Disk C Location Allin Q amp New Volume E Size 32 9 MB 34 560 432 bytes com RamDisk Fs G 555 192 168 100 51 Ps t SHAREQO 1192 168 100 51 Q G robert 1192 168 10 7 athersttmp X Attributes Read only GP target 1 192 168 10 6 release Vs Tl Hidden cw Secure DRAM 2 IV archive Size on disk 32 9 MB 34 562 048 bytes hi Network zj 8 items selected Date modified 10 24 2012 7 42 PM amp Dimensions 1600 x 900 Date cre 3 items 2 Check the network drive property again The actual space taken is less than 20MB which means Compression is functioning s SHAREQQ 5 192 168 100 51 Q Properties General Security Previous Versions Quota Customize Share Type Network Drive File system NTFS A Used space 4 7 18 592 bytes 4 50 MB A Free space 16 252 926 bytes 15 5 MB Capacity 20 971 520 bytes 20 0 MB Drive O Caret a _ 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 30 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 System settings This chapter describes how to configure the basic settings of the NAS system It contains the following sections General setting High availability setting Net
9. 1 1 0 Fig 3 8 shows the cluster IP table The meaning of each item will be explained below Cluster IP setting Cluster IP addresses are used by file sharing services such as CIFS and NFS Cluster IPs are independent from the IP addresses private IPs in Network Setting UI Name Address NIC Action ClusterA 192 168 11 22 24 LAG1 Fa T ClusterB 192 168 22 33 24 LAN Fa T Clusterc 192 168 33 44 24 LAGS Fa T ClusterD 192 168 44 55 24 LANS Fa T ClusterE 192 163 55 66 24 Management port a T Fig 3 8 Cluster IP table Item name Description Name Name of the cluster IP Address Cluster IP NIC Which network interface makes up the cluster IP Action Available functions to the cluster IP ff Edit This allows you change the settings of the cluster IP It will take effect immediately jiii Delete Delete the cluster IP Please go to Chapter 4 to learn more about how to use CIFS and NFS services through cluster IP CAUTION Which redundant path of the cluster IP will actually transmit data is not configurable and is determined dynamically by the NAS operating system QSM To set the actual data path needs to be done manually by unplugging the cable s of the corresponding network interface Active active mode and ALUA support TrioNAS LX HA operates in full active active mode by design Both controllers can deliver data I O at the same time Active active mode is more powerful and efficient than active standby mode because no
10. 11000 u5 User Group G2 20 00 0 us email com this is description 44455 uU User_Group G1 20 00 0 this is description 55667 ui User_Group None 0 M 4 gt h ay 1 page s Fig 5 2 User account table TIP Both local and domain accounts can co exist at the same time for both user and group But in LDAP local accounts do NOT work Only LDAP accounts work 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 82 Action ad 4 A Al 4 HA Al P41 4 4 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Ssa Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Local group account These group accounts belong to the NAS machine locally It s the same thing in Linux Users in the same group share the same access rights of a volume Go to Privilege setting gt Accounts gt User groups to start creating group accounts The meaning of each item in Fig 5 3 is described below Group account gt Create Name Marketing GID 6664 x Description User name Selected user s J Sort se E o Fig 5 3 Create local group Item name Description Name Group name Up to 128 characters It must start with a letter It is case sensitive Allowed characters alphanumeric characters plus _ and GID Assign a specific group ID within the range of 1000 60000 If GID is left blank the NAS system will automatically assign an ID Description A brief comment for the account User Organize the content of the group and select t
11. 2012 1 14 F 02 2012 1 14 F 02 2012 1 14 F 05 2017 6120 F M1 Select the drive letter you like Put in the share path in Folder Make sure you check Reconnect at logon Click Finish Map Network Drive ae _ a 192 168 8 180 SQL_DB2 v Iv E 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 61 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsan ee Revision 1 1 0 You may find a new drive with the letter you just selected in Explorer You may start using the new drive then Ce 5 x JU Computer SQL_DB2 192 168 8 180 J if Search SQL_DB2 192 168 PJ File Edit View Tools Help Organize New folder i amp WIN7_32 C A Name Date modified Tyi gt BUFFER D amp DVD RW Drive F a CD Drive H SQL_DB2 192 168 8 180 J shared astra K jed KA E NFS and Linux TrioNAS LX HA supports NFS version 3 and version 4 If version 4 connections cannot be established the system will automatically try to establish the connection using version 3 protocol Before using the NFS shares please make sure the NFS settings of the shares are properly configured Redhat Linux 5 When mounting a file system in Redhat Linux 5 Redhat Linux 5 uses NFS version 3 by default Use the following syntax to mount an NFS share Please make sure you add the keyword nfs share before the share name It repr
12. Failback now button Failback now When failback mode is set as manual click this button when you want to perform failback process at the moment Controller mode This function is designed to help upgrade from single controller system to dual controller system Currently the upgrade process is manual and please check the SOP Standard Operation Procedure document before performing the upgrade There are two controller modes dual and single This controller mode is stored on the EEPROM on the backplane board When the mode is single even if you plug in two correct controllers the slave controller will be locked down When the mode is set as dual it is not allowed to change the mode again It will be grey out as Fig 3 4 It is because TrioNAS LX HA will always run in dual mode Controller mode Controller mode To use high availability of dual controllers please choose dual operation mode A system reboot is required after changing operation mode Operation mode Fig 3 4 Controller mode 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 35 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsar Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Cluster IP This is probably the most distinctive feature in TrioNAS LX HA There are two kinds of IP addresses in TrioNAS LX HA They are private IP address and cluster IP address Their usage is different The main purpose of cluster IP is to provide redundant network paths for high availab
13. R6 2 R6 5 Pool Pool1 RO RO RO Ri Ri Ri R5 R5 R5 RG RG RG Quota GB None 2500 2500 200 1000 1000 200 3000 3000 200 2400 2400 200 Reserved GB None 2500 2500 200 1000 1000 200 3000 3000 200 2400 2400 200 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved Used GB Block size Compression Sync Copy Snapshot Schedule Original Action 0 64K Disabled Standard 1 0 7 46 54K Enabled standard 3 143 Scheduled Ti 13 06 64K Generic zero redaim Standard 3 142 Scheduled i 42 1 b4K Disabled Standard 1 1 7 2 82 64K Enabled Standard 3 9 O Scheduled i 3 68 54K Generic zero reclaim Standard 3 94 Scheduled 7 31 66 64K Disabled Standard 1 0O iT 4 72 64K Enabled Standard 3 143 Scheduled i 13 12 54K Generic zero reclaim Standard 3 142 Scheduled T 31 65 64K Disabled Standard 1 0O All 3 38 54K Enabled Standard 3 95 Scheduled 7 3 68 54K Generic zero reclaim Standard 3 94 Scheduled iT 22 69 64K Disabled Standard 1 0O 7 Fig 2 7 Volume table 24 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Ssa Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Column Name Name Pool Quota GB Reserved GB Used GB Block size Dedup Compression Sync Copy Snapshot Schedule Original Action Description Volume name It shows which pool this volume belongs to The quota of the volume This is the number of Size in Fig 2 6 Quota GB equals to Reserved
14. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 6 7 CentOS 6 5 7 0 Ubuntu 13 04 Mac Mac OS X 10 9 Mavericks 10 8 Mountain Lion Solaris 10 or later VMware vSphere ESXi 4 4 1 5 x 6 0 Citrix XenServer 5 6 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 9 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsan ee Revision 1 1 0 Supported browsers The management interface is provided through web browser only The supported browsers are listed below for reference Google Chrome 28 or later Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 0 or later Mozilla Firefox 16 or later Apple Safari 5 1 6 or later S D TIP If you have difficulty or notice unexpected behavior CY with the browser please try to use another Web browser to see if the issue can be resolved Connect to TrioNAS LX U400HA U600HA The management port of master controller will be set as dynamic IP address Your network environment needs to have a DHCP server for IP assignment IP address of the management port will be displayed on LCM screen as Fig 1 1 below The administrator account is admin and the default password is 1234 Login account admin Admin s password 1234 192 168 011 121 Asan U4 G HA 424 4 v i Esc MTE a NT E EE S 8 Fig 1 1 LCM display IP address The management port of this IP address is located at the IO panel of the master controller Fig 1 2 below shows how to identify master controller and management port h
15. Select 192 168 11 87 for Initiator IP Target portal IP 192 168 11 125 3260 Default Pa 192 168 11 121 3260 Select 192 168 11 125 for Target portal IP CRC Checksum 192 168 12 122 3260 192 165 11 123 3260 Data digest Click Ok to establish the connection r 192 168 12 126 3260 Enable CHAP log on 197 168 11 127 Fig 4 26 Create Path 1 Discovered targets Select iSCSI target node O again and click Connect button It s connected now ign 2004408 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 1a ign 2004 08 com gsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 la ign 2004408 com gqsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 1a Create Path2 Again check Enable multi path and click Advanced button To connect using advanced options select a target and then dick Connect 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 68 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual cOsan a Revision 1 1 0 Select iSCSI initiator for Local adapter General Connect using Select 192 168 12 86 for Initiator IP Local adapter Microsoft iSCSI Initiator sealer Select 192 168 12 122 for Target portal Target portal IP P ERC Checksum 132 168 13 122 f 5260 a ee Click Ok to establish the connection 192 168 11 125 3260 192 168 12 126 3260 1927 1658 11 127 3260 _ Enable CHAP log on Fig 4 27 Create Path 2 Now there are two paths to iSCSI target
16. They are File sharing protocol CIFS NFS e SAN protocol iSCSI CIFS service CIFS stands for Common Internet File System CIFS is a network protocol that offers file sharing service for Windows computers SMB version 2 is supported in TrioNAS LX HA SMB version 3 will be supported in the near future with new firmware release To use CIFS service please make sure the service is enabled and running normally You can check the service status in Dashboard which is the first page when you login into the web Ul management page Fig 4 9 below shows where to check data service status 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 54 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 TrioNAS LX U400HA 4 Dashboard Logout 1 1 2 Controller 2 1 1 2 A Type Time Content 201504181200 May 10 2037 gt Orie cannachors n R CPU C3528 1 73GHz Warning 22 00 05 CTR1 Backup AutoSnap task RO RO 3 failed Unbuffered DDR II 8192MB Warning May 10 2037 CTR1 Backup AutoSnap task RO RO 2 failed d System setting Unbuffered DDR II 8192MB 22 00 04 gt PEU E al Warming m Oa CTR1 Backup AutoSnap task RO RO 4 failed gt General setting Warming May 102037 CTR1 Snapshot RO RO 4 AUTO 203705 10 2200 fails to gt Network 22 00 04 be taken Warming May 102037 CTR1 Snapshot RO RO 3 AUTO 203705 10 2200 fails to gt Power management 22 00 04 be taken gt Maintenance 4
17. 0 hwhandler 0 wp undef policy round robin 0 prio 1 status undef 12 0 0 0 sdb 8 16 undef ready running policy round robin 0 prio 1 status undef 13 0 0 0 sdc 8 32 undef ready running d 7 TIP The device A as follow means failover And another one means Y round robin A policy round robin 0 prio 1 status undef 12 0 0 0 sdb 8 16 undef ready running policy round robin 0 prio 1 status undef 13 0 0 0 sdc 8 32 undef ready running B policy round robin O prio 1 status active 12 0 0 0 sdb 8 16 active ready running 13 0 0 0 sdc 8 32 active ready running 2 Edit etc multipath conf and insert the WWN of local disk into the blacklist vi etc multipath conf Ny TIP If you change the value of multipath conf you must restart CY multipath to take effect service multipthd restart 3 User can also change the find_multipths to block the local disk multipath find_multipaths y OR vi etc multipath conf hts reserved a 2015 Qsan Confidential All ri an c Po t title TriNAS LX HA software manual SAN 25 Revision 0 Next the alias of iSCSI device will be created The alias name will help iSCSI device to be identified easily Find the UUID of iSCSI device in Red below multipath Il 32033001378901d00 dm 3 Qsan p600 d316 size 500g feature 0 hwhandler 0 wp rw policy round
18. 1 Assign a pool to each controller Make a CIFS share on both pools Create one cluster IP for accessing both shares Generate continuous workload to both shares using the same cluster IP Check the network performance meters in Dashboard to decide that I O path goes through which controller If the ownership of the share does NOT match the 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 39 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual cOsan a Revision 1 1 0 ownership of the network port where I O goes through this means that I O shipping is happening and the other controller is serving the I O requests 2 Assign a pool to each controller Create a LUN on both pools Connect to both LUNs using iSCSI Make continuous workload to both LUNs Fail safe network Instead of controller failure any component along the data I O path from client network port network cable network switch to network port on NAS system could be a failure point that causes disconnection TrioNAS LX HA provides extended high availability to protect against switch port failure controller port failure and cable failure between controller and switch Fig 3 10 below shows the scenarios where fail safe network function will kick in to provide high availability protection Fig 3 10 Fail safe networking When TrioNAS LX HA detects any failure in Fig 3 10 the I O path of the cluster IP will automatically fail over to the other path The failover time
19. 168 8 1 3260 1 iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr2 2 Users can login and logout by iscsiadm m node with the ip and target name Operational mode node is used to login logout the usage is iscsiadm m node T target_iqn p target_ip l iscsiadm m node T target_iqn p target_ip u iscsiadm m node T iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr1 p 10 10 10 100 I All rights reserved 75 A Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 login 10 10 10 100 iscsiadm m node T iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr2 p 192 168 195 22 l login 192 68 195 22 iscsiadm m node T iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr1 p 10 10 10 100 u logout 10 10 10 100 iscsiadm m node T iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr2 p 192 168 195 22 u logout 192 168 195 22 3 Query the list of nodes the usage is iscsiadm m node iscsiadm m node 192 168 1 1 3260 0 iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr1 192 168 2 1 3260 0 iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr1 10 10 10 100 3260 1 iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600qg d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr1 192 168 4 1 3260 1 iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr1 192 168 5 1 3260 0 iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr2 192 168 6
20. 24 8 32K Disabled Standard 1 0 O Pii R6 88 RG 400 400 31 89 64K Disabled Standard 1 0O i 3 PAi R6 99 R6 400 400 43 16 128K Disabled Standard 1 0O iis 0 Fig 2 9 LUN table Column Name Description Name LUN name 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 27 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsar Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Pool It shows which pool this LUN belongs to Quota GB The quota of the LUN This is the number of Size in Fig 2 8 This equals to the number of Size in Create LUN page above Reserved GB The reserved size of the LUN If thin provisioning is disabled this equals to Quota above If thin provisioning is enabled this equals to the allocated capacity None Because the LUN is just created with thin provisioning enabled there is no allocated space Used GB The size of the data that is written to this LUN Block size Block size of ZFS file system Dedup The status of deduplication This option is only visible when it supports deduplication Compression It shows which compression option is adopted Sync It shows which sync option is adopted Copy It shows how many data copies will be made for this LUN Snapshot The number represents how many snapshots are taken for this LUN Go to the snapshot management page to show all snapshots belonging to this LUN Schedule It shows if there are any scheduled tasks for this LUN Scheduled There is at least
21. If the checkbox is checked the home directory will be created in this pool The cache buffer in RAID controller Enabled write back mode faster Disabled write through mode slower Select a different enclosure You may select a JBOD enclosure here Pool create Pool create Pool name Pool RAID level RAID 5 Independent Access Array with Rotating Parity RAID Level 5 RAID 5 distributes data across multiple disks while protecting the data against a single disk failure In the event of a failure of any disk member the parity will be used to rebuild the contents of the failed drive on the new one RAID 5 requires a minimum of three drives Pool owner Controller 2 Set up home directory E Write cache Enabled Select physical disks Show disk for Local w Slot Size GB Status Health Usage S5D Vendor Rate nw 1 931 Online Unknown Free disk No SEAGATE SAS 6 0 Gbit nw 2 931 Online Unknown Free disk No SEAGATE SAS 6 0 Gbit 3 931 Online Unknown Free disk No SEAGATE SAS 6 0 Gbit nw 4 931 Online Unknown Free disk No SEAGATE SAS 6 0 Gbit 5 931 Online Unknown Free disk No SEAGATE SAS 6 0 Gbit L 6 931 Online Unknown Free disk No SEAGATE SAS 6 0 Gbit T 931 Online Unknown Free disk No SEAGATE SAS 6 0 Gbit E 931 Online Unknown Free disk No SEAGATE SAS 6 0 Gbit 9 931 Online Unknown Free disk No SEAGATE SAS 6 0 Gbit i 10 931 Online Unknown Free disk No SEAGATE SAS 6 0 Gbit 11 931 Online Unknown Free di
22. User account name Up to 32 characters It must start with a letter It is case sensitive Allowed characters alphanumeric characters plus _ and 12 to 16 alphanumeric characters Case sensitive Because UnifiedAUTH function is built in the password needs to comply with iSCSI CHAP password rule as well The minimum length is required to be 12 Password confirmation User ID for Linux and Unix applications User s email for event notification purpose Personal share quota in UserHome directory A brief comment for the account Select the groups that this user account belongs to It can be multiple choices Fig 5 2 provides a full view of user account page You can edit change password and delete the account for management purpose Local accounts and domain accounts are displayed separately by selecting the drop down list E v Both local and domain accounts can co exist for share authentication Domain account information in the table is only for display purpose You cannot edit domain account or change the password of domain account Users User account Local user k Create J Delete amp Search Total 10 UID A User name Group Quota GB Used Email Description 0 admin Administrator_Group User_Group None 0 30 guest None 0 1000 ul User_Group 100 00 0 ui email com this is description 1001 ue User Group G1 None 0 1002 u3 User Group G2 None 0 1003 u4 User Group G2 None 0 1004 uig User_Group None 0
23. all zeros no physical space will be consumed The block will be marked specifically Generic Zero Reclaim This is Qsan patent filing technology that will reclaim data blocks with special patterns such as all 0 s all 1 s Theoretically it will have better storage efficiency Enabled This will always enable lossless data compression function using LZJB algorithm The Sync option will be grey out in LUNs page This is because 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved synchronous write function is not supported in iSCSI block access for the time being 26 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Number of data Number of data copies is used to create mirroring of data to copies avoid data corruption When the original file corrupts the NAS system will use the extra copy to recover the corrupt file The value of two means that when you copy a 10MB file it will take up 20MB space The value of three means that it will take up extra double space to store the same data in the same storage pool Users will not be able to see the actual extra copies They are controlled by ZFS file system Block size Block size of ZFS file system If your application has a particular I O access pattern adjust this block size to match your application to gain the maximum performance Size The allocated capacity of the LUN This number is the Quota GB in Fig 2 9 A
24. any question please e mail to Support QsanTechnology com We will answer your question as soon as possible Tips and Cautions This manual uses the following symbols to draw attention to important safety and operational information Symbol Meaning Description EEP TIP Tips provide helpful information guidelines or R suggestions for performing tasks more effectively 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 3 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Ssa Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 A CAUTION Cautions indicate that failure to take a specified Conventions action could result in damage to the software or hardware The following table describes the typographic conventions used in this manual Conventions Bold lt ltalic gt square brackets braces vertical bar Slash underline Legal Notice Description Indicates text on a window other than the window title including menus menu options buttons fields and labels Example Click OK button Indicates a variable which is a placeholder for actual text provided by the user or system Example copy lt source file gt lt target file gt Indicates optional values Example a b indicates that you can choose a b or nothing Indicates required or expected values Example a b indicates that you must choose either a or b Indicates that you have a choice between two or more options or arguments Ind
25. balancing plus receive load balancing for IPV4 traffic and does not require any special network switch support The receive load balancing is achieved by ARP negotiation The bonding driver intercepts the ARP Replies sent by the local system on their way out and overwrites the source hardware address with the unique hardware address of one of the NIC Slaves in the single logical bonded interface such that different network peers use different MAC addresses for their network packet traffic Reference from http en wikipedia org wiki Link aggregation Default gateway This is where to enable or disable the port as default gateway When the page pops up if Enabled is not checked it means there is no default gateway If Enabled is checked the current default gateway will be displayed in Interface and Address as in Fig 3 16 below Only one default gateway can be specified To set a default gateway simply check Enabled select the network interface and put in the IP address Click Apply to commit the change and a pop up message will acknowledge that the setting is ok Default gateway IPv4 default gateway Controller W Enabled Interface A Address 192 168 10 25 0 Apply Reset Fig 3 16 Default gateway 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 44 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Ssa Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 DNS DNS stands for Domain Name S
26. become multiple emulated iSCSI targets we call then iSCSI target nodes as if there are multiple iSCSI target appliances iSNS IP ISNS Internet Storage Name Service server provides automated discovery management and configuration of iSCSI devices If there is an iSNS server in the network enter its IP address here to register TrioNAS LX HA in its database Show information Select controller 1 or controller 2 for ID iSCSI target ID or node number Each controller supports 64 IDs which means 64 virtualized iSCSI targets for each controller The full entity name has the following naming format iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 000901a00 dev ctr1 dev is ID from O to 63 ctr1 stands for controller 1 ctr2 stands for controller 2 Authentication Enable CHAP account or not CHAP CHAP account is enabled 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 57 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Ssa Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 None CHAP account is disabled Node name Emulated iSCSI target entity name Portal Assign network interfaces to the iSCSI target Action Available functions are listed here as Set properties Click this icon to enable disable CHAP authentication for this iSCSI target node ONLY Set user Click this icon to select the users domain users that are allowed to access this iSCSI target node f Change network portal Click this icon to adjust the ne
27. benefit from this There are two types of SSD caching SSD read cache and SSD write cache SSD read cache is also called L2ZARC which means level two ARC storage It positions between RAM ARC storage and hard disks SSD read cache is a MUST HAVE when you use de duplication to de duplicate huge amount of data The more the data being de duplicated the larger the de duplication table DDT is Frequent access to DDT will slow down the performance Adding SSD read cache will allow the system to move DDT to SSD read cache to speed up de duplication performance The other type is SSD write cache It is also called ZIL ZFS Intent Log It is helpful when synchronous write write through mode is involved to boost the performance SSD read cache and SSD write cache are configured separately in Fig 2 5 below 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 21 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Ssa Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 SSD caching 55D caching Pool name Read cache disk Write cache Action Poolt LE RO ae dk aa R5 ae RG ae Fig 2 5 SSD cache table 8 Click to add SSD read cache We Click to add SSD write cache Each storage pool has its own SSD read cache and SSD write cache The maximum drive number for SSD read cache is four The maximum drive number for SSD write cache is two RAID 1 mirror is supported for SSD write cache to provide better data protection and high availability However ther
28. command gt Commands Enable enable Disable disable Set user_friendly_names Default n user_friendly_names lt y n gt Set find_multipaths Default n find_multipaths lt y n gt Load the dm multipath modules on enable Default y with_module lt y nape start stop reload multipathd Default n with_multipathd lt y n gt chkconfig on off multipathd Default y with_chkconfig lt y n gt mpathconf enable It will create multipath conf file as the configuration of multipath service multipthd start To enable multipath How to exclude local disks There are two ways that the local disks can be excluded when generating multipath devices 1 Determine which WWN of local disks will be ignored In this example using the command multipath can find out the WWN of local disk dev sda The WWN of local disk dev sda is in the parenthesis followed by the word mpatha multipath F Clear all multipath device maps multipath 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 77 C T oO A Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Create multipath create 1ATA ST31000528AS 9V undef ATA ST31000528A size 932G feature 0 hwhandler 0 wp undef policy round robin 0 prio 1 status undef 2 0 0 0 sda8 0 undef ready running create mpathb 3203300137890ad00 undef Qsan p600 d316 size 500g feature
29. end users With Qsan in house technology failover time is less than 20 seconds With less than 100 LUNs and 100 shares the failover time is around 30 seconds This ensures that almost all applications can keep running without any interruption to maintain the highest standard of business continuity The high availability function is implemented as default in the firmware QSM Operating system So there is no specific web UI page to turn ON OFF this function However for controller failback there are options available to set depending on user preference This gives IT administrators more flexibility to arrange preparation for system recovery Fig 3 3 below shows the failback mode page 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 34 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sear Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Failback mode Failback mode Change failback mode to Automatic failback or Manual failback Automatic failback Manual failback Failback now Click Failback now to execute a failback manually Failback now Fig 3 3 Failback mode Item name Description Automatic failback When the second controller is plugged in and boots successfully the NAS system will perform controller failback automatically Failback now button is grey out Manual failback When the second controller is plugged in and boots successfully the NAS system will NOT perform controller failback until the administrator clicks
30. followed by 16 characters Multiple Devices can be specified using semi colon as the delimiter To remove support for currently MPIO d devices select the devices and then dick Remove Devices Device Hardware Id MSF T200 5CSIBusT ype _0x9 Qsan U400Q D316 nka Fig 4 24 MPIO service in Windows Server 2012 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 67 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual cOsan a Revision 1 1 0 Set up MPIO with one controller Because each RAID controller has multiple network ports we can use MPIO function to increase the overall I O bandwidth Example below shows to set up iSCSI target node 0 using two paths Path 1 server s1 11 87 to LAN4 controller1 11 125 Path 2 server s2 12 86 to LAN1 controller1 12 122 Discovered targets Select iSCSI target node O and click Name Status i m i aAa kane Connect button Fig 4 25 dialog box will aaa os ao pop up Target name Check Enable multi path and click 2004 08 com qgsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 1a00 dev0 ctr 1 Advanced button _ Add this connection to the list of Favorite Targets This will make the system automatically attempt to restore the connection every time this computer restarts IV Enable multi path Ca Fig 4 25 Set up MPIO Create Path1 Connect usin i Select iSCSI initiator for Local adapter Local adapter Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Initiator P
31. functions to the replication task Start the task When there is no schedule setting this function is enabled m Stop the task When there is no schedule setting this function is enabled 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 102 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Ssa Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Set periodic duration just like the snapshot Edit the replication task from Step 2 lJ Delete the task Antivirus function TrioNAS LX HA supports ICAP Internet Content Adaption Protocol protocol to perform virus scanning function ICAP is a lightweight protocol developed to allow scanning and modification of web content passing through a web proxy Being designed as a lightweight protocol for high performance and security checks ICAP is well suited for use with NAS appliance and file sharing services When antivirus service is enabled it will real time monitor all incoming files write for continuous protection Incoming files will be sent to ICAP server virus server such as Symantec Scan Engine or ClamAV for scanning If a virus is detected the action taken to process the infected file is determined by virus server not by TrioNAS LX HA The default port number is 1344 Virus scanning will not take up NAS system resources but it will impact network performance because all files need to be sent to ICAP server over the network Go to Security gt Antivirus gt Antivirus service
32. have created volumes first Go to Privilege setting gt Shared folders Click Create share folder and Fig 4 1 will pop up Shared folders Share gt Create share folder Folder Pool Volume V1 thin Share Share services Llcirs LInNFs Fig 4 1 Create a share 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 48 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sean Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Item name Description Pool Select a storage pool that contains the required volume Volume Select the required volume Share services Enable the file sharing protocols associated with this share Currently only CIFS SMB2 and NFS v3 v4 protocols are provided Access control settings associated with each file sharing protocol will be enabled as each checkbox is checked AFP FTP and webDAV will be provided in the near future along with new firmware release Check NFS to enable NFS access control rules as in Fig 4 2 below Share services LIcirs MINES NFS access control rules Root squash O IPv4 Ll Async write O IPv6 O Host name Domain Every one 4 B Note To access via NFSv3 please access via nfs share To access via NFSv4 please access via P Example IPv4 Allow access to any machine in a Local Area Network defined by subnet mask Please provide a valid IP in the subnet and choose the correct subnet mask like 192 168 20 6 subnet mask 255 255 255 0 Fig 4 2 NFS access contr
33. storage you need to assign LUN to a designated iSCSI target which is represented by a number Go to Storage management gt iSCSI gt Mapping Click Attach Fig 4 6 below shows how to assign a LUN number to each LUN The meaning of each item is described below Mapping Mapping gt Attach iSCSI LUN name Target Permission O Read only Read Write Fig 4 6 Map a LUN to an iSCSI target Item name Description iSCSI LUN name Select a LUN from the drop down list All available LUNs will be displayed in the drop down list Target TrioNAS LX HA can emulate up to 64 iSCSI targets According to this target number an emulated iSCSI target entity name will be created For example iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 000901a00 dev ctri is the iSCSI target name seen in iSCSI initiator end Target O will be devO Target 1 will be dev1 And so on Target 63 is dev63 Permission Access rights to this LUN To show the concept of iSCSI target number Fig 4 7 below shows what it looks like in iSCSI initiator Targets Favorite Targets Volumes and Devices RADIUS Quick Connect To discover and log on to a target using a basic connection type the IP address or DNS name of the target and then dick Quick Connect Las E oo O O 5 k 2 a ds 2 E E a Discovered targets Inactive Inactive Inactive Inactive ign 2004 08 com gsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 la00idev 5 Inactive ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 0
34. to put in a smaller size and make sure the size you put in is larger than the size of Reserved GB Click Apply to commit the changes Compression Compression algorithm adopted by TrioNAS LX HA is LZJB It s a lossless and inline function which means no data loss NOT like JPG or GIF and it takes place on the fly while data is written to the NAS storage Below are the benefits and characteristics of compression e Applied to both Volumes and LUNs e Save more storage space and improve storage efficiency e tcan be turned ON and OFF on the fly during I O using Edit function How to use compression with shares For example create a volume of 20MB with compression turned ON Map the share in Windows as a network drive And check the drive property SHAREQQ 192 168 100 51 Q Properties General Security Previous Versions Quota Customize a ShareQG coat Type Network Drive File system MTFS E Used space 131 072 bytes 126 KB B Free space 20 940 449 bytes 19 9 MB Capacity 20 971 520 bytes 20 0 MB Drive O ca a 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsan ee Revision 1 1 0 Copy several bitmap files that are over the size of 20MB a dh gt Jir Favorites Name Date modified Type Size E Desktop 0 24 2012 7 42 PM Bitmap image m Downloads Recent Places Bitmap image Bitmap image
35. to them Those 3 iSCSI target nodes ign 2004 08 technology u400ha 424 00090 1a00 dev63 ctr1 Inacti P e ani i iii coum eenah j P will be discovered by iSCSI initiator Please refer to Fig 4 17 for LUN mapping information lt ii To connect using advanced options select a target and then Connect click Connect Fig 4 16 Discover iSCSI targets LAN2 LAN3 Assume that IP assignment is below LANS5 12 126 LANS5 12 146 LAN6 11 127 LAN6 11 147 LAN2 LAN3 LANS LAN6 The server where iSCSI initiator is running has two network interfaces 192 168 11 87 S1 and 192 168 12 86 S2 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 64 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 The LUN mapping assignment is below LUN 4 Attach select_vol All w Total 7 Target Permission LUN Action 0 Read Write Pool1 L2 0 Read Write Pool1 L1 thin 1 Read Write Ri R1 3 1 Read Write RiR1 4 63 Read Write Re R6 66 63 Read Write R6IR6 77 63 Read Write Re R6 83 c Fig 4 17 LUN mapping demo Check out iSCSI disks Assume that we will use the LUNs assigned to iSCSI target node 0 There are two LUNs attached to node 0 After connection completes we will see two extra disks in Windows server Discovered targets Refresh Name Status ign 2004 08 com gsantechnology us00ha 424 0
36. 0090 1a00 dev n Inactive ign 2004 08 com gsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 la00idev 7 Inactive gt To connect using advanced options select a target and then dick Connect Fig 4 7 iSCSI targets shown in iSCSI initiator 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 53 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sear Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Let s assign L1 thin to iSCSI target 0 Click Apply and the following Fig 4 8 will show up The meaning of each item is described below LUN 4 Attach select_vol Total 9 Target Permission LUN Action 0 Read Write RONRO 3 0 Read Wwnite Pool1 L1 thin 1 Read Vinte RO RO 4 2 Read Write Ri R1 3 3 Read Write Ri R1 4 4 Read Write R5 R5 3 5 Read Write RWRS5 4 6 Read Write R6 R6 3 T Read Write Re R6 4 a Fig 4 8 LUN mapping table Item name Description Target iSCSI target number or iSCSI node number Permission Access rights of the LUN LUN A B format shows where this LUN comes from A pool name B LUN name Action Available functions for this item Data services Detach LUN to remove this LUN from the iSCSI target After this step the iSCSI initiator should be able to see the iSCSI targets that connect to it And once the connection is established the LUNs assigned to the iSCSI target will show up in the host server that runs the iSCSI initiator This section will introduce the data services provided in TrioNAS LX HA
37. 0090 1a00 dev0 ctri Inactive LU Target name 2004 08 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 1a00 dev0 ctr1 _ Add this connection to the Est of Favorite Targets This will make the system automatically attempt to restore the connection every time this computer restarts Enable multi path Fig 4 18 Connect to Target General IPsec Connect using Local adapter Microsoft iSCSI Initiator wi itr mwn SSS Target portal IP 392 168 11 123 3280 y ae 192 168 11 121 3260 192 168 11 123 3260 _ Data digest 192 168 12 124 3260 192 168 11 125 3260 Enable CHAP logon 192 168 12 126 3260 192 168 11 127 f 3260 CHAF Log on information Fig 4 19 Connect to Target 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved Select iSCSI target node O and click Connect button below Fig 4 18 dialog box will pop up Because both controller 1 and 2 can see this LUN We need to decide the connection path Let s use server port S1 11 87 connecting to LAN2 controller 1 11 123 Click Advanced button Select Microsoft iSCSI initiator for Local adapter Select 192 168 11 87 server port S1 for Initiator IP Select 192 168 11 123 LAN2 controller 1 for Target portal IP Click Ok The connection will be established as Fig 4 20 65 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0
38. 1 3260 0 iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr2 192 168 195 22 3260 1 iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr2 192 168 8 1 3260 1 iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr2 4 If users want to clear the node list the usage is iscsiadm m node 0 delete 5 This command will list the connected iSCSI session it can be expressed as iscsiadm m session iscsiadm m session tcp 3 10 10 10 100 3260 1 iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0O ctr1 tcp 4 192 168 195 22 3260 1 iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr2 6 In session mode the iSCSI session can be logout the usage is iscsiadm m session r session_id u iscsiadm m session r 3 u Logging out of session sid 3 target iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d0 O dev0 ctr1 portal 10 10 10 100 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 76 C Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Logout of sid 3 target iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr1 p ortal 10 10 10 100 3260 successful 7 To log out all sessions the usage is iscsiadm m session u bd i How to set up DM Multipath The procedures of setup a multipath DM Multipath are on the following To enable mpathconf and then enable multipath support mpathconf h usage sbin mpathconf lt
39. 16 00 37 Fail Q T R6 3 R6 3 RG 192 168 12 116 LANZ 1 Gbps R6 3 R5 Disconnected Every 1 hour 2015 05 26 22 16 54 2015 0616 16 01 24 Fal Q T replica clon Ri 2 2015 06 16 14 23 43 Sa 2015 0616 16 27 43 Fig 6 8 Replication task table Item name Description Task name The name entered in Step 1 Source The source volume or LUN to be replicated Source pool The storage pool where the source volume or LUN belongs to Target IP IP address on the remote system Local the task is for local clone Dedicated port The network port used by the replication task If the task is for local clone it s blank here Target The name of the replicated volume or LUN Target pool The storage pool where the replicated volume or LUN belongs to Status There are four statuses Standby The task is ready to run The schedule has not arrived 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 98 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Ssa Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Schedule Created time Last executed time Result Action yet For every few seconds the system will check the status of source pool target IP and target pool to make sure the task is healthy Running The task is running Inactive When source pool or target pool can t be accessed or when it s uncertain if the task will fail the status becomes inactive Disconnected When target IP can t be accessed the status becomes disconnected The pe
40. 168 12 116 LAN 1 Gbps R6 3 R5 Disconnected Every 1 hour 2015 05 26 22 16 54 2015 06 16 14 01 23 Fail T replica clone R1 2 Local R1 2 clone R5 Standby Disabled 2015 06 16 14 23 43 CO Fig 6 9 Local clone in replication task table Click to set the schedule which is the same logic as snapshot schedule Local clone follows the same rules as remote replication in the last section Cloud backup Amazon S3 TrioNAS LX HA integrates API provided by Amazon S3 service to allow data transmission to and from the Cloud storage Before using this function you must register an Amazon S3 account first at http aws amazon com s3 There is no limit to the number of how many Amazon S3 tasks can be created If you experience slow system performance please reduce the Amazon S3 tasks Go to Applications gt Backup gt Cloud and click Create to create a new task The meaning of each item in Fig 6 10 is described below Item name Description Task name Enter a name for the backup task Local path Select the volume from the drop down list Enter the folder name you want to backup Backup type Upload upload files to Amazon S3 Download download files to TioNAS LX HA Access key Access key provided by Amazon S3 Private key Private key provided by Amazon S3 Bucket folder Bucket bucket name on Amazon S3 Cloud Folder folder name in the bucket Delete extra files in Check this to synchronize both the source and destination dest
41. 37 16 1500 00 13 73 B9 A8 31 Management port 100 1000 Mbps No o IPv4 Static 192 168 11 121 16 1500 00 13 73 B9 48 30 Fig 3 11 LAN setting table Action A T Pah IF AA AA Phin Te A T Pah P Select Controller1 or Controller2 from the drop down list to choose which controller to look at Item name Name Link status LAG LAG No VLAN ID Protocol IPv4 type IPv4 IP Jumbo frame MAC address Action Description Network port name on the controller bracket Fig 1 1 This shows if the network cable is connected correctly Link speed is displayed as well for reference No There is no link aggregation Seven Linux bonding methods are all supported and displayed here Aggregation ID no VLAN VLAN ID is displayed here IPv4 or IPv6 IPv6 is not supported Static IP or DHCP IP address and subnet mask Jumbo frame size Hardware address of the network interface Available functions to the network interface are listed here This is where to set the private IP This is where to set VLAN ID This is where to enable jumbo frame Delete link aggregation S992 Click F to set private IP address If you have DHCP server in the network environment please select DHCP to use dynamic IP assignment Select Static to put in a fixed IP address BOOTP stands for Bootstrap Protocol It s another option for dynamic IP assignment Please be aware that IPv6 is not currently supported yet
42. 5535 Domain means either Active Directory or LDAP 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 90 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsan ee Revision 1 1 0 Data protection snapshot replication backup In addition to the powerful RAID function and data consistency provided by ZFS in QSM operating system this chapter introduces snapshot remote replication local clone and cloud backup for more data protection measurements Topics included are e Snapshot management e Replication management e Cloud backup e Antivirus Snapshot management Ko TrioNAS LX HA packs with powerful snapshot function Snapshot employs copy on write technology to make differential backup to volumes and LUNs at block level It captures the instant state of the data at a point in time like a snapshot literally It s a very efficient and effective way to make differential copies within the NAS system The beauty is that it supports both volume snapshot and LUN snapshot which are the targets you take snapshots at For example you accidentally delete Shift Delete a file in a share or modify a file in a wrong way You can retrieve the file through snapshot effortlessly Go to Storage management gt Snapshots gt Snapshot management The table in Fig 6 1 below will display snapshots based on the filter selection The drop down list of the filter will contain all Volumes and LUNs for the user
43. B7450 F600Q 3 5 0 00 13 78 B7 4B 70 192 168 136 199 Mgmt U400Q B74B70 U400Q 1 4 1 00 13 78 B7 71 B0 192 168 8 75 LAN2 U400Q B74B70 U400Q 1 4 1 00 13 78 B7 71 B2 192 168 105 133 Mgmt P600Q D424 B92490 P600Q D424 3 5 0 00 13 78 B9 24 90 192 168 138 100 Mgmt U600HA B74B80 U600HA 1 0 0 00 13 78 B9 5B D0 192 168 196 11 Mgmt U600Q B9A810 U600Q 1 0 0 00 13 78 B9 A8 10 192 168 191 11 LAN1 U600Q B9A810 U600Q 1 0 0 00 13 78 B9 A8 11 192 168 190 11 LAN2 U600Q B9A810 U600Q 1 0 0 00 13 78 B9 A8 12 83 systems found 2015 03 26 13 19 30 Fig 1 3 QFinder user interface Using LCM LCM on the enclosure front Fig 1 1 will display the system name and IP address of the management port You can adjust the management port IP using LCM buttons Please follow LCM on screen instructions to adjust the IP address Network environment To fully capitalize the high availability functions provided by U400HA U600HA please make sure all the network ports 1GbE and 10GbE are connected to the Ethernet switches Correct topology In order to utilize the high availability benefits provided by U400HA and U600HA Ethernet switch is a necessity at installation stage All high availability functions need Ethernet switches to function properly Below is a simple example of a correct cabling topology 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 12 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual FASAN 21500 Revision 1 1 0 Wrong topology Conne
44. CTION s cciccccencentdantcumecaandeancandcaneccwadieaidaaedivaennesianacmantemsnoaradunndseaduescaambeesinesiansesenedeeacenseneas 111 SECURE SHELL REMOTE CONNECTION cccctscnrdnecosestentcacacanenstdenennceeecueanbsiaueanseusnnnantcdouehoaeadausenbatuensceuncudsabaemesacatinues 111 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 7 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Qsan E ES Revision 1 1 0 CONSOLE Ul sccnsecssacontete cenina Chapter 9 GLOSSARY AND ACRONYM LIST 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsan ee Revision 1 1 0 Getting started This software manual describes how to configure and manage TrioNAS LX dual controller NAS system which includes U400HA and U600HA models TrioNAS LX HA NAS is enterprise unified hybrid storage for centralized file sharing applications backup storage and virtualization applications This chapter includes the following sections Supported operating systems Supported browsers Connect to TrioNAS LX U400HA U600HA Network environment Supported operating systems TrioNAS LX can act as a centralized file sharing center for heterogeneous clients running different operating systems The supported operating systems are listed below for reference Windows Windows 7 SP1 Windows 8 Windows 8 1 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 both x86 and x64 Linux
45. Delete the share File Explorer Explorer gives you a bird eye view of the whole storage array Please check Fig 4 5 below On the left hand side it a tree structure to show the relationships between pools and volumes Below is icon description The root of the array storage Storage pool Folder Folder can not be turned into a share Volume not been shared out yet Share It s a Volume as well Search folder or file Vides Explorer b Forward E3 Create folder a B Pools A Poolt V1 thin a i Pooli Mame Size Type Date Action a V1 thin Ji Common Files Folder 2015 05 03 21 31 P l m Comm di CrystalDiskinfo Folder 2015 05 03 21 31 P gt Crystal J Davicom Folder 2015 05 03 21 32 P i Davico J HDDGURU LLF Tool Folder 2015 05 03 21 32 P J HDDGI d InstallShield Installation Information Folder 2015 05 03 21 32 P gt fp InstaiE j intel Folder 2015 05 03 21 30 P b Intel FA v2 fat a g RO lt 1 RO 1 gt sel RO sl RO 5 A R1 lt gt Fig 4 5 File Explorer Click B Create folder to create a folder if necessary You can search a particular file or folder in a complicated and deep directory structure by using search function It can make your life easier 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 52 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 LUN management In Chapter 2 we already introduce how to create LUNs Before the LUN can be used for actual
46. GB as always None when thin provisioning is enabled the reserved size will be displayed as None To check the network drive capacity in Windows it will display the remaining capacity of the pool and it is dynamically changing The reserved size of the volume This is the number of Size in Fig 2 6 Reserved GB equals to Quota GB as always None when thin provisioning is enabled the reserved size will be displayed as None The size of the data that is written to this volume Block size of ZFS file system The status of deduplication This option is only visible when it supports deduplication It shows which compression option is adopted It shows which sync option is adopted It shows how many data copies will be made for this volume The number represents how many snapshots are taken for this volume Go to the snapshot management page to show all snapshots belonging to this volume It shows if there are any scheduled tasks for this volume Scheduled There is at least one task No task It shows the original volume of the snapshot clone This is not a volume clone The available functions to this volume are listed here f Edit This allows you change some attributes of this volume Items that are allowed to change can be done on the fly during data access i Delete Delete the volume Only Volume can be set as a share for file sharing purpose Folders inside a Volume can NOT be u
47. IC Available network interfaces Link aggregation is counted as individual network interface 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 36 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Address IPv4 address for cluster IP IPv6 is not supported Mask Subnet mask Network interfaces from both controllers are mirrored A Cluster IP consists of mirrored network interfaces from each controller This is to simplify failover process and allow quick debugging to identify and trace possible problems At the same time this design grants users the maximum flexibility to configure the network bandwidth and settings Assume we make LAN1 and LANG6 into a link aggregation LAG1 and make LAN3 and LAN4 into a link aggregation LAG3 The Create page will look like Fig 3 6 Cluster IP setting Cluster IP setting Select the network interfaces that you would like to cluster together Name ClusterA NIC O Management port LAN2 O LANS 192 168 11 22 _Bak _Anply _Reset Fig 3 6 Create Cluster IP with LAG Fig 3 7 below is the diagram to show the mirroring concept Network ports with the same color join to form a cluster IP Controller 1 Clu e ClusterC ClusterD ClusterE r Coniroller 2 i Fig 3 7 Mirrored design for cluster 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 37 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sear Date 2015 08 04 Revision
48. LUN must have a non zero size Put in a size you want for the LUN In Fig2 8 it is NOT grey out even though thin provisioning is checked The LUN will appear to the client operating system as if it has the allocated capacity But in fact only the size of the actual data Reserved GB is allocated dynamically by access requests After filling in everything click Apply to create a new LUN The LUN table will display all LUNs the NAS system currently has The meaning of each column is explained below LUNs LUNs Create T Delete Name Pool Quota GB Reserved GB Used GB Block size Compression Sync Copy Snapshot Schedule Original Action L1 thin Pool 100 None 0 64K Disabled Standard 1 0192 zs 0 L2 Poolt 200 200 0 64K Disabled Standard 1 0 O T7 R1 3 R1 1000 1000 9 31 64K Enabled Standard 3 369 Scheduled 5 1 R1 4 R1 1000 1000 146 62 64K Generic zero reclaim Standard 3 367 Scheduled 4 R5 3 R5 2500 2500 12 39 64K Enabled Standard 3 367 Scheduled 4 R5 4 R5 2500 2500 146 53 64K Generic zero reclaim Standard 3 368 Scheduled PAi R6 11 R6 400 400 143 68 512 bytes Disabled Standard 1 0O 2T R6 22 R6 400 400 75 85 1K Disabled Standard 1 0 O sec PA 0 R6 33 R6 400 400 43 33 2K Disabled Standard 1 1 Pii R6 44 R6 400 400 23 38 4K Disabled Standard 1 0O r7 z 417 R6 55 R6 400 400 24 09 8K Disabled Standard 1 02 7 R6 66 R6 400 400 19 75 16K Disabled Standard 1 0O Ea 417 R6 77 R 400 400
49. O RO 2 Volume 0 28 1999 71 RO RO 3 iSCSI LUN 0 09 3701 1 RO RO 4 iSCSI LUN 0 21 3698 58 RO RO 5 iSCSI LUN 0 28 3702 19 RO RO 6 iSCSI LUN 0 3702 48 D R1 R1 1 Volume 0 69 149 3 R1 R1 2 Volume 1 52 148 47 amp R1 R1 3 iSCSI LUN 0 09 162 12 O R1 R1 4 iSCSI LUN 0 2 159 59 Click Next to go to Step 2 This is where to differentiate from local clone to remote replication Select Local system and the remote system part will be grey out Replica task gt Step 2 Select target location Local system Remote system Click Next to go to Step 3 Select the storage pool to duplicate the volume or LUN Enter the name of the volume or LUN 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 100 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Ssa Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Replica task gt Step 3 Select target Target pool R5 w Name R1 2 clone x Click Next to go to Step 4 to confirm the settings Click Apply to complete the task The new task will be shown in the replication table as in Fig 6 9 below Please refer to the previous section of the item explanation of the table Replica task Create Task name Source Source pool Target IP Dedicated port Target Target pool Status Schedule Created time Last executed time Result Action R6 2 R6 2 R6 192 168 171 115 LAN1 1 Gbps R6 2 RS Inactive Every 1 hour 2015 05 26 22 15 40 2015 06 16 14 00 35 Fal O T R6 3 R6 3 R6 192
50. Qsan Controlled Print sOsa Qsan user manual Title TrioNAS LX HA software user manual Date August 2015 Revision 1 1 0 PROPRIETARY NOTE This item is the property of Qsan Inc and contains confidential and trade secret information This item may not be transferred from the custody of Qsan Inc except as authorized by Qsan Inc and then only by way of loan for limited purposes It must not be reproduced in whole or in part and must be returned to Qsan Inc upon request and in all events upon completion of the purpose of the loan Neither this item nor the information it contains may be used by or disclosed to persons not having a need for such use or disclosure consistent with the purpose to the loan without prior written consent of Qsan Inc This document is approved for general use on the date indicated The latest level is guaranteed to be current only on the date of retrieval from the repository The user of this document is responsible for obtaining the correct version and removing obsolete copies from the workplace 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 1 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Copyright Copyright 2004 2015 Qsan Technology Inc All rights reserved No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted without written permission from Qsan Technology Inc Trademarks All products and trade names used in this manual are trademarks or regi
51. R5 None Mone 64K zero reclaim Standard 1 0 lt amp R6 1 R6 1600 1600 0 84 64K Enabled Standard 3 651 gt Scheduled il dn Gener ZETO 38 oe R6 2 R6 1600 1600 1 52 4K eeiam Standard 3 61 Scheduled T Fig 6 3 Cloned volume Volume snapshot is like file snapshot and it s not limited to only an individual file but the whole share All the files and folders inside the volume are protected by volume snapshot To clone a LUN snapshot simply repeats the same process as described above You will see a new LUN created in LUN table PA TIP R When the number of snapshots taken reaches over 1024 or more booting time will become longer 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 93 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Qsan a Revision 1 1 0 Scheduled snapshot TrioNAS LX HA supports snapshot automation You may create a snapshot task that will take a snapshot periodically according to specified time duration Go to Storage management gt Snapshots gt Snapshot schedule Click Create to start a new task The meaning of each item in Fig 6 4 is described below Snapshot schedule gt Create Volumn LUN name RO RO 5 Disable Hourly Daily Weekly Every hour s Snapshot schedule gt Create Volumn LUN name ROMRO 5 w Disable Hourly Daily Weekly Atlo o clock Every day s m Snapshot schedule gt Create Volumn LUN name RO RO 5 Disa
52. Revision 1 1 0 Item name System name Admin password Buzzer System identification Auto shutdown Web management timeout Web management setting Description NAS system name This name can be used as UNC hostname to access NAS shares in Windows clients Change administrator s password Enabled When the system encounters abnormal event the alarm will be turned on Disabled Turn the alarm off permanently Click the button to make the system indicator LED flash Click again to stop it Enabled When the system detects critical and abnormal situations such as voltage or temperature is out of normal range the system will shut itself down automatically to avoid further possible damage to the system and user data Disabled The system will NOT shut itself down automatically Auto logout When the auto logout option is enabled you will be logged out of the admin interface after the time specified There are Disable default 5 minutes 30 minutes and 1 hour options Login lock When the login lock is enabled the system allows only one user to login to the web UI at a time There are Disable default and Enable options If the default port numbers of HTTP and HTTPS are not allowed on the network they can be changed here When it is done click Apply to commit the changes System time Go to System setting gt General setting gt Time to adjust the NAS system time Fig 3 2 shows the system time page Th
53. SI initiator service is not provided in TrioNAS LX HA 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 56 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sear Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Go to Storage management gt iSCSI gt General setting to adjust iSCSI target setting The meaning of each item in Fig 4 12 is explained below General setting iSCSI entity The entity name is for a device or gateway that is accessible from the network Entity name ign 2004 03 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 000901a00 iSMS IP Apply iSCSI target Show information for Hn uio e ID Authentication Node name Portal Action 19 7 168 11 121 3260 192 168 12 122 3260 192 168 11 123 3260 0 None ign 2004 03 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 000901a00 dev0 ctri 192 168 12 124 3260 iS 4 192 168 11 125 3260 192 168 12 126 3260 192 168 11 127 3260 192 168 11 121 3260 192 168 12 122 3260 192 168 11 123 3260 None ign 2004 03 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 000901a00 dev1 ctr1 192 168 12 124 3260 is 4 1927 168 11 125 3260 192 168 12 126 3260 1927 168 11 127 3260 19 7 168 11 121 3260 192 168 12 122 3260 192 168 11 123 3260 2 None ign 2004 03 com gsantechnology u400ha 424 000901a00 dev2 cir 1927 168 12 124 3260 os Z 7 192 168 11 125 3260 192 168 12 126 3260 Fig 4 12 iSCSI target service Item name Description Entity name This is the base part of iSCSI target entity name It will combine with different iSCSI target IDs to
54. SOsar Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Glossary and Acronym List Common Terminology Item RAID PD Pool ZFS LUN GUI RO DS DG SCSI SAS S M A R T WWN HBA NIC BBM Description Redundant Array of Independent Disks There are different RAID levels with different degree of data protection data availability and performance to host environment The Physical Disk belongs to the member disk of one specific RAID group A collection of removable media One pool consists of one or several RAID sets ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems The features of ZFS include data integrity verification against data corruption modes support for high storage capacities integration of the concepts of file system and volume management snapshots and copy on write clones continuous integrity checking Logical Unit Number A logical unit number LUN is a unique identifier which enables it to differentiate among separate devices each one is a logical unit Graphic User Interface Set the volume to be Read Only Dedicated Spare disks The spare disks are only used by one specific RG Others could not use these dedicated spare disks for any rebuilding purpose DeGraded mode Not all of the array s member disks are functioning but the array is able to respond to application read and write requests to its virtual disks Small Computer Systems Interface Serial Attac
55. TriNAS LX HA software manual Ssa Date 2015 08 04 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Revision 1 1 0 EMO aa E E E E E 74 DECON T C5 E E aa E E E A AE E EEE 73 P ST AND EINU CISC MINTA TOR inea SEA EE E ENES 74 AEE a EE E EE E E E E E O E TE E E 74 HOW to Use LINUX 1S SIMI EIACON sasira ann rE E O A E N E N 74 How to Set up DM Multipath ssnnneessennsssseenssseeresssreresssrerosserrrosssrresssreressereresserreossereesssreressseeeesseree 77 How to exclude local disks ccccccccsssssccecceeseccccceseccecseesecccssaaueccesseaseecessaeueeeesseaaeeesseaaseeessaeaeeeeees 77 MANAGE USER GROUP AND DOMAIN ssssssssssesesssscossesossescosescossscossesosseseossscossesossesosseseossseossesossesessese 81 LOCALACCOUNT MANAGEMENT iccesstscendcedensenssudnesiseioicatasaddneddic a a aana anni aa aa ai 81 LOCU o A O e E E Gera ceo tae eucensaboacomneecetuns 81 LOCI UA A O r E E 83 UNIFEDA UTA FONCTION scccneuccaseensnnedanesigeteserennnGaanaiest a e R a RERE Ea a 84 ACTIVE DIRECTORY MANAGEMENT sssrircioserissierannprncrenn na n aaa neee iana ar a 85 LOAF MANA CEMENT irern r E E E E E E E T 87 IMPORT EXPORT ACCOUNT disussuccoscnsuaesircsuncoas svenpiacsnondasasseaccunichiedues downsddecisncancouvapiasebeegiaadoespninubredssaassanrseenuadess 89 ACCOUNT SPECIFICATION crionna sclera pings aatesancepugunosencennadacetecetacabancen qe nace O E AE E 90 DATA PROTECTION SNAPSHOT REPLICATION BACKUP sscccssssccccsssccccsss
56. UN that the Snapshot is taken upon to store the differential data 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 92 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Snapshot gt Clone Please select a target volumn LUN to be cloned snapshot name Ra R5 1 AUTO 201 50609 2300 Pool name RS volum LUN name R5_R5 1_clone Mea m Fig 6 2 Clone a snapshot Because R5 1 is a volume in storage pool R5 Go to Storage management gt Volumes to check out volume table as Fig 6 2 below A new volume R5_R5 1_ clone is created and the Original attribute shows this volume comes from a snapshot R5 R5 1 AUTO 20150609 2300 Now you can make a network share out of R5 1 and retrieve any file or folder you want Volumes Create Delete Quota Reserved Used Block Copy Snapshot _ ae a Name Pool GB GB GB con Compression Sync Schedule Original Action RO 1 RO 2000 2000 g 64K Enabled Standard 3 4 Scheduled T RO 2 RO 2000 2000 028 6K MEME ZETO standard 3 27 Scheduled z 7 R1 1 Ri 150 150 0 69 64K Enabled Standard 3 5 Scheduled T By Generic ZETO aondar i R1 2 Ri 150 150 1 52 64K recia Standard 3 57 Scheduled i Tl R5 1 R5 2400 2400 0 86 64K Enabled Standard 3 51 Scheduled Fa T Genenc ZEO mea aa i sD i R5 2 R5 2400 2400 1 52 64K aan Standard 3 61 Scheduled T R5_R5 1_clone R5 2400 2400 g 64K Enabled Standard 3 02 a UserHome
57. Unallocated O 400 00 GB Unallocated Disk 3 a Basic 400 00 GB 400 00 GB Offline i Unallocated lt 3cD ROMO DVD D Fig 4 30 Three LUNs attached to iSCSI target node 63 Set MC S The way to construct MC S is similar to MPIO but it goes through different UI in iSCSI initiator Let s use iSCSI target node O for example First we create connection to iSCSI target node 0 through path A Path A server port s1 11 87 to LAN2 controller1 11 123 coed Select iSCSI initiator for Local adapter ener IPSec Connect using Select 192 168 11 87 for Initiator IP Local adapter Microsoft iSCSI Initiator oe 192 168 11 87 v Select 192 168 11 123 for Target portal Target portal P IP Default ORC Ch 192 168 11 121 3250 hecksum 197 168 12 122 3200 192 168 11 123 3260 E Click Ok to establish the connection L_ Data digest 192 168 12 124 3250 192 168 11 125 3260 bja J 192 168 12 126 3260 Enable CHAP logon 165 168 11 127 CHAP Log on information 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 71 Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Qsan Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Identifier _ ffffeoo00obof230 400001370000000c To add a session dick Add session To disconnect one or more sessions select each Disconnect O session and then click Disconnect med To view devices assodated with a session select a sess
58. a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host or to another host over a TCP based network such as the Internet Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning WebDAV is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP that facilitates collaboration between users in editing and managing documents and files stored on World Wide Web servers Data deduplication is a specialized data compression technique for eliminating duplicate copies of repeating data Thin provisioning is the act of using virtualization technology to give the appearance of having more physical resources than are actually available The term thin provisioning is applied to disk later in this article but could refer to an allocation scheme for any resource iSCSI Terminology Item iSCSI LACP MPIO MC S MTU CHAP ISNS 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved Description Internet Small Computer Systems Interface Link Aggregation Control Protocol Multi Path Input Output Multiple Connections per Session Maximum Transmission Unit Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol An optional security mechanism to control access to an iSCSI storage system over the iSCSI data ports Internet Storage Name Service 115
59. abehsanneantantdacuhtachatnhanndammacannauls 53 DATA SERVICES as igre wt esd anager adept ea AOE EE EEEO 54 ROUT SCS tere esses saat sca A E E E A E TE E A AEE E ET 54 NFS service nssesssesssesssesssesssesssesssrsssesssesssesssosseosssosseosseosseosscosseessessseessessseesstsstesssesstesseesseesseesseessees 56 SS TNE a E E E E E 56 LUN mapping manage memi sessirnir eenn nE E E EE E EATE EEN 58 CIES ARCANINE E E T T A E E E T E E 59 Method 1 The address input in Explorer cccccsssscccccesseccccceeseccceeeesececeseesecesseeaeeeessaeaeeeesseaeseeees 60 Method 2 The command line input from start button essseensssssenssssrerssserersssreresssrrresssreresseere 60 Method 3 Map a network drive in EXplOrer cccccccccsssecccccesecceeseeseceeeeeeseceeesseeceeseueneeeeeseeeeeeeees 61 NIF SAND LIN iparon EE A E E AE AE 62 FR CU Ale CII e E E E E E E E 62 FROM el VIC O earen AE E E E EA E ETE ce deena nam een EE 62 open ole aO ea E ee A E 62 NES AND VSAPERE Sirermitiirrisra ir na ene eer A ENN EE AEN E NEE EEA EEN OAE eee errr 63 SCSI AND WINDOWS ISCSI INITIATOR asissanscacancrenialawshscmtontsensnaeubsanvanedansnaeibsaireaad samen A EE NEE REENA N NER 63 Connect tO iSCSI target s ssessesssrssessesseesressresesseesrresroseoseesrresresesseesrreresseoseesreerreseoseeserereeseeseeseee 64 CITC OUTI CIS re E E E E 65 SE MPI a E ENE E E E EE E 67 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 6 Qsan document title
60. access There are 3 forms allowed Putting in an invalid form or value will cause IO error or inability to access the share Please be careful o A valid IP address o A DNS recognized name the system name or machine name o FQDN name Fully Qualified Domain Name Domain Use this option if you want to allow all the computers in a certain network domain to have access to the share Everyone Allow access to computers from all kinds of IP addresses CAUTION Please be aware that users will have only read permission to their own home directory shares using NFS service This is due to security purpose and the nature of NFS protocol This is to avoid that a user uses a matching UID to access someone else home directory CAUTION Be careful of the rules you put in Users need to have basic knowledge about how to set up NFS exports parameters The system will not do validation check for you It s up to user s discretion to provide the correct rules 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 50 Qsan Check CIFS to enable CIFS access control rules as in Fig 4 3 below Revision 1 1 0 Share services Users and groups Local user Local group Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Date 2015 08 04 M CIES MINES Name Denied Read only C Read Write Name A Denied Read only L Read Write admin guest ul u10 u2 u3 ud u5 u u7 ooo eo Oo OHO Theat h at h ji Tat e
61. ading data from the disks which means the pool is not ready for use yet The health of the hard drive Good The hard drive is good Failed The hard drive is failed Error alert S M A R T error alerts Read errors The hard drive has unrecoverable read errors Reserved The disk is one of the member disks of a RAID group It contains RAID group and pool information but the original RAID group and pool can t be found Either you put this disk at its original slot or set this disk as a free disk Unknown SAS drive doesn t support S M A R T so it displays Unknown The S M A R T status of the hard drive Unknown The S M A R T of the hard drive is unknown No error The S M A R T of the hard drive has no error 16 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sear Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Usage SSD Vendor Serial Rate Write cache Action 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved Has error The S M A R T of the hard drive has error The usage of the hard drive RAID disk This hard drive has been set to a RAID group Free disk This hard drive is free for use Dedicated spare This hard drive has been set as dedicated spare of a pool Reserved There are RAID data on this disk But other RAID member disks are missing If this disk is no longer used for sure it can be set as a free disk Drive type It s either HDD magnetic motor or SSD flash Hard drive vendor Har
62. appening if the power cannot be recovered within the configured time such as 30 seconds the system will auto shutdown at the moment This function will be disabled if the configured seconds is set to 0 Shutdown UPS The status of shutdown UPS e ON The system will send the command to shutdown the connected UPS if one of the above functions is triggered when the power outage is happening e OFF Disable this function The system will shutdown either Shutdown battery level or Shutdown delay s reaches the condition User should set these values carefully 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 47 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsan ee Revision 1 1 0 Manage shares LUNs and data services This chapter describes how to create shares access and manage shares and LUNs on TrioNAS LX HA All data services will be explained here Below are the sections included in this chapter e Share management LUN management Data services e CIFS and Windows NFS and Linux e NFS and vSphere e iSCSI target for Windows iSCSI initiator Share management In TrioNAS LX HA only volumes created from a storage pool can be used as shares Folders inside a volume are not allowed to be used as shares However folders inside a share support Windows ACL function for added privilege settings Create shares Because shares come from volumes or volumes turn into shares make sure you
63. at if you plan to use SATA drives the MUX board is needed to provide the dual path function for dual controller mode because both controllers have to be able to access the same hard drive through independent circuit paths Fig 2 1 6Gb MUX board If a SATA drive without MUX board is installed it will NOT be recognized by TrioNAS LX HA system 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 15 eQsan Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Below is the hard drive table The meaning of each column will be explained later All applicable functions are grouped in the last column Action Physical disks Physical disk Show disk for Local Slot No Size GB Pool name Status 4 Oo OO N OD oO amp WwW N 931 931 931 931 931 931 931 931 931 931 931 931 5589 5589 5589 5589 5589 RO RO R1 R1 R6 Column Name Slot No Size GB Pool Name Status Health SMARTCTL 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved Health SMARTCTL Usage SSD Vendor Serial Rate Write cache Action Online Unknown Unknown Freedisk No SEAGATE Z1W2BDTTOOO0C44878KG SAS 6 0 Gbit Enabled i Fs Online Unknown Unknown Freedisk No SEAGATE Z1W2B5680000C44876CU SAS 6 0 Gbit Enabled i Be Online Unknown Unknown Freedisk No SEAGATE 2Z1W2BC590000C44849S0 SAS 6 0 Gbit Enabled i Be Online Unknown Unknown Freedisk No SEAGATE 2Z21W2B4X50000C4488AQR SAS 6 0 Gbit Enabled i Fs Online Unknow
64. ate 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Dashboard section Disk throughput Network flow CPU usage Memory usage System information Temperature Power supply Cooling Pool status Nic status Event log Service status UPS status Online connections Description The unit is KByte s Disks belonging to the same RAID group will have the same color It helps you see visually where the bottleneck is The unit is Mbit s It s performance monitor function Use the drop down list on upper right corner to select the peer controller CPU workload How much memory is consumed Same information of System setting gt Maintenance gt System information Same information of Monitor gt Hardware monitor gt Temperature Same information of Monitor gt Hardware monitor gt Power supply Same information of Monitor gt Hardware monitor gt Cooling Simplified table of Storage management gt Pools Simplified table of System setting gt Network gt General setting Simplified table of System setting gt Network gt General setting Summarized information of Privilege setting gt File services Same information of System setting gt Power management gt UPS You can check who connects to TrioNAS LX HA to get a general idea of its usage The connections are categorized into two kinds file service and iSCSI service Go to Dashboard gt Online connections gt File service All file sharing connec
65. ations and click Create to start a new task Enter the name of the task and select the volume or LUN you want to duplicate Replica task gt Step 1 Select source Task name replicaremote is Name Type Used GB Free GB O RO RO 1 Volume 0 2000 RO RO 2 Volume 0 28 1999 774 O RO RO 3 iSCSI LUN 0 09 3701 1 C RO RO 4 iSCSI LUN 0 21 3693 58 C RO RO 5 iSCSI LUN 0 28 3702 19 C RO RO 6 iSCSI LUN D 3702 48 C Ri R1 1 Volume 0 69 149 3 O Ri R1 3 iSCSI LUN 0 09 162 12 amp Ri R1 4 iSCSI LUN 0 2 159 59 Click Next to go to Step 2 This is where to differentiate from local clone to remote replication Select Remote system and put in the related information of the remote NAS system The meaning of each item in Fig 6 6 is described below Replica task gt Step 2 Select target location Local system Remote system Target IF fis21688214 sis User name lamn lt i lt i i isS Password ST Dedicated port Auto Management port 100 1000 Mbps LAN 1 Gbps LAN 1 Gbps LAN4 Down LANS 1 Gbps LANG 1 Gbps Fig 6 6 Step 2 of replication task Item name Description Target IP IP address of the network port of the remote NAS system All network ports can be used for remote replication Management port can be used for remote replication as well User name Enter admin Password Enter admin password Dedicated port Select a network port that will be used for this r
66. ble Hourly Daily weekly At O o clock Every weeks E Monday L Tuesday E Wednesday O Thursday O Friday E Saturday O Sunday a E Fig 6 4 Create a snapshot task Select the volume or LUN that you want to take a snapshot from the drop down list The syntax is A B where A stands for pool name and B stands for volume name or LUN name There three types of periodic schedule to choose from hourly daily and weekly 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 94 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsar Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Item name Hourly Daily Weekly Description Take a snapshot every few hours Drop down list supports 1 2 3 4 6 8 and 12 The snapshot will be taken every 1 hour or every 2 hours or every 3 hours etc Take a snapshot at specific hour every few days Drop down list supports 0 23 Enter a number for the duration of days Take a snapshot at specific hour on certain week day s every few weeks Drop down list supports 0 23 Enter a number for the duration of weeks Use checkbox to select the week day you want Multiple selections are allowed Click Apply to commit the changes Fig 6 5 below shows the snapshot task table The meaning of each item in Fig 6 5 is described below Snapshot schedule 4 Create Name Ri R1i 3 Ri Ri 4 RO RO 1 RO RO 2 RO RO 3 RO RO 4 Ri Ri 1 Ri Ri 2 Item name Name Schedule type Descr
67. com qsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 1a00 dev L ctrl Inactive ign 2004 08 com gsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 1a00 dev 1 ctr2 Inactive ian 2004 08 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 la00 dev63 ctr1 Connected lt LaUUsGeVos lt ni gt To connect using advanced options select a target and then dick Connect 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 70 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Done Now you can use the LUNs from iSCSI target node 63 with controller failover protection and increased bandwidth As in Fig 4 30 host server can now use the three LUNs attached to iSCSI target node 63 File Action View Help gt i A Computer Management Local Volume Layout Type File System Stets To A 4 System Tools Simple Basic Healthy Recovery Partition p Task Scheduler cw Simple Basic Healthy EFI System Partition 1 gt g Event Viewer amp Tools E Simple Basic NTFS Healthy Primary Partition 9 v gt R Shared Folders lt m gt gt amp Local Users and Groups a gt Performance CDisk 0 a a es E i Device Manager Basic W2K12R2 C Tools E 4 amp Storage es GB 300 MB 4 100MB 28 78 GB NTFS _ 9 05 GB NTFS gt Ya Windows Server Backup nline Healthy R Healthy Healthy Boot Page Fi Healthy Primary Pa Disk Management jen b E Services and Applications A S S 400 00 GB
68. cting hosts to U400HA or U600HA directly is a wrong way to do You can still use U400HA and U600HA by point to point direct connection but high availability functions such as controller failover failback and fail safe networking will not work at all Below is a typical example of a wrong cabling topology hha if io mamee aia ame me Console Getting started for the very first time setup wizard Turn on power to boot the NAS system Booting process will take about 7 10 minutes During booting please wait until the slave controller is ready The CTR LED will lit green when it s ready When each controller is ready the alarm will sound once so the alarm will sound the second time when the system is ready After you can connect to TrioNAS LX HA and get to the login screen the setup wizard will guide you through the initial settings The idea is to help you quickly get to use the powerful NAS system with minimum efforts You can always change and modify the settings done in the setup wizard afterwards This setup wizard will appear when all hard drives are free disks After login you will see the following screen to set up the following items System Network Cluster IP and Storage Click Ef on the upper right corner to enter each setup page for details QSM Quick Install Language English System setup System name U400HA FFBOOO T
69. d 42 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Osa Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Click Create link aggregation to start with link aggregation All seven Linux aggregation modes are supported which includes round robin active backup trunking broadcast LACP transmit load balancing and adaptive load balancing Like VLAN setting aggregation will be automatically applied to both controllers due to cluster IP design This is why in Fig 3 15 it shows information from both controllers You can set up LAG IP address in one step This also echoes to Fig 3 7 diagram Please be aware that management port is not allowed for aggregation This is to make sure that at least this port can provide management function if all other data ports go wrong LAN setting gt Create link aggregation Select the network interfaces that you would like to bond together Trunking group Oan Mitans O Aggregation Adaptive Load Balancing Controller 1 Controller 2 IPv4 setting DHCP DHCP BOOTP BOOTP Static Static Address 9216812126 921468312146 O o Mask 255 255 0 0 25525500 Back Apply Reset Fig 3 15 Create link aggregation TIP Aggregation mode Round Robin Transmit network packets in sequential order from the first available network interface NIC slave through the last This mode provides load balancing and fault tolerance Active Backup Only one NIC slave in the bond is active A differe
70. d drive serial number Hard drive rate SAS 6Gb s SAS 3Gb s SATA 6Gb s SATA 3Gb s SATA 1 5Gb s This is the cache buffer function on the hard drive Enabled write back mode faster Disabled write through mode slower The default value is Enabled All applicable functions are listed here SMARTCTL self test this will run through a basic S M A R T test tool and generate a log file to help you access the status of this particular drive The drive needs to support S M A R T in the first place Download SMART log file Set free disk Use this function to set a Reserved disk to be a free disk Replace disk Replace this hard drive with another free disk Turn on LED indicator LED indicator is located on the HDD tray hl E I atr 2 rh 17 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Osan ee Revision 1 1 0 Storage pool TrioNAS LX HA adopts the most advanced 128bit file system ZFS The fundamental structure is storage pool which consists of at least one RAID group The inter relationships of hard drive pool share and LUN are described in Fig 2 2 below Host interface pa i ji LUN1 LUN2 map Storage pool RAID set 1 RAID set 2 Hard spare RAID set m RAIDO RAIDS dedicated RAIDS Share1 Share2 Sha UN Volume1 Volume2 y Har Fig 2 2 Storage structure A storage pool consists of multiple RAID groups with different RAID levels The Capacit
71. de button to start You will see Fig 7 5 the progress bar to indicate the percentage of completion During upgrade process please make sure the power source remains ON all the time Otherwise the upgrade process will fail and result in boot failure the next time you power on the system Firmware upgrade Firmware upgrade Programming 34 i Fig 7 5 Progress bar The upgrade process will refresh SATA DOM with the latest firmware content When it s done Fig 7 4 below will pop up to indicate the completion 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 108 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsar Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 The page at 192 168 170 221 says Upgrade successfully Please reboot system to make the upgraded firmware work Fig 7 6 Firmware upgrade completion notice The next step after Fig 7 6 is to execute reboot function to make the latest firmware take effect To provide the upmost high availability each RAID controller will reboot itself in turns The data services will not stop during upgrade process Because of this the overall process may take up to 10 minutes When the firmware versions on both controllers are different the slave controller will be locked down The decision is based on the mastership even though the slave controller has newer firmware version If this locked down situation happens and it is due to firmware version mismatch click on Synchron
72. different accounts passwords in order to access data using different data services In TrioNAS LX HA the same local and domain account can be used by all data services CIFS NFS iSCSI It s built in as default so there is no setting in web UI management You can experience the benefits it brings you when you use all data services at the same time Unified By AD LDAP or Local Account 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 84 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsan ee Revision 1 1 0 Active Directory management TrioNAS LX HA can integrate seamlessly with Windows Active Directory service which comes from Windows Server 2003 and beyond Trust types support parent child two way trust Certain requirements are needed to set up and join AD domain correctly e Primary DNS Domain Name Server setting is identical to that of the Active Directory server e The system time is synchronous with that of the Active Directory server with less than 1 minute tolerance Only one directory service can be enabled at all time No two directory services can be enabled at the same time Switching directory service will result in losing Access Control List of all shares from the previous directory service Go to Privilege setting gt Accounts gt Directory services and select Active directory Standalone is the default setting which means that the NAS system does not join any domain or dir
73. e F el ere Lees lt CD Drive H SanDisk I This folder is empty shared astra K others astra L Automation 192 168 10 6 M jm release 192 168 10 6 N qda astra 0 My Web Sites on MSN iA 192 168 8 180 4 sqdb2 A ADMINISTRATOR i CHRISCHOU Hy gt 0 tems Offline status Online Offline availability Not available 0 items A Method 2 The command line input from start button Click Start button to bring up the start menu In the command line input put in the share path and press Enter The rest is the same as described in Option 1 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 60 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Qsan Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 1921688180801 Dee o B Method 3 Map a network drive in Explorer Please follow the steps below to map a network share from Qsan unified storage to a drive letter The network share will be automatically mapped the next time you boot your Windows Open a Windows Explorer from Start button or by pressing Start key E Go to Tools and select Map network drive C Libraries L Documents Music m A videos l Administrator H etx Gore computers wwz 3297 o ewa A 2012 3 29 F 02 2012 1 14 F 10 2009 7 14 10 2012 6 20 F 01 2012 4 23 F 03 2012 3 11 11 2012 1 15 11
74. e connection SSH secure shell software is required for remote login The SSH client software is available at the following web site SSH Tectia Client http www ssh com PuTTY http www chiark greenend org uk 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 111 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sait i Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 The default management IP address is 192 168 1 234 255 255 255 0 please configure your computer IP address at the same subnet of the system e g 192 168 1 1 255 255 255 0 The remote control settings are on the following Host IP lt P Address gt e g 192 168 1 234 Port 2222 User Name admin Password 1234 DAY TIP Qsan system supports SSH for remote access only When using SSH the IP address and password are required for login Console UI When login to the system there is a prompt type help and press Enter button It will display help description as Fig 8 2 below 197 168 11 171 PuTTY L Lio Lo rel H i 4 H HPH ft work port t Le i mag er b Ph fi er Hs et Vice for Management Rt rh W 14 8 amp 8 S jji er ect b et ai B H FLCe used ISR F a fo KR Lo o f tf et Ps H TE int Dump Z Fig 8 2 Console UI commands Each command is explained below info Print the system information console gt info System Product U400HA Name U400HA xxxxxx Version 1 0 0 Network
75. e is no RAID protection in SSD read cache T P TIP R Only SSD drives can be used as SSD cache which includes read cache L2ARC and write cache ZIL ZFS Intent Log Volumes Volume is where the end users store and access their files from heterogeneous operating systems such as Windows Linux Unix and Mac Data services relating to Volumes are CIFS SMB and NFS Network shares are created from these volumes by giving them share names Before you can create a network share a volume needs to be created Go to Storage Management gt Volumes page and click Create The meaning of each item in Fig 2 6 will be described below AFP FTP and WebDAV services are coming soon in the near future 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 22 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Ssa Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Volumes Volumes gt Create Name Pool Property Compression Sync Number of data copies Block size Column Name Name Pool Property Compression Sync 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved Thin provisioning Disable Zero reclaim Generic zero reclaim Enable Disable Standard Always One O Two Three BAK W 2733 GB w Fig 2 6 Create a Volume Description Volume name Use the drop down list to select the pool you want to use Thin provisioning Use the check box to enable it Deduplication This will be pro
76. e meaning of each item will be explained below Time Time and date setup Keep current time Manual Get from internet time server User defined time server address Time zone setup Time zone 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved tock stdtime gov tw UTC 08 00 Taipei Apply Reset Fig 3 2 System time 32 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sear Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Item name Description Keep current time Click the radio to use the available system time Manual Click the radio to manually adjust the system time Get from Internet Click radio button and enter the IP address of NTP Network Time time server Protocol server to synchronize the system time with a time server Time zone Select the expected time zone Daylight saving time will be adjusted automatically When it is done click Apply button to commit the changes High availability Qsan dual controller NAS is a two node cluster design Each RAID controller is a storage node Data communications heartbeat write cache mirroring command shipping IO shipping etc between the two nodes are accomplished by the high bandwidth buses on the backplane The system always runs in active active mode by design and both RAID controllers can deliver data services at the same time to allow performance scale as well as capacity scale High availability consists of two parts one is controller failo
77. e multipath RQ devices Here is the parameter manual multipath Without parameters create the devmaps for the multipath devices h Print this usage text l Show multipath topology sysfs and DM info II Show multipath topology maximum info f Flush a multipath device map F Flush all multipath device maps C Check if advice should be a path in a multipath device q Allow queue_if_no_path whenmultipathd is not running d Dry run do not creat or update devmaps r Force devmap reload p Policy failover multibus group_by_serial group _by_prio b fil Bindings file location p pol Force all maps to specified path grouping policy failover 1 path per priority group multibus all paths in 1 priority group group_by_serial 1 priority group per serial group_by_prio 1 priority group per priority level group_ by node name 1 priority group per target node v lvl Verbosity level 0 no output 1 print created devmap names only 2 default verbosity 3 print debug information Dev Action limited to Multipath named dev ex mpathO or Multipath whose wwidis dev ex 60051 Multipath including the path named dev ex dev sda Multipath including the path with maj min dev ex 8 0 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 80 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Manage user group and domain This chapter introduces how to create and manage use
78. ealthy Healthy Boot Page F Healthy Primary Pi t Disk Management f b Fy Services and Applications Disk 1 Unknown 200 00 GB 200 00 GB Offline i Unallocated BDisk 2 Basic 100 00 GB 100 00 GB Offline i Unallocated ee Fig 4 21 New disks in server DVD D So by choosing different iSCSI target nodes you can use different sets of LUNs attached to those iSCSI target nodes So we can assign different LUNs to different servers All servers can share the same storage space in TrioNAS LX HA to achieve maximum efficiency Let s disconnect iSCSI target node 0 and Targets Discovery Favorite Targets Volumes and Devices RADIUS Configuration connect iSCSI target node 63 The result Quick Connect will look like below To discover and log on to a target using a basic connection type the IP address or DNS name of the target and then dick Quick Connect Discovered targets Refresh Name Status ign 2004 08 com gsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 la00 devO cr1 Inactive ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 la00 dey icti Inactive jon 2004408 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 la00 dev 3 cr1 Connected 66 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Fig 4 22 shows that original iSCSI target node O has been disconnected Connect to iSCSI target node 63 File Action View Help 4a Bla g l Computer Manag
79. ectory service Fig 5 5 below will pop up after selecting Active directory Directory service Type Active directory Note Please make sure the DNS setting is the same as primary domain controller Domain controller name or IP address 192 168 139 1 Domain administrator account administrator Domain administrator password lecceesss sis Fully qualified domain name kevin2012 ad tw NetBIOS domain name fkevin2012 CS O C S Set AD account synchronization period Ef minutes Fig 5 5 Active directory login page Please enter correct data for each entry and click Ok to start logging into the domain Fig 5 6 shows the related information of this Active Directory server Please be aware of the FQDN entry to exclude the actual computer name Using the actual computer name will cause login process failed AD account synchronization period is set as 5 minutes It means that TrioNAS LX HA will ask Active Directory server every 5 minutes for updated information such as new accounts deleted accounts password changes etc 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 85 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 T m gt Control Panel System and Security System v Search Control Panel 2 Control Panel H ontrol Panel Home ai View basic information about your computer Device Manager Windows edition W Remote s
80. ee 1 2 3 Cache BBM an mee it it USB1 USB2 Console UPS Fig 1 2 Master controller LED 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 10 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Qsan EN Revision 1 1 0 The M S LED on the controller panel will lit as green It means this controller is the master controller Web UI service will only run on master controller Network port to the far right labeled with Management is the management port Open a compatible browser and put in IP address of the management port in URL and the login web UI should pop up as the screenshot below U6000 909780 Go to Configuration gt Network Configuration gt Network Setting to change the management port IP or other network ports to fit your network environment Please be aware that all network ports LAN1 LAN6 management can provide management interface When the product is shipped out all network ports use DHCP as default If you don t have DHCP server in your network environment all network ports Support zero configuration function which is the network port will assign an IP address to itself automatically as 169 254 xxx xxx with network mask of 255 255 0 0 You may adjust you local computer s IP setting to match this in order to connect to web management interface Using Qfinder Qfinder is a handy Java tool to help locate Qsan storage systems on the same local area network If you don t want to u
81. ement Local 4 System Tools b Task Scheduler gt Event Viewer gt Shared Folders Simple Basic Healthy Recovery Partition The two drives in Fig 4 21 are gone 3 Tools E aoe a NTFS deesdae i ak because iSCSI target node O has been p amp Local Users and Groups disconnected Performance j a Device Manager Basic W2K12R2 C Tools E 4 Storage 38 22 GB 300MB 100MB 28 78 GB NTFS _ 9 05 GB NTFS p Mb Windows Server Backup I iam Hesithy Goal Healthy Ti Hesithy Boot Page Fi I Hesithy Primary Pa The three LUNs attached to iSCSI Disk Management MLLER p Senices and Applications copu M target node 63 are now shown in Basic i oae amooo Ge server system as Fig 4 23 on the left Ine 4 Unallocated CL You may check Fig 2 9 for LUN details 400 00 GB 400 00 GB Offline i Unallocated Disk 3 O llU Basic 400 00 GB 400 00 GB Offline i Unallocated Fig 4 23 Connect to another iSCSI target node Set MPIO Before using MPIO please make sure the MPIO function is enabled in host server Fig 4 24 below shows the MPIO service in Windows Server 2012 If MPIO service is not enabled in host server you will see multiple drives that are actually the same LUN in host server MPIO Devices Discover Mult Paths DSM Install Configuration Snapshot To add support for a new device dick Add and enter the Vendor and Product Ids as a string of amp characters
82. eplication is asynchronous and employs snapshot function to perform efficient differential backup at block level Remote replication will take up network bandwidth to send differential data If you experience slow system performance please reduce the remote replication tasks One to one replication task is supported instead of one to many This means that the same replication source can not coexist in different replication tasks The maximum remote replication tasks are 16 which includes both local clone tasks and remote replication tasks Remote replication connection is created through SSH protocol to guarantee the security of data transmission All TrioNAS series and TrioNAS LX series can use remote replication between each other The mechanism behind the scene is that the task is always initialized by the master controller The actual replication process of sending receiving data is carried out by the owner controller of the volume or LUN This will guarantee the efficiency and avoid unnecessary command shipping and I O shipping across backplane Should controller failover happens the master controller and the owner controller become the same So there is no problem there TrioNAS LX HA q TrioNAS U120 TrioNAS LX U300 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 96 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sean Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Remote replication Go to Applications gt Backup gt Replic
83. eplication task If controller failover happens the equivalent network port on the other controller will resume the replication task seamlessly 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 97 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sear Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Auto means that the NAS system will decide which network port to use according to the routing table Drop down list will display all available network ports Link aggregation will not be displayed here Click Next to proceed to Step 3 as in Fig 6 7 below Use the drop down list of Target pool to select which storage pool to use to store replication data Enter the name for the replicated volume or LUN Replica task gt Step 3 Select target Target pool Name R1 4 replica x Ree Fig 6 7 Step 3 Select storage pool on remote system Click Next to go to Step 4 to confirm the settings Click Apply to complete the task When the task is just created there is no schedule setting The periodic duration is set as disabled The new task will be shown in the replication table as in Fig 6 8 below The meaning of each item in Fig 6 8 is described below Replica task 4 Create Task name Source Source pool Target IP Dedicated port Target Target pool Status Schedule Created time Last executed time Result Action R6 2 R6 2 RG 192 168 11 115 LAN1 1 Gbps R 2 R5 Inactive Every 1 hour 2015 05 26 22 15 40 2015 06 16
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85. esents the absolute path that the end user doesn t need to know mount lt IP address of NAS gt nfs share lt share name gt lt mount point gt For example mount 192 168 8 180 nfs share SQL_DB2 mnt nas Redhat Linux 6 The default attempt will try to use NFS version 4 protocol to set up connection in Redhat Linux 6 Use the following syntax to mount an NFS share mount lt IP address of NAS gt lt share name gt lt mount point gt For example mount 192 168 8 180 SQL_DB2 mnt nas Open Solaris 10 11 Open Solaris 10 11 will use NFS version 4 as default Use the following syntax to mount an NFS share 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 62 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 mount F nfs o rw lt IP address of NAS gt lt share name gt lt mount point gt For example mount F nfs o rw 192 168 8 180 SQL_DB2 mnt nas NFS and vShpereS If you want to use TrioNAS LX HA as vSphere 5 storage through NFS connection please make sure you export the NFS share with read write access rights In the vSphere 5 UI setting for NFS share please use the following syntax as shown in the screenshot below nfs share lt share name gt ioj xi Locate Network File System Which shared folder will be used as a vSphere datastore E NAS Properties Network File System HTSster tP Ready to Complete Server 192 168 8 241 E
86. etc iscsi iscsid conf node startup Automatic Set auto login when discover target node session auth authmethod CHAP Enable CHAP auth node session auth username username Set CHAP username node session auth password password Set CHAP password Please restart the iSCSI service to make these changes work service iscsi restart The rpm package iscsi initiator utils provides a command line tool called iscsiadm It can manage the connections to iSCSI target The iscsiadm tool has three operational modes discovery node and session The following will introduce these modes 1 Discovery the all port and target name by iscsiadm m discovery Operational mode discovery is used to discover the target the usage is iscsiadm m discovery t st p target_ip iscsiadm m discovery t st p 10 10 10 100 192 168 1 1 3260 0 iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr1 192 168 2 1 3260 0 iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr1 10 10 10 100 3260 1 iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr1 192 168 4 1 3260 1 iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr1 iscsiadm m discovery t st p 192 168 195 22 192 168 5 1 3260 0 iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr2 192 168 6 1 3260 0 iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr2 192 168 195 22 3260 1 iqn 2004 08 com qsantechnology p600q d316 000901d00 dev0 ctr2 192
87. ettings Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Advanced system settings 2012 Microsoft Corporation All rights reserved a Wi ndows Serve r201 2 System Processor Intel R Pentium R 4 CPU 3 00GHz 3 00 GHz Installed memory RAM 1 00 GB System type 64 bit Operating System x64 based processor Pen and Touch No Pen or Touch Input is available for this Display Computer name domain and workgroup settings Computer name WIN EUD8FASMH5P Change settings Full computer name WIN EUD8FA5SMHS5P kevin2012 ad tw Computer description Domain kevin2012 ad tw Fig 5 6 Windows Server that runs Active Directory service It will take a few minutes to complete the login process If there are over thousands of accounts it will take even longer When it s done the following dialog box will pop up to notify that it s done Message from webpage i Joined U400HA B9A830 to realm kevin2012 ad tw Directory service changed to active directory Go back to user account page or group account page From the drop down list you can select Domain user or Domain group To distinguish from local user and local group the way to display domain user and domain group is different The syntax for domain user and domain group is below lt domain name gt lt user account gt lt domain name gt lt group account gt Fig 5 7 below shows the domain user accounts The same applies to domain group accounts as well If a tree like domain str
88. gets Volumes and Devices RADIUS Configuration f address from one of the network interfaces a of controller 1 Check out Fig 4 15 on the left The system will look for Targets on following portals Address Port Adapter IP address 192 168 12 122 3260 Default Default Click Ok and click on Targets tab It will automatically discover all iSCSI target nodes a aes emulated iSCSI targets on controller 1 want to add To change the default settings of the discovery of the target portal click the Advanced button IP address or DNS name Port Default is 3260 ES Ea Te ee Fig 4 15 Discover iSCSI targets The other way to locate an iSCSI target is to e u ns Targets Discovery Favorite Targets Volumes and Devices RADIUS Configuration enter a full ISCSI entity name In Target Input Quick Connect box in Fig 4 16 on the left All iSCSI nodes that To discover and log on to a target using a basic connection type the IP address or DNS name of the target and then dick Quick Connect have at least one LUN attached to it will be na 4 TTT discovered and displayed in iSCSI initiator as in arget Quick Connect Fig 4 16 on the left Discovered targets Refresh Nami enn AE In Fig 4 16 because only 3 nodes have LUNs ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology u400ha 424 00090 1a00 dev0 ctri Inactive ign 2004 08 com qsantechnology us00ha 424 000901a00 devi ctr1 Inactive attached
89. hardware resources are wasted to sit there idle Command shipping and O shipping functions are implemented to support ALUA Asymmetric Logic Unit Assignment capability Fig 3 9 below shows the general concept of how ALUA is supported 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 38 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOS ay 21500 Revision 1 1 0 Cluster IP Datal O U400HA aor 7 4 Jul Witt amp Ww JT i YoYo i Owner ctrl1 Pool 2 Owner ctrl2 Sharel Share2 Fig 3 9 Active active mode and ALUA support Assume that the cluster IP in Fig 3 9 takes I O path in controller2 Clients can use this cluster IP to access both share1 and share2 at the same time To access share2 it is straight I O because ownership and I O path are the same controller2 However clients can access share1 as well When controller2 receives this command and finds that the owner is controller1 controller2 will ship this I O request to controller1 for processing Controller1 will access share1 get the requested data and send data back to controller2 through backplane Controller2 will return the data to the clients that issue the I O request to share1 Regarding ownership information please check Fig 2 4 about current owner attribute How to verify active active mode Use the following two simple ways to verify that both controllers can provide data services at the same time
90. he users to join the group The user list is displayed in either ascending or descending order Click Search button to search the user if the user list is very long Click Apply button to commit the changes 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 83 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Fig 5 4 below shows a full view of the group page You can edit and delete the account for management purpose Local accounts and domain accounts are displayed separately by selecting the drop down list 9c2 9 uUP Both local and domain accounts can co exist for share authentication Domain accounts information in the table is only for display purpose You cannot edit domain account or delete it User groups Group account Local group Total 5 Create G Search GID A Group name Description Administrator_Group User Group Marketing Marketing department G1 G2 Fig 5 4 Group account table UnifiedAUTH function UnifiedAUTH is Qsan patented function It means unified authentication which is to allow all data services provided in TrioNAS LX HA use the same set of accounts for authentication purpose UnifiedAUTH removes the troubles of using different accounts for different data services For example CIFS service uses Active Directory account NFS service uses local account iSCSI service uses CHAP account Without UnifiedAUTH a user needs to memorize three
91. hed SCSI Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology World Wide Name Host Bus Adapter Network Interface Card Battery Backup Module Data Service Terminology Item CIFS 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved Description Common Internet File System CIFS operates as an application 114 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsar Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 SMB NFS AFP FTP WebDAV Deduplication Thin Provisioning layer network protocol mainly used for providing shared access to files printers serial ports and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network Server Message Block Same as CIFS Network File System NFS is a distributed file system protocol originally allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a network in a manner similar to how local storage is accessed Apple Filing Protocol formerly AppleTalk Filing Protocol AFP is a proprietary network protocol that offers file services for Mac OS X and original Mac OS In Mac OS X AFP is one of several file services supported including Server Message Block SMB Network File System NFS File Transfer Protocol FTP and WebDAV AFP currently supports Unicode file names POSIX and access control list permissions resource forks named extended attributes and advanced file locking In Mac OS 9 and earlier AFP was the primary protocol for file services File Transfer Protocol FTP is
92. http www megatec com tw DEE Nv TIP R Connection with other vendors of UPS can work well but they have no such communication features with the system 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 46 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sear Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 TrioNAS LX HA supports network UPS via SNMP protocol Please connect the network cable to UPS and then set up the shutdown values When the power goes out UPS will function according to the setting Go to System setting gt Power management gt UPS The meaning of each item in Fig 3 19 is explained below UPS UPS type Smart UPS Serial port lWegatec UPS Smart UPS SNMP Fig 3 19 UPS setting Item name Description UPS type Select UPS Type e None No UPS or other vendors e Smart UPS Serial port APC Smart UPS with RS 232 e Megatec UPS Mega System Technologies Inc UPS e Smart UPS SNMP APC Smart UPS with network function IP address This option is only visible when SNMP UPS is selected The IP address of the network UPS Community This option is only visible when SNMP UPS is selected The SNMP community of the network UPS Shutdown battery When the battery level goes down and lower than the configured level threshold the system will auto shutdown This function will be disabled if the configured threshold is set to 0 Shutdown delay s When there is the power outage h
93. i Tat joi C Administrator _Group Gi G2 User_ Group Fig 4 3 CIFS access control ie If the NAS system already joined a domain use drop down list to select the domain you want to use can t find the one you want use the amp earch function to locate it If there are too many accounts and you Here you can set read write access rights of each account and group for this share Click Apply to commit the changes Manage shares Share 4 Create share folder Pool Volume RO RO 1 RO RO 2 R1 R1 1 R1 R 1 2 R5 R5 1 R5 R5 2 R6 R6 1 R6 R6 2 RO RO 5 R1 R1 5 R5 R5 5 R6 R6 5 Pool V1 thin 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved Go to Privilege setting gt Shared folders to manage your shares You will see a table like Fig 4 4 below The meaning of each item is explained below Path CIFS name Ro 1 Ro 2 Ri 1 R1 2 R5 1 R5 2 R6 1 R6 2 RO 5 R1 5 R5 5 R6 5 V1 thin Fig 4 4 Share table NFS name V41 thin Action DT A T D i D M A M AT D i D i D i AT A T A M D i 51 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sear Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Item name Description Pool Which pool this share belongs to Volume Which volume this share is Path The physical path in NAS system CIFS name Share name for CIFS service NFS name Share name for NFS service Action Available functions to this item are listed here B Edit the share settings 0
94. icates all options or arguments Indicates the default value Example a b All the features functionality and other product specifications are subject to change without prior notice or obligation Information contained herein is subject to change without notice 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sean Date 2015 08 04 Contents Chapter 0 PREFACE rasa esas cscs ewe E A 3 ABOUT TAIS MANUAL sciesecsrszicaierecia estecrpseveie a aamioe Ere EE a RE EE EE ENT NEE E E EE SAREE 3 TECHNICAL SUPPORT erare aE E E A E A E E asec aeaseeseccanten 3 MP AND CAUTO N G crre anna O E A 3 CONVENTION aerate r AEEA ANE E OEE EA E E EA S ence wee ceeench 4 BE Ge TNO TUE ranar e A A A E A A E A E A 4 Chapter 1 GETTING STARTED iririogrcineniseoincndnendaon neniani nea a EEA A ENARA Eiei 9 SUPPORTED OPERATING SY 5 UES wees rane NE E EEE E E E AE 9 SUPPORTED BROWSERS aarep nE EAEE cd EEEE EEEREN EE E NENE A OAE EEE 10 CONNECT TO TRIGNAS LXU4OQHA UGOOHA cessasiioracensaonteninicinaennasavanieeXessunabesdbnsmivensinaanrnnenia eiaeia iiaii 10 Jene GNOE arn EE E E E E E T 11 Se N e E E E E E E A E 12 NETWORK ENVIRONMENT 2c ccatcacccnicscencescasscanstanaaunstomniaactenemese aa a a iaaa arai 12 GETTING STARTED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME SETUP WIZARD xis canp oes caeecaeecqonetutcnomntesacennereeneesaercaenuiesemaceecesnesseeene 13 Chapter 2 STORAGE VIAN AG EIVIEIN Topco sskscccecsdatecesettcactcstecececu
95. ility Currently there is no load balance implementing on these redundant network paths Data service Cluster IP CIFS NFS file sharing services Private IP iSCSI web UI management Private IP addresses are those network settings in System setting gt Network gt General setting in the next section Below are some rules about cluster IP 1 Cluster IP and private IP of the same network interface can NOT be the same 2 Cluster IP consists of mirrored network interfaces from each controller 3 File sharing services CIFS NFS are provided through cluster IP Without cluster IP shares CAN NOT be accessed by users 4 Cluster IP can work even the private IP address of the network interface is unavailable 5 Cluster IP doesn t provide web Ul management service Private IP does 6 Which redundant path will carry data is determined dynamically by the NAS operating system Go to High availability setting gt Cluster IP setting and click Create Fig 3 5 below shows the cluster IP page The meaning of each item will be explained below Cluster IP setting Cluster IP setting Select the network interfaces that you would like to cluster together Name eustea s lt sS NIC Management port LAN1 LAN LAN3 C LAN4 LANS LANG Address 9214681122 Mask 255 255 255 0 x Back _Apply _Reset Fig 3 5 Create cluster IP Item name Description Name Put in a name for the cluster IP N
96. ime and date 2015 6 25 12 46 18 UTC 08 00 Admin password 6 Default password 1234 Network interface Management port IP address 192 168 8 135 16 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 13 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Qsan E NES Revision 1 1 0 Cluster IP setup Cluster IP addresses are used by file sharing services such as CIFS and MFS Cluster IPs are independent from the IP addresses private IPs in Network Setting UI Name clusterip Network interface Management port IP address 192 168 8 101 16 Storage setup Configuration Create storage pool later Disk 9 Disk 13 Disk 2 Disk 10 Disk 14 Disk 3 Disk 11 Disk 15 Disk 4 Disk 12 Disk 16 After each item is configured click Apply to commit the changes and you can access the NAS through cluster IP now 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 14 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual cOsan ee Revision 1 1 0 Storage management This chapter describes how to configure storage pool volumes and LUN Storage efficiency functions such as thin provisioning and compression are explained as well It contains the following sections e Physical disks Storage pools Instant ready amp fast rebuild e Volumes e LUNS e Thin provisioning e Compression Physical disks In this web UI page all hard drive related information is displayed here Please be aware th
97. ination folder folders 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 101 eQsan Test connection Revision 1 1 0 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Date 2015 08 04 Verify if the connection with Amazon S3 can be established Amazon 5 task gt Create Task name wo St sts Local path RO ddd S53 setting Backup type Access key AKIAJHCSILJP7I4VHNSPOQ Private key TIT IIIT IIT iii iitiiiiiiiiiiiiti tity Bucket Folder kevini23 Cid nn LJ Delete extra files in destination folder Test connection B Note Amazon 3 requires all machines making requests be within 15 minutes of an Amazon 53 webserver s clock Setting up your machines to sync their times with an NTP server a Fig 6 10 Create an Amazon S3 task Apply Click Apply to create a new task The task table looks like Fig 6 11 below The meaning of each item in Fig 6 11 is described below Amazon 3 task Create Task name Type Pool Volume Folder 3 bucket 533 folder Status Progress Schedule Created time Action Si Upload ri elf keviniz3 Inactive Inactive 2015 03 20 17 12 20 cy Fa iI dwg Upload ro ddd kevini23 Inactive Inactive 2015 03 20 17 21 07 CD F iI Fig 6 11 Amazon S3 task table Item name Description Status The same definition as replication Standby Running Inactive Disconnected Progress Schedule The periodic duration setting Disabled there is no periodic duration setting Action Available
98. ion and then dick Devices Session Information Target portal group tag Status Connection count 1 Maximum Allowed Connections 8 Authentication None Specified Header Digest None Spedfied Data Digest None Specified Configure Multiple Connected Session MCS To add additional connections to a session or configure the MCS policy for a selected session dick MCS Fig 4 31 iSCSI connection properties sighted Paths This session has the following connections Source Portal Target Portal 192 168 11 87 192 155 11 12 Status Type Connected Active To add a connection dick Add To remove a connection select the connection above and then dick Remove To edit the path settings for the MCS policy select a connection above and then click Edit 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved Select iSCSI target node O and click Property button In Fig 4 31 on the left Add session button is where to add extra path to construct MPIO connection Click MCS button at the bottom of Fig 4 31 to start constructing MC S connections From MCS drop down list select the policy that fits your requirement Click Add button to add more connections to the session Click Advanced and it pops up the same dialog box as we did in the previous MPIO section 72 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Select
99. iption Action 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved Schedule type Description Action Scheduled Every 1 hour s fil Scheduled Every 1 hour s fil Scheduled Every 1 hour s fil Scheduled Every 1 hour s fil Scheduled Every 1 hour s fil Scheduled Every 1 hour s fil Scheduled Every 1 hour s fil Scheduled Every 1 hour s fil Fig 6 5 Snapshot task table Description The name of the volume or LUN that snapshot is taken upon Syntax is A B where A stands for pool name and B stands for volume name or LUN name Disabled The task is stopped Scheduled The task is running normally A brief description of periodic duration Available functions to the snapshot J Edit the task You may change the periodic duration setting Delete the task 95 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsan ee Revision 1 1 0 Snapshot is really a very useful and efficient tool to lay a minimum safety net to protect your data Taking snapshots will NOT cause system performance to drop or take up too many resources It s a brilliant way to protect the data 277 TIP R If there is not enough space in the storage pool the system will stop taking snapshot and issue warning event logs Replication management The most common way to data protection is to create duplication of data Making local duplicated data is local cloning Making duplicated data at remote site is remote replication TrioNAS LX HA supports both R
100. is much faster than that of controller failover There is no web UI setting for this function It is built in by design in QSM operating system Network setting This web page is where you adjust the management port setting and all private IP settings General setting Fig 3 11 below shows the general settings for LAN All these IP addresses are private IP The meaning of each item is explained below 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 40 Qsan General setting LAN setting Revision 1 1 0 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Date 2015 08 04 This network setting is for private IP addresses Private IP addresses are used by iSCSI service and web UI management The link aggregation setting of one controller will mirror to the other controller automatically Changing link aggregation will affect cluster IP settings as well Show information fo Create link aggre Controller 1 Name Link Status LAG LAG No VLAN ID Protocol IPv4 type IPv4 IP Jumbo frame MAC address LAN 1 Gbps Round Rabin IPv4 DHCP 192 168 8 37 16 1500 00 13 73 B9 A8 31 LAN 1 Gbps No 0 IPva Static 192 168 11 123 16 1500 00 13 78 B9 A8 32 LAN3 1 Gbps Round Rabin 3 IPv4 DHCP 192 168 3 84 16 1500 00 13 73 B9 A8 33 LAN4 1 Gbps Round Rabin 3 IPv4 DHCP 192 168 3 84 16 1500 00 13 78 B9 A8 33 LANS 1 Gbps No 0 IPv4 Static 192 168 12 126 16 1500 00 13 78 B9 A8 35 LANG 1Gbps Round Rabin IPv4 DHCP 192 168 3
101. is taken The snapshot name It has the following syntax A B snapshot name date time A Pool name B Volume name or LUN name Snapshot name It s the name you enter when creating a snapshot AUTO means it s a scheduled snapshot Date time The date and time the snapshot was taken The amount of snapshot space that has been used The refer capacity of the volume or LUN The time the snapshot is created Available functions to the snapshot ap Clone snapshot Use this function to make a duplicated volume or LUN at that point in time The physical space will be allocated from the storage pool s Rollback snapshot Use the snapshot to roll back the content of volume or LUN to that point in time when the snapshot was taken Please be aware that when you roll back a snapshot at Ta all snapshots Tn 1 Tn 2 Tn 3 Tiatest after T will be deleted because data reference point is different and it makes snapshots Tn 1 Tr 2 Tn 3 Tatest obsolete J Delete the snapshot To clone a snapshot there will be a new volume or LUN listed in the volume page or LUN page For example let s clone a snapshot R5 R5 1 AUTO 20150609 2300 and Fig 6 2 below will pop up Put in a name for the cloned volume or LUN and click Apply TIP Snapshot uses copy on write technology to record differential data at block level between two points in time The size of snapshot will take up storage pool space the same storage pool of the volume or L
102. itle TriNAS LX HA software manual Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Method 1 The address input in Explorer Open a Windows Explorer from Start button or by pressing Start key E In the address input put in the share path and press Enter Please refer to the screenshot below Ey Commuter E o x We 192 168 8 180 SQL_DB2 al Search Computer 2 Organize System properties Uninstall or change a program Map network drive Open Control Panel a fi e gt Documents E iard Disk Drives 3 a Music 5 Pictures WIN7_32 C amp videos iy 19 6 GB free of 39 0 GB Administrator BUFFER D iA Computer amp WIN7_32 C l_a 14 9 GB free of 29 2 GB BUFFER D a ai STORAGE E gt STORAGE E E lt amp DVD RW Drive F L_a 205 GB free of 229 GB oe CD Drive H a Devices with Removable Storage 3 5 gt SanDisk I shared astra K a DVD RW Drive F others astra L Automation 192 168 10 6 M gi g ROBERT NOTEBOOK Workgroup WORKGROUP Memory 4 00 GB A Processor Intel R Core TM 2 Duo C 12 items h Windows will pop up a dialog requesting for account and password Please put in your account and password When the authentication is clear the share is ready for you to use as follows io x G J gt Network 192 168 8 180 sql_db2 Search sql_db2 g Fie Edit View Tools Help Organize y New folder v i e 43 DVD RW Driv
103. ity is WINS server first and then DNS The same as above 55 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsar Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Click Apply to commit the changes NFS service NFS stands for Network File System NFS is a network protocol for sharing files and directories over Ethernet among Linux computers and Unix computers NFS version 3 and version 4 are supported in TrioNAS LX HA To use CIFS service please make sure the service is enabled and running normally You can check NFS service status in Dashboard as of Fig 4 9 Go to Privilege setting gt File services gt NFS After enabling NFS service the following TCP and UDP ports will be enabled as well e TCP 111 rpcbind e TCP 2049 nfsd e UDP 111 rpcbind e Additionally mountd and rpcbind will each bind to a randomly available UDP port The meaning of each item is described below NFS NFS file service NFS service Enable Disable Fig 4 11 NFS service Item name Description NFS service Enable or Disable the service NFSv4 domain If you are using NFSv4 protocol please make sure NFSv4 domain is provided in order to have ID mapping function working correctly Click Apply to commit the changes iSCSI service iSCSI target service is supported in TrioNAS LX HA iSCSI protocol encapsulates SCSI commands directly into TCP IP network packets so it provides block based storage space Currently iSC
104. ize button After firmware synchronization the slave controller will reboot and the system will return to normal status Import Export Configuration file contains the setting information from System setting gt High availability setting System setting gt General setting gt System System setting gt General setting gt Time System setting gt Network All Storage management gt iSCSI gt General setting Privilege setting gt Accounts gt Directory service You may use the Import function to restore the original system settings Reset to factory default Basically this function will reset all the values in system configuration file previous section to factory defaults Please be aware that executing this function will come with an automatic reboot The following items will be performed e System settings previous section will be reset e Administrator password will be reset to 1234 e Clear all access rights settings for shares e Clear all snapshot replication and backup tasks e Clear all user group accounts by option 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 109 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sean Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Please be aware that Reset to factory defaults will not delete the user data in UserHome file system If you create a local user account with the same name the system will see it as the same user and use the original user account folde
105. laca al Yes Yes 1 362144 5 ee a 192 168 11 55 P ee Yes Yes P 3544 A a p ane ae e e Yes Yes 1 262144 B ha e 192 168 1277 h eee Yes Yes 1 4624144 9 a ns ae 492 168 12 77 char rama aaa Yes yes 1 367144 10 m ee eg Se e Yes Yes 1 262144 See fell aad ieee eS Yes Yes 1 262144 12 ha aaa Pie E a Yes Yes 1 262144 Fig 7 3 Connections of iSCSI service Item Description No Ascending order Initiator name IQN name of the host computer that runs iSCSI initiator Initiator IP IP address of iSCSI initiator Target name iSCSI target IQN name of TrioNAS LX HA InitialR2T InitialR2T Initial Ready to Transfer is used to turn off either the use of a unidirectional R2T command or the output part of a bidirectional command The default value is Yes Immed Data Immed data Immediate Data sets the support for immediate data between the initiator and the target Both must be set to the same setting The default value is Yes MaxOutR2T MaxDataOutR2T Maximum Data Outstanding Ready to Transfer determines the maximum number of outstanding ready to transfer per task The default value is 1 MaxDataBurstLen MaxDataBurstLen Maximum Data Burst Length determines the maximum SCSI data payload The default value is 256kb Through this table it gives you a big picture of iSCSI service usage on TrioNAS LX HA 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 107 eQOsan Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 System informa
106. n Unknown Free disk No SEAGATE Z1W2BBLK0000C4484VVG SAS 6 0 Gbit Enabled A Be Online Unknown Unknown Freedisk No SEAGATE Z1W2BBRCO000C4484AEX SAS 6 0 Gbit Enabled i Be Online Unknown Unknown Freedisk No SEAGATE 2Z1W2B5K60000C44879C8 SAS 6 0 Gbit Enabled i Be Online Unknown Unknown Freedisk No SEAGATE Z1W2BCN50000C4483HJN SAS 6 0 Gbit Enabled i Fe Online Unknown Unknown Freedisk No SEAGATE Z1W2BC0P0000C44820YH SAS 6 0 Gbit Enabled i Fe Online Unknown Unknown Freedisk No SEAGATE Z1W2BC3F0000C44845XK SAS 6 0 Gbit Enabled i P s Online Unknown Unknown Freedisk No SEAGATE Z1W2BBSZ0000C4484AMJ SAS 6 0 Gbit Enabled i Be Online Unknown Unknown Freedisk No SEAGATE Z1W2BBN30000C4484AGY SAS 6 0 Gbit Enabled i Fe Online Good Unknown RAID disk No TOSHIBA 35H4K02WFTMB SATA 6 0 Gbit Enabled i g n e Online Good Unknown RAID disk No TOSHIBA 35H4K032F TMB SATA 6 0 Gbit Enabled i g n e Online Good Unknown RAID disk No HGST NCGORAML SATA 6 0 Gbit Enabled i g i e Online Good Unknown RAIDdisk No HGST NCGOKX2L SATA6 0 Gbit Enabled i g n e Online Good No error RAID disk No HGST NCGORGWL SATA 6 0 Gbit Enabled i nIe Description HDD slot number on the chassis Capacity of hard drive This drive belongs to which storage pool The status of the hard drive Online The hard drive is online Rebuilding The hard drive is being rebuilt Degraded One of the RAID set is at degraded mode Failed One of the RAID set is at failed mode Importing The system is lo
107. node 0 with bandwidth of 2Gb s When accessing those two LUNs the speed will be faster compared to that in the previous section To verify if MPIO is in action select iSCSI target node O and click Properties button There are two paths shown in Fig 4 28 below 4000013 700000008 L_ ffffe000009d1290 4000013700000009 To add a session dick Add session Fig 4 28 Multiple session paths 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 69 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Set up MPIO with two controllers This is how to use high availability function of dual active active controller mode We will set up one path from each controller To see the iSCSI target nodes from controller 2 put in the IP address of controller 2 to discover the iSCSI target nodes As Fig 4 29 shown iSCSI target nodes Targets Discovery Favorite Targets Volumes and Devices RADIUS Configuration from controller 2 are displayed as well Quick Connect To discover and log on to a target using a basic connection type the IP address or DNS name of the target and then cick Quick Connect Let s construct two paths to both i controllers to the same iSCSI target Target Quick Connect node 63 Discovered targets Path1 to ctr1 3 2004 08 com asantechnology u400ha 424 000901a00 dev0 ctrl Inactive server s1 11 87 to LAN2 ctr1 11 123 Path2 to ctr1
108. nt slave becomes active if and only if the active slave fails The single logical bonded interface s MAC address is externally visible on only one NIC port to avoid distortion in the network switch This mode provides fault tolerance Trunking Transmit network packets based on source MAC address XOR d with destination MAC address modulo NIC slave count This selects the same NIC slave for each destination MAC address This mode provides load balancing and fault tolerance 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 43 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Ssa Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Broadcast Transmit network packets on all slave network interfaces This mode provides fault tolerance LACP IEEE 802 3ad Dynamic link aggregation 802 3ad Creates aggregation groups that share the same speed and duplex settings Utilizes all slave network interfaces in the active aggregator group according to the 802 3ad specification Transmit Load Balancing The bonding driver mode that does not require any special network switch support The outgoing network packet traffic is distributed according to the current load computed relative to the speed on each network interface slave Incoming traffic is received by one currently designated slave network interface If this receiving slave fails another slave takes over the MAC address of the failed receiving slave Adaptive Load Balancing It includes transmit load
109. ntrollers will have the same Setting For example Select 7 It means the LUN is attached to iSCSI target node 7 of both controllers Permission Access rights are Read only and Read Write Click Apply to commit the settings Fig 4 14 below shows the LUN mapping table The meaning of each item in Fig 4 14 is explained below LUN Attach select vol All w Total 7 Target Permission LUN Action Read Write Pool1 12 0 Read Write Poolt L1 thin 1 Read Write Ri R1 3 1 Read Write R1 R1 4 63 Read Write R amp RG 66 63 Read Write R6 R6 77 63 Read Write R amp RG 38 Fig 4 14 LUN mapping table Item name Description Target iSCSI target node number 063 Permission Access rights LUN LUN name and storage pool name Action Available functions are listed here Detach LUN to remove the LUN from the iSCSI target node CIFS and Windows There are several ways to access a network share in Microsoft Windows operating systems It all follows Windows UNC Universal Naming Convention format Syntax lt NAS system name gt lt share name gt lt Cluster IP address gt lt share name gt lt NAS system name gt can be found from System setting gt General setting gt System lt Cluster IP address gt is the cluster IP address that you created from System setting gt High availability setting gt Cluster IP setting 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 59 Qsan Qsan document t
110. ocess will take a few minutes if there are over thousands of accounts Please be patient Go to user account page and select domain user Different content will be displayed Fig 5 9 below shows the LDAP domain users 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 88 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sea Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 User account Domain user Total 6819 G Create Search User name Group Quota GB Used aaa aaaexit ccc ddd felt kevin keviniscsi kkk_11 idaplewis lewis nobody gaz qqa qwer root senti test01 test010 test0100 test0101 4 1 gt Pi 1 341 page s Fig 5 9 LDAP user accounts Please be aware that the domain name will not be displayed in Fig 5 9 This is different from Active Directory service And LDAP accounts can not be used in iSCSI CHAP authentication It s because LDAP protocol doesn t support CHAP password encryption One thing to note is that after joining LDAP domain the local accounts will become unavailable for file sharing authentication A simple table below summarizes the differences pT bocal accounts LDAP domain accounts File sharing access NO Yes iSCSI CHAP Yes po NO Vd V TIP R Please contact your LDAP server administrator for the correct login parameters for Base DN Admin DN User base DN and Group base DN Import Export account If there are several TrioNAS TrioNAS LX TrioNAS LX HA systems in
111. ol These settings will go into the configuration file etc exports on TrioNAS LX HA Use these checkboxes and radios to come out the NFS rules you want Create one rule each time by clicking Create button Please be aware that you are responsible for the rules you just created TrioNAS LX HA will not validate the correctness of the rules There are examples and explanations on the web page to help you create the rules Or you may refer to the explanations below 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 49 Qsan Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 NFS access control rules Root squash Uncheck this to use no_root_squash setting Async write Check this to use asynchronous write function The performance will be better than synchronous write Read only and Read Write Set the read write permission IPv4 Allow a group of computers that are in a certain IP range to access the share o The number 1 31 in the drop down list represent the network mask value It stands for the total number of binary 1 in the network mask For example a network mask of 255 255 0 0 in binary form will become 11111111 11111111 0 0 So number 16 will stand for a network mask of 255 255 0 0 Simply provide a valid IP address within your destination range o Pv6 Same meaning as IPv4 above Instead it accepts IPv6 address only Hostname Use this option to specify a specific computer for
112. one task No task Original It shows the original LUN of the snapshot clone This is not a LUN clone Action The available functions to this LUN are listed here ff Edit This allows you change some attributes of this LUN Items that are allowed to change can be done on the fly during data access i Delete Delete the LUN The size of the LUN can be increased if more space is needed by using Edit function Like volume settings decreasing the LUN size is not allowed in order to protect user data from deletion Thin provisioning Thin provisioning is sometimes known as just in time capacity or over allocation It provides storage space by requests and dynamically allocates space to store user data Below are the benefits and characteristics of thin provisioning e Applied to both Volumes and LUNs e Remove stranded or reserved but unused capacity Improve storage efficiency e It can be turned ON OFF on the fly during I O using Edit function 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 28 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sean Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Decrease Volume size It is not allowed to decrease the size of a Volume or a LUN using Edit function But there is a workaround to this Because thin provisioning setting can be turned on off on the fly turn on the thin provisioning setting of the Volume first The quota GB will become None Then use Edit function again
113. r Reboot and shutdown During rebooting the data services remain online Both controllers take turn to reboot to maintain the maximum system uptime Because of this the overall reboot process will take 10 15 minutes Shutdown is to turn off the power to the system After executing shutdown the system will stop all running tasks and flush the memory cache data to the hard drives before turning off the power When the power is off please remember to turn the power switch on the back of the system to OFF status 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 110 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsan ee Revision 1 1 0 Advanced operations This chapter introduces how to use console commands for debugging and system maintenance Topics covered include the following e Snapshot management e Replication management e Cloud backup Serial console connection On the controller bracket there is a phone jack connector for serial console management as in Fig 8 1 below Fig 8 1 Console port on controller bracket Use console cable NULL modem cable to connect from console port of the storage system to RS 232 port of the management PC Use the the following settings for the serial console connection Baud rate 115200 8 data bit no parity 1 stop bit and no flow control Terminal type vt100 The initial defaults for administrator login are User name admin Password 1234 Secure shell remot
114. r accounts and group accounts Directory services such as Active Directory and LDAP will be explained as well We will explain why UnifiedAUTH is so helpful and important to enterprise users Sections included in this chapter are Local account management UnifiedAUTH built in service e Active Directory management LDAP management Local account management Local user account Local account means the users and groups that are valid in and belong to this individual TrioNAS LX HA system The default accounts are admin and guest For IT managers please always use admin account to configure Qsan NAS systems Go to Privilege setting gt Accounts gt User to start creating user accounts The meaning of each item in Fig 5 1 is described below Users User account gt Create PR Note For iSCSI CHAP Authentication The password length must be a minimum of 12 characters and a maximum of 16 characters Retype password eecccccscces UID 1000 Email u1 email com Description this is description Group Group name Selected group s Sort Search Sort A q 2 Administrator_Group User_Group Fig 5 1 Create local user account 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 81 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sear Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Item name Name Password Retype password UID Email Quota Description Group Description
115. riodic duration setting Disabled there is no periodic duration setting The time the task is created The last time the task was executed Success The task completes successfully Fail The task failed Terminated The task was aborted by stop function Available functions to the replication task Start the task When there is no schedule setting this function is enabled m Stop the task When there is no schedule setting this function is enabled Set periodic duration just like the snapshot Edit the replication task from Step 2 lJ Delete the task Some rules to note e Attributes snapshots thin provisioning deduplication compression number of copies of the source volume or LUN will be replicated as well If the source volume or LUN is deleted the associated replication task s will be deleted automatically and a warning event log will be issued e When replication task is running and the network connection is broken cable plug out network switch failure target IP change the task will fail and return to Standby status e When replication task is running and the owner controller fails or is plugged out the task will fail and abort The other controller will take over the task as the next trigger point arrives e If you remove the hard drives of the source volume or LUN after shutdown the next time you power on the machine and the replication task will become Inactive e There is no access limit to
116. robin 0 prio 1 status active 12 0 0 0 sdb 8 16 active ready running policy round robin 0 prio 1 status enabled 13 0 0 0 sdc 8 32 active ready running 1 Edit the etc multipath conf again vi etc multipath conf multipaths multipath wwid 32033001378901d00 alias path_grouping_policy multibus path_checker direction This line may cause multipath be invalid in different device path_selector round robin 0 failback manual rr_weight priorities no_path_retry 5 2 Save the configuration file and confirm that the persistent name to iSCSI device has been created multipath lIl qsan 32033001378901d00 dm 3 Qsan p600 d316 size 500g feature 1 queue_if_no_path hwhandler 0 wp ro policy round robin 0 prio 1 status active 12 0 0 0 sdb 8 16 active ready running 13 0 0 0 sdc 8 32 active ready running Is I dev mapper total O crw rw 1 root root 10 58 jul 28 18 34 control Irwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 jul 28 18 34 gt dm 3 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 79 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsar Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Irwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 jul 28 18 34 VolGroup00 lv_home gt dm 2 Irwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 jul 28 18 34 VolGroup00 lv_root gt dm 0 Irwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 jul 28 18 34 VolGroup00 lv_swap gt dm 1 Ny TIP Usually it uses the command multipath to manage th
117. ry DAY TIP The size of the storage pool can be expanded by ay adding more RAID groups but it can NOT be shrunk by removing RAID groups Instant ready amp fast rebuild SSD caching The beauty of ZFS file system is that no RAID initialization and formatting is needed unlike EXT3 and EXT4 file systems found in most NAS systems Once the storage pool is created and ready you may create volumes turn volumes into shares and start copying files right away without wasting time for RAID initialization and formatting You may create LUNs and start using iSCSI LUNs in the same way too When RAID rebuilding is needed for replacing a new hard drive rebuilding time is proportional to the size of the existing data stored on the RAID disks For example you use five 3TB hard drives to make a RAIDS storage pool The size of overall data stored in this RAIDS is 200MB If you rebuild one drive in this RAIDS storage pool it will probably take tens of seconds to complete rebuilding instead of hours These wonderful functions make using TrioNAS LX HA tremendously easy and efficient TrioNAS LX HA supports SSD caching to leverage the benefits of SSD drives to boost random IOPS performance This also makes TrioNAS LX HA a hybrid storage to combine SATA drives and SSD caching function to get a net performance results of a pure SAS storage pool SSD caching function is applied to the storage pool only All volumes and LUNs in the same storage pool can
118. scccssseccsscsceessesseesesees 91 SNAPSHOT MANAGEMENT cnazcccdarecstotancacieelometatandemncastionndeaas Seen dee deneenseusnensaelanecasatdannaetomenctandenncan E ACOA 91 Scheduled snapshot a cipearasateecans aepeavn caaeacsauecesameacsenvacueeaeundvacqeusacececartuneactacveroonaaensnetsesaerneessesnnaeesaens 94 REPU ATION IIA NAGE ENT aes cer cxccecteeenes A A EA E 96 REIMOES PEON Ga CON acyanavaecspuesemctunaysanngesdawsneccun ac onatawasaatecasianenewtaneuhecvanaiunn E A E O 97 Local clone anae E E O E A A E aueaven 100 CLOUD BACKUP AMAZON SS orsina ei nsi niyer E Aaaa EEEa E EGS see ENE EN E e 101 PANT IVIR OS FUNCTION aranne a a A E E E E E aa 103 SYSTEM MAINTENANCE AND MONITORING cccsssscccsssscccssssccccsssccccsssccccsssccccesscscoessesseessesenesesees 105 DAS HBOAR recrimina E a E 105 Onine COTS SOS seriea tac eE E E 106 BO TE INE ORATION iragana A REEE EEA N A OE EA E EE 108 FIRMWARE UPGRADE AND SYNCHRONIZATION ss cccuossvnnnsncteasvnnteinaessmaindnsdanetiemesiteatsndsaettieedssuandeadensivensdmassesenntWnecsumbens 108 ORT EPO T aa E E 109 RESET TOFACTORY DEFAULT orison E E cae uses E E neat aces anngacscemeneesncaeneess 109 REBOOT AND SHUTDOWN scdsacctscdatanassctanoutpcanadetnaatanetieasnncceastacelunetanoatecgueasbactebagae sei aeectineibanauecasaeseacabesateectaestavnnes 110 ADVANCED OPERATIONS sspiecsccesccccen cance suse ccwensececsesiccousandecawansocdaiueersesnweveseieonsansesaiuensc ue necousalesanieeees 111 SERIAL CONSOLE CONNE
119. se fixed IP of management port please make sure there is DHCP server on the network Connect LAN1 LAN6 to the network switch Run Qfinder and TrioNAS LX will be listed in Qfinder Double click on the selected row and it will automatically connect TrioNAS LX using your default browser Fig 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 11 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 2 QFinder ojx FE Rescan About Exit IP Address NIC System Name Model Name Firmware Ver MAC Address a 192 168 105 66 Mgmt P400Q D316 B741A0 P400Q D316 3 5 0 00 13 78 B7 41 A0 a 192 168 200 11 Mgmt U600Q 900D80 U600Q 1 3 1 00 13 78 B7 42 FO 192 168 170 221 Mgmt U400HA B74570 U400HA 1 0 0 00 13 78 B7 45 70 192 168 206 11 LAN1 U400HA B74570 U400HA 1 0 0 00 13 78 B7 45 71 192 168 205 11 LAN2 U400HA B74570 U400HA 1 0 0 00 13 78 B7 45 72 192 168 204 11 LAN3 U400HA B74570 U400HA 1 0 0 00 13 78 B7 45 73 192 168 203 11 LAN4 U400HA B74570 U400HA 1 0 0 00 13 78 B7 45 74 192 168 202 11 LAN5 U400HA B74570 U400HA 1 0 0 00 13 78 B7 45 75 192 168 201 11 LANG U400HA B74570 U400HA 1 0 0 00 13 78 B7 45 76 192 168 202 22 LAN5 U400HA B74570 U400HA 1 0 0 00 13 78 B7 45 7D 192 168 201 22 LANG U400HA B74570 U400HA 1 0 0 00 13 78 B7 45 7E 192 168 114 52 Mgmt P600Q BB SAN P600Q D316 3 6 0 00 13 78 B7 45 90 192 168 123 40 Mgmt P400Q D316 B74970 P400Q D316 3 6 0 00 13 78 B7 49 70 192 168 155 155 Mgmt F600Q B
120. sed as shares The size of the volume can be increased if more space is needed by using Edit function However decreasing the volume size is not allowed to protect user data from deletion Please check Thin provisioning section for decreasing Volume size 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 25 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Ssa Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 LUNs LUN means Logic Unit Number which is a block device addressed by SCSI protocol or SAN protocols such as Fibre Channel and iSCSI In this section we will explain how to create storage space as a block device Go to Storage Management gt iSCSI gt LUNs Click Create The meaning of each item in Fig 2 8 will be described below LUNs LUNs gt Create Name Pool Property Compression Number of data copies Block size Size Thin provisioning Disable Zero reclaim Generic zero reclaim Enable One O Two Three BAK W Fig 2 8 Create LUNs Column Name Name Pool Description LUN name Use the drop down list to select the pool you want to use Property Compression Thin provisioning Use the check box to enable it Deduplication This will be provided in the near future Lossless compression function provides advanced storage Sync efficiency function Disabled No compression at all Default value Zero Reclaim When the data block contains
121. size Size The Sync option will be grey out in LUNs page This is because synchronous write function is not supported in iSCSI block access for the time being Number of data copies is used to create mirroring of data to avoid data corruption When the original file corrupts the NAS system will use the extra copy to recover the corrupt file The value of two means that when you copy a 10MB file it will take up 20MB space The value of three means that it will take up extra double space to store the same data in the same storage pool Users will not be able to see the actual extra copies They are controlled by ZFS file system Block size of ZFS file system If your application has a particular I O access pattern adjust this block size to match your application to gain the maximum performance The allocated capacity of the volume In Volume this size means Quota as well as Reserved space Put in a size you want for the volume In Fig2 6 it is grey out because thin provisioning is checked When thin provisioning is enabled the size of the volume equals to the size of the pool s remaining capacity After filling in everything click Apply to create a new volume The volume table will display all volumes the NAS system currently has The meaning of each column is explained below Volumes Create Jf Delete Name V1 thin RO 1 RO 2 RO0 5 R1 1 R1 2 R1 5 R5 1 R5 2 R5 5 R6 1
122. sk No SEAGATE SAS 6 0 Gbit 12 931 Online Unknown Free disk No SEAGATE SAS 6 0 Gbit Back _Next Fig 2 3 Create a new pool Reset Use the checkboxes to select the required disks to make up the RAID group Click Next to proceed If settings are all correct Click Apply to submit the request Go back to Storage Management gt Pools gt General setting The newly created pool Pool1 is listed in the table Fig 204 below shows the pool table content The meaning of each column is explained below 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 19 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sear Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Pool 4 Create Total Used Free a Current Preferred Spare Ren Write T Name GB GB GB Capacity Status ene ae Home RAID set disk ary EERS Action Pool 2733 36 0 273336 0 Online Controler2 Controller2 No focal 4 23 6 1 RO 10962 9001 47 1960 52 12 Online Controller 1 Controler No Morak 43 44 2 ET R1 5481 4000 44 1480 55 12 Online Controller2 Controler No fral 15 16 2 ET R5 14601 72 11000 88 3600 84 6 Online Controller 1 Controller1 No Aaral 222324 6 1 R6 1061943 8800 88 181854 8 Online Controller2 Controller2 No f oral 1749 19 20 2 ET Fig 2 4 Pool table Column Name Description Name Pool name Total GB Total capacity of this pool Used GB Used capacity of this pool Free GB Free capacity of this pool Capacity Used percentage Ded
123. ss control at IP address level To enable IP filtering function go to Security gt IP filter gt IP filter setting Select Enable and click Apply 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 45 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Ssa Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 IP filter setting IP filter setting Status Enable X Disable aT To create filtering rules go to Security gt IP filter gt IP filter rules Click Create to create a new rule The meaning of each item in Fig 3 18 is explained below IP filter rule gt Create Filter policy Allow Deny Source IP range Destination port range Protocol ss a ao Fig 3 18 Add a IP filtering rule Item name Description Filter policy Allow IP address falling in the range criteria is allowed for connection Deny IP address falling in the range criteria is denied for connection Source IP range Enter the starting IP address and ending IP address Destination port Enter the port range 1 to 65535 range Protocol Select the network protocol for screening Simple management functions are provided from the table you can use to edit the rule or use Ill to delete the rule Power management UPS TrioNAS LX HA supports and communicates with Smart UPS series through network function by APC American Power Conversion Corp http www apc com and Megatec UPS Mega System Technologies Inc
124. stered trademarks of their respective companies Information is subject to change without notice 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 2 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsan ee Revision 1 1 0 Preface About This Manual This manual is the introduction of Qsan unified storage system and it aims to help users know the operations of the disk array system easily Information contained in this manual has been reviewed for accuracy but not for product warranty because of the various environments OS settings Information and specification will be changed without further notice For any update information please visit www QsanTechnology com and your contact windows Before reading this manual it assumes that you are familiar with computer skills such as hardware storage concepts and network technology It also assumes you have basic knowledge of Redundant Array of Independent Disks RAID Storage Area Network SAN Network Attached Storage NAS Internet SCSI iSCSI Serial attached SCSI SAS Serial ATA SATA technology CAUTION Do not attempt to service change disassemble or upgrade the equipment s components by yourself Doing so may violate your warranty and expose you to electric shock Refer all servicing to authorized service personnel Please always follow the instructions in this user s manual Technical Support Thank you for using Qsan Technology Inc products if you have
125. the company and all of them need to share the same local user accounts and group accounts Creating each account one by one and machine by machine is really time consuming Using import export function can facilitate this process Go to Privilege setting gt Accounts gt Import Export Use Export function to save local user and group accounts in an ASCII text file Each row represents an 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 89 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Ssa Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 account The password is encrypted Each account attribute is separated by a delimiter a colon If there is no attribute value it will be left as empty The syntax goes like this lt account name gt lt encrypted password gt lt quota gt lt UID gt lt email gt lt description gt You may also create the text file following this format as an import file If for some reason the syntax is incorrect or rules are not followed such as forbidden characters are used the importing process will stop at the problematic account and will not proceed further Group account follows the same logic as user account described above Account specification This section summarizes the maximum number specifications that relate to user and group accounts for TrioNAS LX HA Both U400HA and U600HA have the following specifications 10000 Maximum local groups 1024 65535 Maximum domain groups 6
126. the replicated volume or LUN on the target system If the replicated volume or LUN is used by other purposes the data will be INCONSISTENT We strongly suggest not doing this After the task is carried out successfully you will see the replicated volume or LUN on the target NAS system The replication task takes longer time to complete for the very first time because it s a full copy The subsequent replication will be faster because it s differential copy by copying the snapshot only The benefits are 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 99 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 if the replication task fails the previous version is still intact and you inherit all the advantages of snapshot CAUTION Please reserve the replicated volume and LUN on the target system for replication purpose only Do not modify the content of the replicated volume or LUN if there are more replications to come in the future Otherwise it will cause data inconsistency in the replicated volume and LUN Local clone Data redundancy will be created without generating network traffics Go to Applications gt Backup gt Replications and click Create to start a new task Enter the name of the task and select the volume or LUN you want to duplicate Replica task gt Step 1 Select source Task name lreplica clone x Name Type Used GB Free GB RO RO 1 Volume 0 2000 O R
127. the required connection Connect using you want to establish Local adapter Microsoft SCSI Initiator l 1 Ml ern ESE Click Ok and click Connect Target portal IF Default In Fig 4 32 below you will see 192 168 11 121 f 3260 F CRC Checksum 192 168 12 122 3260 added connection to this session l 192 168 11 123 3260 Data digest 192 168 12 124 3260 Enable CHAP log on CHAP Log on information MES policy Round Robin wt Destini The round robin policy attempts to evenly distribute incoming requests to all processing paths Fig 4 32 on the left shows that there are 3 connections established Click Ok to complete creating MC S connection This session has the following connections Source Portal Target Portal 192 168 11 87 4803 192 168 11 123 3250 192 168 11 87 65219 197 168 11 125 3260 192 168 12 86 9653 192 168 12 126 3250 To add a connection dick Add Fig 4 32 MC S connections Disconnect iSCSI target Disconnecting iSCSI connection is easy Simply select the iSCSI target node and click Disconnect button 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 73 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsan Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 iSCSI and Linux iSCSI initiator Installation Before configuring the iSCSI multipath you have to install the following rom packages and source files tar gz so that the iSCSI service co
128. tial All rights reserved 87 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Osa Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Item name LDAP server IP address Base DN Admin DN Administrator password User base DN Group base DN Description Enter server IP address The base distinguished name DN indicates where in the LDAP directory you wish to load users and groups It is the top level of the LDAP directory tree to be used when searching for resources Suppose that all user accounts and groups are located in the Users folder under your domain In LDAP form it is cn Users dc lt your domain gt Let s say your domain is aaa bbb com The Base DN you should put in is cn Users dc aaa dc bbb dc com By default the administrator DN is in the form cn Administrator dc lt your domain gt Using previous example The Admin DN should be put in is cn Administrator dc aaa dc bbb dc com Enter the password of administrator of LDAP server DN stands for Distinguished Name DN is the unique identifier of each entry in LDAP directory structure This is used in the binding process when searching in LDAP directory structure Please make sure that LDAP server is up and running before joining LDAP domain If there is no domain user listed on user account page after logging in it means that the login process is not successful You need to verify if the LDAP server is available or any of the login parameters is incorrect The login pr
129. tion This page provides the critical hardware version and firmware version information when it comes to customer support service or trouble shooting issues It contains more details than System information section in Dashboard mentioned above System information System name U400HA BS A830 Model name U400HA MACISAS address 001378FFB000 Controller 1 5001378005901a80 Controller 2 5001378005901200 Firmware version 1 1 0 build 201506087000 SAS IOC firmware version Controller 1 17 00 01 00 Controller 2 17 00 01 00 Expander firmware version Controller 1 1 1 2 Controller 2 1 1 2 CPU type Intel R Xeon R CPU C3528 1 73GHz System memory Slot 1 ECC Unbuffered DDR II 8192MB slot 2 ECC Unbuffered DDR IIl 6192MB Serial number S N OS3160ALab02 JBOD MAC SAS address No JBOD is connected Download system information Click Download to download system information file Download Fig 7 4 System information Should anything goes wrong and customer support service is needed use the Download button to download complete system information which contains event log storage configuration system configuration and other debug information Please send the downloaded file to customer support for further evaluation and assessment Firmware upgrade and synchronization This is where to perform the firmware upgrade operation Click Browse button to locate the new firmware file BIN file and click Upgra
130. tions such as CIFS and NFS will be shown here Remote replication connections will be shown here as SSH The item in Fig 7 2 will be described below Online users Login date Thu Jun 78 2015 Wed Jun 17 2015 Item Login date Login time User Client Service 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved Login time User Client Service 09 54 27 admin robert notebook 192 1638 159 159 CIFS 17 10 22 admin 192 168 169 12 55H Fig 7 2 Connections of file services Description The date the connection is established The time the connection is established Who uses this connection Client machine information IP address Network protocol used for the connection 106 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sear Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 CIFS Windows machines connect to the NAS system NFS Linux or Unix machines connect to the NAS system SSH Remote replication or console UI for debugging Go to Dashboard gt Online connections gt iSCSI service All iSCSI connections will be shown here The meaning of each item in Fig 7 3 is described below Online connections No Initiator name Initiator IP Target name InitialR2T eee MaxOutR T MaxDataBurstLen 4 ign 4 sil a 192 168 11 55 higani ec area er rear Yes Yes 1 362144 2 see aa T ied Se Yes Yes 1 262144 3 MARE E 192 168 11 73 jonoj ella ale Yes Yes 1 362144 4 dagger 192 168 1277 ee e en Yes Yes 1 962144 5 ii d 192 168 12 77 PETTA a T p
131. to choose from The meaning of each item in Fig 6 1 is described below Snapshot 4 Take snapshot Filter i Total 540 Used GB Refer GB Create time Action 0150609 2200 0 0 Tue Jun 9 22 00 2015 Ei T 0150609 2300 0 0 Tue Jun 9 23 00 2015 he T 0150610 0000 0 0 Wed Jun 10 0 00 2015 Da T 0150610 0100 0 0 Wed Jun 10 1 00 2015 Di T 0150610 0200 0 0 Wed Jun 10 2 00 2015 Ea T 0150610 0300 g 0 Wed Jun 10 3 00 2015 Di T 0150610 0400 0 0 Wed Jun 10 4 00 2015 o T 0150610 0500 0 0 Wed Jun 10 5 00 2015 Da T 0150610 0600 0 0 Wed Jun 10 6 00 2015 ii T 0150610 0700 0 0 Wed Jun 10 7 00 2015 Da T 0150610 0800 0 0 Wed Jun 10 8 00 2015 Ea T RO RO 1 AUTO 20150610 0900 o 0 Wed Jun 10 9 00 2015 Ea T RO RO 1 AUTO 20150610 1000 0 0 Wed Jun 10 10 00 2015 Ei T RO RO 1 AUTO 20150610 1100 o 0 Wed Jun 10 11 00 2015 Ea T Fig 6 1 Snapshot table 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 91 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sear Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Item name Take snapshot Filter Total Name Used GB Refer GB Create time Action Description Click this button to start taking a new snapshot Select dedicated volume or LUN to display its snapshots The overall snapshot count that the NAS system has TrioNAS LX HA supports up to 4096 snapshots per system There is no limit per volume or per LUN When the system reaches 4096 snapshots the oldest snapshot will be deleted as the latest one
132. tocace A 15 PI SVG DI Fe cece ee erecta ieee dc cc we ge cree gv ce EE pee ce eee eaten en dec a pote E 15 STORAGE POO be ccccntcuracuiaces cvickscts east anncacabicemeansiai EE ETERA EEE AERAN 18 INSTANT READY amp FAST REBUILD oe ets ceermetncteiu eee cet saree EEE 21 BS TUN Garey na EEE E A raosesesntonemeranciues 21 OES E tans TEA A E E A AE A E A A E T E A A A T A 22 E a o secret a E AE EE EE E E PE E E E E E AE E E EE E E E 26 TANARO N T a E E AA EAA E A EE E E EEAS 28 Decrease Volume Size root ea recrsecnasaceare cas anteonesaueacanenavaensnmeusen trace squnateess envoneeaesanes syanvaeeeqearteacaranaeercannayeanent 29 COMPRES SION isc tpcntesionasiinwsndnesteddicistiloodnnaendes demain masinet sedcapiisleaseistmiuled daesdivessibnatens sup adnmssescinded E 29 Chapter 3 SYSTEM SET EIN GS xc soa cose sce i geataiasseae ac a cdeesiasiasstuxdeesvencedusosenteasueansee 31 GENERAL SETTING x ccccsastnateccsbsciensecenetscu sk AEAEE ERIRE EAER EEEE 31 DTE A WAM EEE E E E EE E E E 31 SSE UU IE eE OE EEEE toeenitaeaetens tii Taieenteats 32 FUGA AIIM BEI aee EEE AE ENAA E E E AS 33 Master slave controller sessssssssnsssennsssenssseresserssrersssrrsssrreserresrrreserreserrserreseereserreseerserreserreseeresene 33 Revision 1 1 0 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 5 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsar Date 2015 08 04 Chapter 4 Revision 1 1 0 Controller failover failback cccccscsecccc
133. twork interface assignment Click Apply to commit the changes LUN mapping management After creating a LUN you need to assign the LUN to an iSCSI target node before the LUN can be accessed by iSCSI initiator This process is called Attach The rules are below e ALUN can be attached to many iSCSI target nodes e An iSCSI target node can have many LUNs attached e It s amany to many relation to allow maximum flexibility On the initiator end the host computer can connect to different iSCSI target nodes to access different sets of LUNs CHAP authentication implemented on each iSCSI target node can add extra access control in case the forbidden hosts are trying to establish connection because they can still see those iSCSI target nodes they are not allowed to connect Go to Storage management gt iSCSI gt Mapping and click Attach and Fig 4 13 will pop up The meaning of each item in Fig 4 13 is explained below Mapping gt Attach Protocol SCSI iSCSI LUN name Quota 100 GB Target Permission Read only Read Write Fig 4 13 Attach a LUN Item name Description iSCSI LUN name A drop down list shows all available LUNs in the syntax of A B A is storage pool name B is LUN name 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 58 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sear Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Target iSCSI target node number It s O 63 Both co
134. ucture is created multiple domain names will be displayed For example KEVIN2012 is the parent domain and SUB is the child domain 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 86 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sam Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 User account Domain user Total 22 Create Search User name Group Quota GB KEVIN2012 administrator KEVIN2012 antony KEVIN2012 arthur arthur KEVIN2012 qguest Parent domain KEVIN2012 joe KEVIN2012 kKevin KEVIN2012 krbtgt KEVIN2Z012 leon KEVIN2012 mike1101 KEWIN2012 0ujoe KEVIN2012 0ukevin KEVIN2012 phil KEVIN2012 subS KEVIN2012 testt Child domain SUB administrator SU6 guest SUB kevin20125 SUB krbtgt M 4 gt P 1 2 page s Fig 5 7 Domain users To leave the domain is simple just select Standalone and click Ok The NAS system will leave the domain and clean all domain accounts LDAP management LDAP stands for Light weighted Directory Access Protocol LDAP version 3 is supported Similar to AD setting select LDAP and Fig 5 8 dialog box will pop up The meaning of each item in Fig 5 8 is described below Type LDAP LDAP server IP address fis21689165 Base DN de debianphil dc com Admin DN cn admin d c debianphil dc com Administrator password eesesse User base DN ou Users dc debianphil dc com Group base DN u Groups dc debianphil dc com Fig 5 8 LDAP setup 2015 Qsan Confiden
135. uld run smoothly and without any compatible issues Here is the order to install the packages we need e iscsi initiator utils 6 2 0 873 10 el6 x86_ 64 rom e device mapper 1 02 79 8 el6 x86_64 rpom e device mapper multipath 0 4 9 72 el6 x86_64 rpm All the necessary rpm packages can be found in the RHEL6 5 DVD Install them as follows rpm ivh media RHEL_6 5 x86_64 Disc 1 Packages iscsi initiator utils 6 2 0 873 10 el6 x86_64 rpm rpm ivh media RHEL_6 5 x86_64 Disc 1 Packages device mapper 1 02 79 8 el6 x86_6 4 rpm rpm ivh media RHEL_6 5 x86_64 Disc 1 Packages device mapper multipath 0 4 9 72 el 6 x86_64 rpm How to use Linux iSCSI initiator The iSCSI initiator name can be specified in the configuration file etc iscsi initiatorname iscsi vi etc iscsi initiatorname iscsi Edit the configuration file of iSCSI initiator in etc iscsi iscsid conf the iscsi session timeout value has to be changed to a proper value The default value is 120 seconds but it is too long to keep the I O wait before the path is judged as fail and it may cause the I O failure Please set a shorter and proper timeout value in this configuration file vi etc iscsi iscsid conf In etc iscsi iscsid conf it also provides others settings such as 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 74 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual san a 04 2015 Qsan Confidentia vision vi
136. up The status of the deduplication This option is only visible when it supports deduplication Status The status of the pool Online the pool is good Failed the pool fails Rebuild the pool is being rebuilt Current owner The pool belongs to which controller at the moment Preferred If failback process is commencing the pool will be assigned to the owner preferred owner Home The home directory is in the pool Yes the home directory is in the pool No the home directory is not in the pool RAID set slot You can see how many RAID groups constitute this pool RAID level and member disks of each RAID group will be displayed clearly Spare slot This shows what disks are the dedicated spares for this pool Read cache The SSD drives that are used as read cache L2ARC Write cache The SSD drives that are used as write cache ZIL Action J Edit This allows you change some attributes of the pool E Expand This is the online expansion function If the pool capacity is used up use this function to add more RAID groups to expand the capacity without affecting data access Scrub This is so called resilvering function It runs a series of tests to make sure the disks have no error T Delete Delete the pool The pool can be deleted when 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 20 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Ssa Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 there is no share or LUN in it except UserHome directo
137. ver failback the other is fail safe networking Master slave controller Even though TrioNAS LX HA is active active architecture mastership is still needed to be assigned to each controller to distinguish each other Fig 1 1 shows you how to tell which one is master controller The difference between master controller and slave controller is that the Web UI management service is running on the master controller Other than that both controllers are equal entities Aside from mastership each controller has its own naming controller1 and controller2 according to its slot position in the chassis Controller doesn t necessarily mean master controller Controller naming is used in Web UI management such as Dashboard ownership etc Graphs below shows how to get controller naming or you may refer to hardware user Manual 2U 12bay rear look Controller 1 Controller 2 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 33 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Sean Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 3U 16bay rear look Controller 1 Controller 2 4U 24bay rear look Controller 1 Controller 2 Controller failover failback If one of the controllers fails due to hardware or software difficulties the peer controller will take over all the I O tasks that are currently running on the failed controller The pool ownership will be transferred to the peer controller When this happens it is transparent to the
138. vided in the near future Lossless compression function provides advanced storage efficiency function Disabled No compression at all Default value Zero Reclaim When the data block contains all zeros no physical space will be consumed The block will be marked specifically Generic Zero Reclaim This is Qsan patent filing technology that will reclaim data blocks with special patterns such as all O s all 1 s Theoretically it will have better storage efficiency Enabled This will always enable lossless data compression function using LZJB algorithm Sync means synchronous I O which is similar to the definition of write through Synchronous I O is that every file system transaction is written and flushed to stable storage devices by a system call return The application needs to wait for the physical data update completion before it could issue another command Latency will be longer and performance will suffer If you don t know how to use this setting please leave it as Standard Disable All write commands become asynchronous It will ignore the synchronous transaction demands of applications such as database or NFS Standard The default value It depends on the applications Always All write commands become synchronous even if the application issues asynchronous transactions 23 Qsan Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 Number of data copies Block
139. work setting Power management General setting This section is about some basic system administration settings such as system name administrator password web management system time etc System Go to General setting gt System Fig 3 1 shows the page content The meaning of each item will be explained below System System name System name U400HA B9A830 Admin password New password Retype password Buzzer If buzzer is enabled the system will make a sound like a bee buzzing when system is on abnormal status O Enabled Disabled System identification Flash the status light on the front display Auto shutdown If auto shutdown is enabled the system will shutdown automatically when the internal power levels or temperature are not with normal levels O Enabled Disabled Web management timeout If auto logout time is set the system will log out automatically when user is inactive for a period of time Auto logout Login lock Web management setting Select communication protocol s for web service HTTPS will enable secure connection HTTP and HTTPS O HTTP only HTTPS only Change the web management port number Web management port HTTP Default 80 port Web management port HTTPS Default 443 port Fig 3 1 General system setting 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 31 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual SOsar Date 2015 08 04
140. xamples nas nas it com 192 168 0 1 or FE80 0 0 0 244 FF FE94 4CA2 Infs share eshare name gt F Mount NFS read only If a datastore already exists in the datacenter For this NFS share and you intend to configure the same datastore on new hosts make sure that you enter the same input data Server and Folder that you used for the original datastore Different input data would mean different datastores even if the underlying NFS storage is the same Folder NFS share name Datastore Name m Help lt Back Cancel iSCSI and Windows iSCSI initiator This example is based on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Before we can proceed please consult earlier sections regarding LUN management and LUN mapping to configure your LUNs properly In Windows operating systems iSCSI initiator utility is provided as a freeware On Windows server platform from Windows Server 2008 going forward Windows iSCSI initiator is a built in utility The same applies to desktop platform From Windows 7 going forward Windows iSCSI initiator is a built in utility for free 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 63 Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual cOsan a Revision 1 1 0 Connect to iSCSI target iSCSI Initiator Properties Launch iSCSI initiator and click on Discovery lt ___ tab Click Discover Portal and put in IP Targets Discovery Favorite Tar
141. y of a storage pool can be added online by demand without interrupting data access The capacity is not allowed to shrink by removing RAID groups away from the storage pool as the data is striped across all RAID groups in the pool The disks of a RAIG group can come from different enclosures local and JBOD The RAID groups of a storage pool can come from different enclosures too This provides the maximum flexibility for users to configure their disk assignment From the storage pool you carve out storage space for shares and LUNs Shares are used by file sharing services such as CIFS and NFS LUNs are used by iSCSI targets Because shares and LUNs come from the same storage pool this can achieve maximum efficiency without wasting any capacity You start with creating a new pool The UI looks like Fig 2 3 below Column name Description Pool name Give a name to the new pool Alphanumeric letters are allowed RAID level From this drop down list select the RAID level you want A brief description of the RAID level you selected will be displayed below for easy reference Pool owner Because TrioNAS LX HA supports active active mode and ALUA Asymmetric Logic Unit Assignment function Each pool 2015 Qsan Confidential All rights reserved 18 eQsan Set up home directory Write cache Show disk for Qsan document title TriNAS LX HA software manual Date 2015 08 04 Revision 1 1 0 belongs to one of the controllers
142. ystem It s a name resolution service that translates domain name into corresponding IP address The meaning of each item in Fig 3 17 is explained below DNS DNS setting DNS Domain Name Service provides a means to translate hostname to IP address Enter DNS IP addresses below Obtain DNS server address automatically Use the following DNS server address Primary DNS sz46s401 Sceondary DNS DNS search path FO D Note DONS setting will apply to all networks ports All network ports share same DNS Setting _ Apply Reset Fig 3 17 DNS setting Item name Description Obtain DSN server Use DHCP server to obtain DNS related information address automatically Primary DNS The IP address of DNS server can be entered or changed here The DNS settings will be applied to all network ports which mean you ONLY need to select one of the network ports and start DNS setting Secondary DNS This is optional DNS search path It is a list of domains to try when the system tries to translate a machine name into an IP address It provides more flexibility than the simple domain statement A storage pool can be made of up to 512 RAID sets which can use different RAID levels File systems for file sharing and volumes for iSCSI LUNs are created from the storage pool Please check the following graph IP filtering IP filtering provides basic firewall function to screen the incoming connection IP address It s also a way of acce

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