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ECS 3.7 Administration Guide
ECS 3.7 Administration Guide
Rev. 1.1
  • Welcome to ECS
  • Notes, cautions, and warnings
  • Overview
  • Getting Started with ECS
  • Storage Pools, VDCs, and Replication Groups
  • Authentication Providers
  • Namespaces
  • Users and Roles
  • Identity and Access Management (S3)
  • Buckets
  • File Access
  • Maintenance
  • Certificates
  • ECS Settings
  • ECS Outage and Recovery
  • Advanced Monitoring
  • Document feedback
  • Welcome to ECS ECS provides a complete software-defined cloud storage platform that supports the storage, manipulation, and analysis of unstructured data on a massive scale on commodity hardware. ECS can be deployed as a turnkey storage appliance or as a software product that can be installed on qualified commodity servers and disks. ECS offers all the cost advantages of commodity infrastructure with the enterprise reliability, availability, and serviceability of traditional arrays.
  • Notes, cautions, and warnings
  • Overview
  • Getting Started with ECS
  • Storage Pools, VDCs, and Replication Groups
  • Authentication Providers
  • Namespaces
  • Users and Roles
  • Identity and Access Management (S3)
  • Buckets
  • File Access
    • Introduction to file access
    • ECS multi-protocol access
    • Working with NFS exports in the ECS PortalYou can use the Exports tab on the File page available from Manage > File to view the details of existing NFS exports, to create new NFS exports, and to edit existing exports.
    • Working with user/group mappings in the ECS PortalYou can use the User/Group Mapping tab on the File page available from Manage > File to view the existing mappings between ECS object users/groups and Unix users, to create new user/group mappings, and to edit mappings.
    • ECS NFS configuration tasksYou must perform the following tasks to configure ECS NFS.
      • Create a bucket for NFS using the ECS Portal You can use the ECS Portal to create a bucket configured for use with NFS.
      • Add an NFS export using the ECS PortalYou can use the ECS Portal to create an NFS export and set the options that control access to the export.
      • Add a user or group mapping using the ECS PortalTo provide NFS access to the file system (the bucket), you must map an object user who has permissions on the bucket to a UNIX User ID (UID) so that the UNIX user acquires the same permissions as the object user. Alternatively, you can map an ECS custom group that has permissions on the bucket to a UNIX Group ID (GID) to provide access for members of the UNIX group.
      • Configure ECS NFS with Kerberos securityTo configure Kerberos authentication with ECS NFS, you must configure both the ECS nodes and the NFS client, and create keytabs for the NFS server principal and for the NFS client principal.
    • Mount an NFS export example
    • NFS access using the ECS Management REST APIYou can use the following APIs to configure and manage NFS access.
    • NFS WORM (Write Once, Read Many)
    • S3A support
    • Geo-replication statusThe ECS S3 head supports Geo replication status of an object with replicationInfo. It API retrieves Geo replication status of an object using replicationInfo. This automates their capacity management operations, enable site reliability operations and ensures that the critical date is not deleted accidently.
  • Maintenance
  • Certificates
  • ECS Settings
  • ECS Outage and Recovery
  • Advanced MonitoringAdvanced Monitoring dashboards provide critical information about the ECS processes on the VDC you are logged in to.
  • Document feedback
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  3. ECS NFS configuration tasksYou must perform the following tasks to configure ECS NFS.

ECS NFS configuration tasks

You must perform the following tasks to configure ECS NFS.

Steps

  1. Create a bucket for NFS using the ECS Portal
  2. Add an NFS export using the ECS Portal
  3. Add a user or group mapping using the ECS Portal
  4. Configure ECS NFS with Kerberos security

Next steps

After you perform the above steps, you can mount the NFS export on the export host.

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