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OneFS Web Administration Guide
OneFS Event Reference Guide

OneFS Web Administration GuideThe OneFS Web Administration Guide describes how to activate licenses, configure network interfaces, manage the file system, provision block storage, run system jobs, protect data, back up the cluster, set up storage pools, establish quotas, secure access, migrate data, integrate with other applications, and monitor PowerScale clusters.
- About this guideThis guide describes how the PowerScale OneFS web administration interface provides access to cluster configuration, management, and monitoring functionality.
- Scale-out NAS overviewThe scale-out NAS storage platform combines modular hardware with unified software to harness unstructured data. Powered by the OneFS operating system, a cluster delivers a scalable pool of storage with a global namespace.
- Where to go for support This topic contains resources for getting answers to questions about PowerScale products.
- PowerScale scale-out NASPowerScale OneFS combines the three layers of storage architecture—file system, volume manager, and data protection—into a scale-out NAS cluster.
- General cluster administration
- Access zones
  - Data Security overview The default view of a PowerScale cluster is that of one physical machine. But you can partition a cluster into multiple virtual containers called access zones. Access zones allow you to isolate data and control who can access data in each zone.
  - Base directory guidelinesA base directory defines the file system tree that is exposed by an access zone. The access zone cannot grant access to any files outside of the base directory. Assign a base directory to each access zone.
  - Access zones best practicesYou can avoid configuration problems on the PowerScale cluster when creating access zones by following best practices guidelines.
  - Access zones on a SyncIQ secondary clusterYou can create access zones on a SyncIQ secondary cluster that is used for backup and disaster recovery, with some limitations.
  - Access zone limitsYou can follow access zone limits guidelines to help size the workloads on the OneFS system.
  - Quality of serviceYou can set upper bounds on quality of service by assigning specific physical resources to each access zone.
  - Zone-based Role-based Access Control (zRBAC) You can assign roles and a subset of privileges to users on a per-access-zone basis.
  - Zone-specific authentication providersSome information about how authentication providers work with zRBAC.
  - Managing access zonesYou can create access zones on a PowerScale cluster, view and modify access zone settings, and delete access zones.
    - Create an access zoneYou can create an access zone and define a base directory and authentication providers.
    - Assign an overlapping base directoryYou can create overlapping base directories between access zones for cases where your workflows require shared data.
    - Manage authentication providers in an access zoneYou can add an remove authentication providers to an access zone and manage the order in which the providers are checked during the authentication process.
    - Associate an IP address pool with an access zoneYou can associate an IP address pool with an access zone to ensure that clients can connect to the access zone only through the range of IP addresses assigned to the pool.
    - Modify an access zoneYou can modify the properties of any access zone with some exceptions: you cannot change the name of the built-in System zone, and you cannot modify the selected groupnet.
    - Delete an access zoneYou can delete any access zone except the built-in System zone. When you delete an access zone, all associated authentication providers remain available to other zones, but IP addresses are not reassigned to other zones. SMB shares, NFS exports, and HDFS data paths are deleted when you delete an access zone; however, the directories and data still exist, and you can map new shares, exports, or paths in another access zone.
    - View a list of access zonesYou can view a list of all access zones on the cluster.
    - Modify a role in an access zoneYou can modify zone-level roles with the help of the Current access zone list.
- Authentication
- Administrative roles and privileges
- Identity management
- Home directoriesWhen you create a local user, OneFS automatically creates a home directory for the user.
- Data access controlOneFS supports two types of permissions data on files and directories that control who has access: Windows-style access control lists (ACLs) and POSIX mode bits (UNIX permissions).
- File sharingYou can access files and directories using SMB for Windows file sharing, NFS for Unix file sharing, secure shell (SSH), FTP, and HTTP.
- File filteringFile filtering enables you to allow or deny file writes based on file type.
- Auditing
- Snapshots
- Deduplication with SmartDedupe
- Data replication with SyncIQ
- Data layout with FlexProtect
- NDMP backup
- File retention with SmartLock
- Protection domains
- Data-at-rest encryption
- S3 Support
- SmartQuotas
- Storage pools
- Pool-based tree reporting in FSAnalyze (FSA)
- Job management
- Networking
- Partitioned Performance Performing for NFS
- Antivirus
- File system explorer
OneFS Event Reference Guide

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OneFS Web Administration GuideThe OneFS Web Administration Guide describes how to activate licenses, configure network interfaces, manage the file system, provision block storage, run system jobs, protect data, back up the cluster, set up storage pools, establish quotas, secure access, migrate data, integrate with other applications, and monitor PowerScale clusters.
Access zones
Managing access zonesYou can create access zones on a PowerScale cluster, view and modify access zone settings, and delete access zones.

Managing access zones

You can create access zones on a PowerScale cluster, view and modify access zone settings, and delete access zones.