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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. For information about APEX File Storage Services, see the Dell Technologies APEX File Storage Services Administration Guide.
- Scale-out NAS overviewThe scale-out NAS storage platform combines modular hardware with unified software to harness unstructured data. The OneFS operating system powers the platform to deliver a scalable pool of storage with a global namespace.
- Where to get help
- 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
- 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
  - Networking overviewAfter you determine the topology of your network, you can set up and manage your internal and external networks.
  - About the internal networkA cluster must connect to at least one high-speed, low-latency InfiniBand switch (Generation 5 and Generation 6 nodes) or Ethernet (Generation 6 and PowerScale F200 and F600 nodes) for internal communications and data transfer. The connection is also referred to as an internal network. The internal network is separate from the external network (Ethernet) by which users access the cluster.
  - About the external networkYou connect a client computer to the cluster through the external network. External network configuration is composed of groupnets, subnets, IP address pools, and features node provisioning rules.
  - Configuring the internal networkYou can modify the internal network settings of your cluster.
  - Managing groupnetsYou can create and manage groupnets on a cluster.
  - Managing external network subnets You can create and manage subnets on a cluster.
  - Managing IP address poolsYou can create and manage IP address pools on the cluster.
  - Managing SmartConnect Settings You can configure SmartConnect settings within each IP address pool on the cluster.
  - Managing network interface membersYou can add and remove network interfaces to IP address pools.
  - Managing node provisioning rules You can create and manage node provisioning rules that automate the configuration of new network interfaces.
  - Managing routing optionsYou can provide additional control of the direction of outgoing client traffic through source-based routing or static route configuration.
  - Managing DNS cache settingsYou can set DNS cache settings for the external network.
  - Managing TCP portsYou can modify the list of client TCP ports available to the external network.
- Partitioned Performance Monitoring
- 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.
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Networking