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Zadara Storage Cloud VPSA User Guide

1. Users gt Enter the following details e Remote VPSA IP Address o Ifthe remote VPSA is located in a different Zadara Storage Cloud on a remote Region Enter the remote VPSA Public IP address You can find it in the VPSA details in the Management console or in the remote VPSA GUI under Controllers gt Public IP Check the Discover remote VPSA through Public IP checkbox o Ifthe other VPSA is located in the same Zadara Storage Cloud Enter the remote VPSA Management IP address Don t check the Discover remote VPSA through Public IP checkbox e Username amp Password For authentication against the remote VPSA you are required to enter the username and password of a valid user in the remote VPSA A cryptographic hash value using a one way SHA 1 hash function of the entered password is sent to the remote VPSA 10 2 Viewing remote VPSA Properties English ZadaraProd 13 10 1044 19 Si Remote VPSAS Sj Resources Gei ra vi m gt ves Refresh Discover Update Delete g RAID Groups ID Name Provider IP vsa 000000de ZadaraDR aws3 38 102 162 128 ts Pools Volumes BR Servers Page 1 of 1 mm Controllers e S Details for ZadaraDR 3 Data Protection Properties As Title Logs D Zu Name Total Capacity Free Capacity Mode Stripe Size Bel Remote Mirroring pool_DB_DR 1 1 TB 1 1 TB Stripe 64 KB pool webfiles DR 1 1 TB 1 1 TB Stripe 64 KB Snapshot Policies VPSA User Guide Page 65 You
2. Page 32 B Connect Server x Platform Linux iSCSI Step 1 sudo wget 0 vpsa_linux sh https 172 31 240 108 api servers vpsa_linux sh access key AL2ZGMYQT5ZH7Q92GD71Ceiscsi yes no check certificate Step 2 sudo chmod u x vpsa_linux sh Step 3 sudo vpsa_linux sh Close e Once the connect script completes successfully the new connected Server will be listed in the VPSA Servers page with status Active Registered Yes and the correct OS details 7 1 2 Adding a Network Range You can add a single server object to the VPSA representing an IP Network Range rather than adding each Server in the range separately This is especially useful when attaching SMB NFS shares to large number of servers in a subnet Use the following manual procedure to add this type of Server while specifying the IP range in CIDR notation e g 192 168 1 1 24 7 1 3 Adding a Server manually If for some reason adding a server automatically doesn t work or if you wish to add an IP Network Range follow these steps to add the server manually Go to Servers gt Add and select Manual VPSA User Guide Page 33 BR Bf Refresh Add Config Delete Name a let ilock iSCSI IQN WIN V91 ASMAB iqn 1991 05 com microsoft WIN FYHZ2L76L6P U U U 219 iqn 1991 05 com microsoft WIN NFANY2N1UKO 10 0 0 220 ign 1991 05 com microsoft WIN ROAKLSESEIO Create Server ip 10 0 0 86 Page 1 Name
3. e e e La ei Refresh Add User Delete User Reset Password Username Email lir oS 2adarastorage com x amp Change Password us storage com Current Password New Password New Password Confirm Cancel Enter your current password a new password and confirm the new password Click Change Password to submit the operation Note This operation is available to Admin User and to all regular Users If you log as the Admin User and see the full list of the available VPSA Users the Change my Password button will be enabled only when your Admin User is selected Resetting User Password This operation is available only to the Admin User You can reset any User s password A new temporary passcode will be created and sent to the Admin User email The user will be requested to set a new password on next log in Log in to the VPSA with Admin User credentials Go to Users page select a user from the users list and click Reset Password button Resetting API Key Zadara Storage employs a session based authentication mechanism as a means to identify a user for every HTTP request to a VPSA You initiate a session by logging in with the VPSA User Password Upon successful authentication a Secret API Token is sent back to the client application for any subsequent REST API communication with the VPSA to identify the authenticated user and validate the session At any time you can generate a new Secret API Token thus invalidat
4. Name Status Free Capacity Pool Webfiles normal 1 6 TB 1 6 TB pool_DB normal ce ere Apply Snapshot Policy 7 Name Create Policy Delete Policy Hourly Snapshots For a Day Every hour Keep latest 24 snapshots Daily Snapshots for a Week Once per day at midnight Keep latest 7 snapshots Weekly Snapshots for a Year Every Sunday at midnight Keep latest 53 snapshots Encrypted J Submit Cancel Define the following Volume attributes in the Create Thin Volume dialog Name the Volume s display name Needs to be unique and can be modified throughout the Volume s lifetime Capacity Virtual Capacity of the Volume in GB As all Volumes are thinly provisioned no actual capacity is allocated when the Volume is created hence the Virtual capacity is not bounded by the Pool capacity You are permitted to over provision a Pool but you need to handle it carefully using Pool Protection Mechanism check here for more details Pool Select the Pool that is most appropriate for your Volume s QoS requirements available capacity caching RAID protection drive types etc Apply snapshot Policy Check here for detailed explanation regarding snapshot policies You can apply and remove snapshot policies from a Volume at any time If you select this check box you are requested to select one of the existing snapshot policies Encrypted Select the check box if you wish to encrypt the volume s data on the drives Please note that you must
5. It may take a few minutes depending on the Virtual capacity of the Share During that time the share will be in Creating state When initialization is completed the Share s status will change to Available and an event log message will be saved Notification x i The request has been submitted and it may take a few moments to complete Check event log for further details OK Deleting a Volume Share You can delete a Volume if it is not attached to any Server In the Volumes page select the Volume and press the Delete button It will move the Volume to Deleting status immediately The deletion process may take some time depending on the Volume size and the number of Snapshots and Clones which share the data Chunks The VPSA needs to update chunk mapping and references accordingly When the deletion process completes the Volume will disappear from the Volume page and an event log message will be saved If the Volume has snapshots associated with it the VPSA will need to delete them together with the Volume You will be prompted to confirm the deletion of the Snapshots as well amp Volumes Status Data Type vol SQL 200 GB Available BLOCK oc DB web files 1000 GB Available File System ool_Webfiles 0 0 ge a CH Web logs 100 GB Available BLOCK nol N ebfiles Confirmation Required x B OK Cancel Clones of the deleted Volume are not affected by the deletion of the Volume 8 2 Attaching amp
6. Management Address 4 Change Engine https vsa 000000d0 aws eu1 zadaravpsa com Assign Public IP IP Address 172 29 224 104 Public IP None Add Drives Cache 20GB A Adjust Cache Enterprise Suite Enabled Disable Enterprise Suite To resume access to the VPSA go to the VPSA Management Console and press the button 5 Managing RAID Groups and Disks 5 1 Creating a RAID Group E k KR L E E amp Refresh Create Delete Force Recover Media Scan Sync Speed Add Spare Remove Spare Create Pool VPSA RAID Groups define the level of protection and performance of your data according to the selected RAID level number of drives and type of drives RAID VPSA User Guide Page 15 groups span across full capacity drives from different Storage Nodes Thus a RAID Group is resilient to a single drive failure RAID 6 allows for a 2 drive failure as well as to a complete Storage Node failure Define the following attributes in the Create RAID Group dialog box e Enter the RAID Group name you will later add it to a Pool so you may want to provide a meaningful name that describes the target usage of the Pool e Select Protection Type See the below description for the various RAID levels e Select whether to allocate a drive as a Hot Spare for this RAID group See more details about managing Hot Spares here e Select the drives that participate in the RAID Group As noted below for RAID 1 a minimum of 2 drives is req
7. Max 20 drives 1 99 hr EN Submit Cancel This operation requires the approval of the Zadara Storage Cloud Admin The Zadara Engine upgrade downgrade process may take a few minutes During that time your VPSA status will change to Upgrade Pending Name Management Address Drives Provider Status Refresh Delete Upgrade Pending ZadaraProd https vsa 00000112 aws2 zadaravpsa com 9 D AWS US East N Virginia 2 When the process completes the VPSA status will change back to Ready 4 3 Assigning Public IPs For security amp privacy reasons you cannot access the VPSA by default from the public Internet The VPSA FrontEnd IP address used for VPSA management via GUI and REST API and for data IO workload via iSCSI NFS SMB protocols is allocated on the Zadara Storage Cloud Front End network 10GbE interface which is routable from the Cloud Servers network Servers outside of your Cloud Servers network cannot reach this IP address VPSA User Guide Page 12 You are required to assign a Public IP address to your VPSA when you d like to access it from the public Internet typical use case requiring Public IP addresses is when you re doing Asynchronous Remote Mirroring between two VPSAs in different regions or even different Cloud Providers for Disaster Recovery DR Communication between the VPSAs is done via an authenticated and encrypted channel over the public Internet thus requiring Public
8. Multiple X will be displayed when X servers are attached VPSA User Guide Page 53 NFS Export Path The NFS Share export path to be used when mounting it SMB Export Path The SMB Share export path to be used when connecting to it from a Windows Server Access Type Access protocols which are used by the Servers which are attached to a NAS Share NFS SMB or Multiple atime Update Yes No Indicates whether to update access time of NAS Share files and directories on every access including read access SMB Only Yes No SMB Guest Access Yes No Allow Block anonymous user access WWID SCSI unique World wide ID Use this value on Linux Servers to identify the Volume device when multipathing is configured Date amp time when the Volume was created Modified Date amp time when the Volume was last modified Snapshots Lists the point in time Snapshots of this Volume If you retain many Snapshots per Volume you may want to use the Snapshot Filtering tool to find a specific Snapshot For more details check here Snapshot Policies amp Details for vol SQL Properties Snapshots Snapshot Policies E Servers Metering Logs Apply Snapshot Policy Name Status Create Policy Delete Policy Dest Delete Policy Hourly Snapshots For a Day Active Every hour Keep latest 24 snapshots Keep latest 24 snapshots Daily Snapshots for a Week Paused Once per day at midnight Keep latest 7 snapshots Keep latest 7 snapshots yearly Weeken
9. iSCSI ION E Details IP or CIDR Block Enable IPsec E Create Cancel e Enter the Server Name IPsec Disabled Disabled Disabled e A Server Object must have at least one of the following attributes defined o Server IP or CIDR For NFS SMB access o IQN For iSCSI access e Check the Enable IPSec checkbox if you wish to secure iSCSI traffic between the Server and the VPSA Please note that your Server must be properly configured to utilize IPsec and that performance is impacted 7 1 3 1 Establishing an iSCSI connection After adding a Server manually you need to establish an iSCSI connection between the Server and the VPSA Please note that you can skip this step if the Server was added automatically or if the Server is only consuming NFS SMB type of Volumes On Windows Servers e Open iSCSI Initiator In Windows Start gt Run dialog type iSCSI and select the iSCSI Initiator program If this is the first time you have run iSCSI initiator on this Server you will be prompted to start the service Press Yes to confirm Microsoft iSCSI The Microsoft iSCSI service is not running The service is required to be started For iSCSI to Function correctly To start the service now and have the service start automatically each time the computer restarts click the Yes button e The Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Properties dialog box will open and the Targets tab will be displayed VPSA
10. the VPSA and is displayed in the Servers GUI page The name of the server is its iSCSI initiator IQN You may change the Server Display Name Note To achieve best performance it is recommended to use multiple sessions amp MPIO To enable MPIO please follow the instructions at http zadarastorage zendesk com entries 20925646 how to enable mpio and set multiple iscsi sessions on windows server 2008 r2 On Linux Servers Locate the VPSA iSCSI IP address and the CHAP Username and Password in the VPSA GUI Controllers Page VPSA User Guide Page 36 Controllers V ss Refresh Failover CHAP Auth NFS Domain Public IPs Power On Encryption Name Storage Node Management IP iSCSI IP vsa 00000112 vc 1 iadzadapp02p 172 31 240 109 vsa 00000112 yvc 0 iadzadappO01p 172 31 240 108 172 31 240 108 se CHAP Authentication x CHAP Username ZadaraProd CHAP Secret tlogWUNOIN4L d Submit Cancel Run the following commands to issue an iSCSI login using CHAP credentials iscsiadm m node T lt VPSA Target ION gt p lt VPSA Management IP gt op new iscsiadm m node T lt VPSA Target ION gt p lt VPSA Management IP gt op update n node session auth authmethod v CHAP iscsiadm m node T lt VPSA Target ION gt p lt VPSA Management IP gt op update n node session auth username v lt CHAP username gt iscsiadm m node T lt VPSA Target ION gt p lt VPSA Management IP gt
11. User Guide Page 34 e On the Targets tab type the iSCSI IP address of the VPSA which is displayed in the VPSA GUI Controllers page in the Quick Connect target text box and then click the Quick Connect button e The Quick Connect dialog box will be displayed with the VPSA discovered iSCSI target in an Inactive status Press Done Controllers A k ai w f iSCSI Initiator Properties x Refresh Failover CHAP Auth NFS Domain Public IPs Power On Encryption TE Storage Node Management IP iSCSI IP Targets Discovery Favorite Targets Volumes and Devices RADIUS Configuration Quick Connect vsa 00000112 ve 1 iadzadapp02p 172 31 240 109 To discover and log on to target using basic connection type the IP address or vsa 00000112 vc 0 iadzadappoip 172 31 240 108 172 31 240 108 pe Target 172 31 240 108 Quick Connect M Discovered targets Refresh Quick Connect xi Targets that are available for connection at the IP address or DNS name that you provided are listed below IF multiple targets are available you need to connect to each target individually Connections made here will be added to the list of Favorite Targets and an attempt to restore them will be made every time this computer restarts M Discovered targets Page 1 of 1 D To conne click Conr Details for ysa 00000112 c 0 To comple then click Properties Metering Logs For targe select the ID vsa 0
12. VPSA User Guide Page 66 e Mirroring Policies Select one or more existing Snapshots Policies The Snapshot policies define the number of Snapshots to retain on Source and Destination Volumes and the minimum time between Snapshots and hence the Return Point Objective See here for more details on Snapshot Policies 10 4 Pause amp Continue Remote Mirror It is possible to pause a Remote Mirror paused Mirror will stop syncing data immediately and stop creating new Snapshots The status of the Mirror will move to Paused Note A Mirror will be paused automatically if the Enterprise Suite is disabled To pause a Mirror select the Mirror in the Remote Mirroring page and press the Pause button 3 amp 3 Resources e en G Va GP o ives 5 p Refresh Create Reconnect Break RAID Groups Mirror Name Status Source YPSA Destination YPSA RPO D Ge Mirror Vol SQL Syncing 21 ZadaraProd ZadaraDR None ty ools Volumes Confirm Pause x Servers o Are you sure you would like to pause the Mirror Mirror Vol SQL we Controllers d lt j Data Protection Page 1 of 1 Yes No Displaying 1 1 of 1 fa kemote e ik Details for Mirror Vol SQL ard Remote Mirroring Properties gt Snapsot Snapshot Policies Metering Logs Snapshot Policies ID srcjvpsa 00000001 Name Mirror Vol SOL Access Control To Continue the Mirror operation select the Mirror in the Remote Mirroring page and press the Continue button 2 Engl
13. can view all the remote VPSAs for which this VPSA has established a trusted relationship For each VPSA the following details are provided e Remote ID The VPSA ID of the remote VPSA e Name The name of the remote VPSA e Provider The name of the Cloud Provider where the remote VPSA is located e Software Version e IP Public or Management IP through which the VPSAs are connected e Pool list Each VPSA publishes the list of Pools that can be used to provision the remote Volume o Note This list is not updated automatically Click the Update button to update the remote Pools info from the remote VPSA 10 3 Creating a Remote Mirror To create a Remote Mirror go to the Volume page and click the Protect gt Create Mirror button Alternatively you can create the Remote Mirror from the Remote Mirroring page by clicking Create You will see a similar dialog English I Resources E 2 Drives ge t ving L 7 bg Ly Refresh Create Delete Expand Servers Protect RAID Groups Name Capacity Status E Create Snapshot Pool Server s D vol SQL 200 GB In use clone pool DB Multiple 2 web files 1000 GB In use Pool Webfiles AMAZONA 1FO1PAM EL Create Mirror b logs Ha 250 GB Available Pool Webfiles web logs ES Reconnect Mirror D Servers S Create Remote Mirror amp Attach Snapshot Policy x Gei Controllers KN Mirror Name Mirror Vol SOL 33 Data Protection Page 1 remote Volume Vol 5Q DR fl Remote VPSAs beads D R
14. client side is localdomain and therefore this is also the default value in the VPSA NOTE In a Linux client the domain name is usually set in the etc idmap conf file It is mandatory to have this value set NOTE2 Make sure idmapd service is running In Ubuntu idmapd service In RedHat rpcidmapd and that sys module nfs parameters nfs4_disable_idmapping is set to N to make it persistent set GRUB CMDLINE LINUX DEFAULT nfs nfs4 disable idmapping N in etc default grub and then run update grub e Goto VPSA GUI gt NAS Users and press the Create button VPSA User Guide Page 59 Set the user name Check NFS authentication Select an NFS UID in the range 1 999 999 If you wish to grant this user access to SMB shares as well check the SMB check box and provide the User SMB Password to be used later when mounting a share on a Windows Client a9 amp D fa NAS Users z e CH ke Ka Refresh Create Delete Name NFS UID SMB Password Set root 0 No nobody 1000000 No amp Create NAS User x Username zdr user Authentication pa SMB NFS UID 100 Create User Cancel 9 3 2 Creating SMB Users e Goto VPSA GUI gt NAS Users and click the Create button e Set the user name e Check SMB authentication e Provide the User SMB Password You will be asked to provide this user name and SMB password when mapping a network drive on the Windows Client e Ifyou wish to grant this user access to N
15. detaching Volumes to Servers Volumes can be attached to many Servers Block Volumes are attached via the iSCSI protocol NAS Shares are attached via the NFS SMB protocol To attach a Volume VPSA User Guide Page 43 Go to the Volumes page select the Volume and press the Servers gt Attach to Server s button amp Volumes Va W P m S WM Refresh Create Delete Expand Servers Protect Name Capacity Stat JS Attach to Server s Data Type Pool vol SQL 200 GB Ava SH art BLOCK pool DB web files 1000 GB Available File System Pool webfiles Attach Volume to Server s x J Name Status IP ION IPsec VI AMAZONA 1F0 Active 192 168 1 249 iqn 1991 05 co Disabled Page 1 of 1 Displaying 1 1 of 1 Access Type NFS S Submit Cancel e Select the Server s that you d like to have access to the Volume e For NAS Shares select the access type NFS or SMB e Press Submit to confirm Mounting an NFS Share on a Linux machine 1 Install NFS client a On Ubuntu Servers do apt get install nfs common b On Redhat CenOS Servers do yum install nfs utils 2 Create a mount point a mkdir mnt nfs_share 3 Run the following command as the superuser or with sudo a mount t nfs4 lt NFS Export Path gt lt mount point gt b You can find the NFS Export Path in the VPSA GUI Volume page gt Properties tab 4 Follow the step in Managing NFS Users Access Control to setup basic NFS authentication Mounting a SMB
16. first define an encryption password via the Controller Page For more details about Volume encryption please check here Creating a NAS Share VPSA U ser Guide Page 41 Create NAS Share x Name Capacity GB 400 vol webfiles lt gt Export Name vol_webfiles atime Update SMB Only optimized for performance MP SMB Allow Guest Access Pool Name Status Free Capacity Pool backup normal aS eee en Pool webfiles normal WEE wees Pool DB normal 98GB 183 GB Pool T normal metroen Apply Snapshot Policy Name Create Policy Delete Policy Hourly Snapshots For a Day Every hour Keep latest 24 snapshots Daily Snapshots for a Week Once per day at midnight Keep latest 7 snapshots Weekly Snapshots for a Year Every Sunday at midnight Keep latest 53 snapshots every minute for an hour Every 1 minute Keep latest 60 snapshots every 5 min for a day Every 5 minutes Keep latest 288 snapshots Encrypted Submit Cancel Define the following Volume attributes in the Create Share DDD dialog Name the Share s display name Needs to be unique and can be modified throughout the Share s lifetime Capacity Virtual Capacity of the Share in GBs As all Shares are thinly provisioned no actual capacity is allocated when the Share is created hence the Virtual capacity is not bounded by the Pool capacity You are permitted to over provision a Pool but you need to handle it carefully using Pool Protec
17. is displayed per drive e Name e Location Storage Node e Capacity in GB e Type SAS SATA SSD TBD e Status Normal Failed TBD e Hot Spare Yes No Selected RAID level RAID 1 RAID 5 or RAID 6 Total protected and usable capacity of the RAID Group Available RAID Group usable capacity which is not allocated to any Capacity Pool Stripe size per drive for RAID 5 and RAID 6 Metering The Metering Charts provide live metering of the IO workload associated with the selected RAID Group VPSA User Guide Page 18 UI The charts display the metering data as it was captured in the past 20 Intervals An Interval length can be one of the following 1 Second 1 Minute 10 Minutes or 1 Hour The Auto button lets you see continuously updating live metering info refreshed every 3 sec Note The metering info of the RAID Group doesn t include RAID generated IOs such as when doing a rebuild The following charts are displayed The Number of Read and Write SCSI commands issued to the RAID Group per Second Total throughput in MB of Read and Write SCSI commands issued to the RAID Group per Second Average response time of all Read and Write SCSI commands issued to the RAID Group per Selected interval Properties lt gt Drives ET Metering Logs e rd iotime wrt iotime wr bandwidth E rd bandwidth hj co IO Time ms ay ho ee DD DE E a Bandwidth MB s Lo
18. than the threshold A support ticket amp email are generated as well When crossing this threshold the Free Capacity State changes to Emergency and the available capacity will be shown in Red o Default 1 GB o Minimum 1 minute 7 Managing Servers Servers Objects in the VPSA represent Cloud Servers that consume VPSA Volumes A Server needs to be properly defined and connected in order to access the VPSA Volumes via iSCSI NFS or SMB CIFS protocols 7 1 Adding a Server Establishing a connection between a Server and the VPSA involves the following steps 7 1 1 VPSA User Guide Creation of a Server Object in the VPSA database Setting the Server IQN for iSCSI connectivity and or the server IP address for NFS SMB connectivity Establishing CHAP authentication handshake between the Server and the VPSA for iSCSI Register Server OS information optional Adding a Server automatically Page 30 The VPSA automates the above steps for you via the Connect Server script Go to Servers gt Add and select Automatic E Servers I 8 a Refresh Add Config Delete Name IS Jk CIDR Block iSCSI ION IPsec Registered WIN V9LASMABU a me 0 0 29 iqn 1991 05 com microsoft win v91a Disabled yes WIN FYH2L76L6PC 10 0 0 219 iqn 1991 05 com microsoft win Fyh2l Disabled ves WIN NFANY2N1UKO 10 0 0 220 iqn 1991 05 com microsoft win nfanv Disabled ves WIN ROAKLSESEIO 10 0 0 20 iqn 1991 05 com microsoft win roakl
19. threshold the Free Capacity State changes to Alert and the available capacity will be shown in Yellow A secondary reminder ticket email will be generated when the estimated time left is half of this threshold o Default 360 minutes 6 hours o Minimum 1 minute VPSA User Guide Page 29 Protection Threshold The estimated time in minutes before running out of free space in which the VPSA starts blocking the creation of new Volumes Snapshots and Clones on that Pool support ticket amp email are generated as well When crossing this threshold the Free Capacity State changes to Protect and the available capacity will be shown in Red o Default 60 minutes 1 hour o Minimum 1 minute Capacity consumption rate calculation window size the size of the window in minutes that is used to calculate the rate at which free space is consumed The smaller the window is the more it is impacted by intermediate changes in capacity allocations which can result from changes in workload characteristics and or creationV deletion of new Snapshots and Clones o Default 60 minutes 1 hours o Minimum 1 minute Emergency Threshold When the Pool s free capacity drops below this fixed threshold in GB the VPSA starts freeing Pool capacity by deleting older snapshots The VPSA will delete one snapshot at a time starting with the oldest snapshot until it exist the Emergency threshold i e when free capacity is greater
20. 0000112 vc O0 For confic Target iqn 2011 04 com zadarastorage vsa 00000112 1 the targe EE CHAP Username ZadaraProd Unable to Login to the target CHAP Secret tlogWUWNQjN4L More abou IPsec Key 7 AEEZS3SCFFC34B4FBC3SEOBFOS6EBDSB9 Encryption Set D Cache Size 20 GB Heartbeat 1 ok Connect me Heartbeat 2 ok e To activate the connection select the VPSA target and press the Connect button Please note that if you have multiple targets listed you can identify the VPSA target by its IQN name which is in the form of iqn 2011 04 com zadarastorage vsa xxxx and is displayed in the Controller properties page in the VPSA GUI e You may check the Enable multi path check box if you wish to use MPIO multi pathing Then click Advanced Controllers e a 8 6 EP el eh E ER Refresh CHAP Auth NFS Domain Public IPs Failover Power On Encryption Name Storage Node Management IP iSCSI IP Targets Discovery Favorite Targets volumes and Devices RADIUS Configuration Quick Connect vsa 00000112 ve 1 iadzadapp02p 172 31 240 109 To discover and log on to target using basic connection type the IP address or vsa 00000112 vc 0 iadzadappO1p 172 31 240 108 172 31 240 108 BEE Target Quick Gonnect M Discovered targets Refresh ign 2011 04 com zadarastorage vsa 00000112 1 Inactive Target name ign 2011 04 com zadarastorage vsa 00000112 1 JV Add this connection to the list of Favorite Tar
21. 42 normal Created 2013 11 20 09 45 45 Page 1 f2 gt MI e Displaying 1 12 of 15 Modified 2013 11 20 09 45 45 Submit Cancel e Alternatively you can go to The Volumes page select the Volume to be cloned press the Snapshots tab at the south panel select the desired point in time Snapshot and press the Clone button at the top left corner of the south panel e Enter the new cloned Volume name VPSA User Guide Page 50 Ge A Fa Refresh reat Delet Expand Servers Protect Capacity Status Data Type Pool 200 GB In use BLOCK pool DB 1000 GB In use File System Pool Webfiles Clone from Snapshot x You are about to create a clone of the Volume vol SQL from the Snapshot s r7 1385040642810 which was created at Page Il 191 E 2013 11 21 08 30 42 amp Details for vol SQL Please enter a name for this new Volume Properties amp Snapshots Snapshot Poli vol SQL test OK Cancel Name 5 r7 1385040942847 2013 11 21 08 35 42 norm snap 00000022 5 r7 1385040642810 1 norma snap 00000021 5 r7 1385040342769 2013 11 21 08 25 42 norma snap 00000020 s r7 1385040042733 2013 11 21 08 20 42 norma snap 0000001f sr 2013 11 21 08 15 42 norma snap 0000001e sr 2013 11 21 08 10 42 norma The newly created Clone will appear as a regular Volume in the Volume list ZS Volumes B B K a Refresh Create Delete Expand Servers Protect Name Capacity Status Data Type Pool iasa Original Volume p
22. 6 parity integrity It reads data and parity from all devices and automatically fixes any inconsistent parity This process runs automatically once a month in order to identify and handle any possible silent data integrity issues You may decide to trigger a media scan on a RAID Group beyond this once a month scan if there was an event that is suspected of risking data integrity such as the failure of two or more drives in a RAID 5 RAID status will change to Repairing X during the media scan At the end of the media scan it saves the results of the scan in an event log message Media scan cannot be aborted in the middle but it can be paused Press the Pause Media Scan button to pause the operation the Media Scan button toggles to Pause Media Scan for RAID Groups which are in media scan RAID status will change to Repairing Paused when the media scan is paused 5 6 Force Recovery Force Recovery can be issued only on Failed RAID 5 and RAID 6 RAID Groups after one or more of the failed drives have been recovered If all the drives were recovered the VPSA will have enough information to determine how to recover the RAID automatically but if one drive is permanently gone in a RAID 5 RAID Group or two drives are permanently gone in a RAID 6 RAID Group the VPSA is unable to determine if the available drives contain the most up to date data and hence cannot safely decide to automatically recover the RAID Group You can i
23. 73 VPSA User Guide Page 4 1 Preface This documentation presents information specific to Zadara Storage products The information is for reference purposes and is subject to changes without prior notice 1 1 Intended Audience This document is intended for end users and storage administrators who wish to consume Enterprise Storage as a Service via the Zadara Storage VPSA service 1 2 Document History Date Revisi Description on November 2013 A Initial revision for V2 0 Release Updated to version 13 10 content February 2014 Updates for Release 14 01 2 Introduction Virtual Private Storage Array VPSA is the first Software Defined Enterprise Storage as a Service It is an elastic and private Block and File Storage System which provides Enterprise grade data protection and data management storage services As the VPSA Administrator you will appreciate the level of control you have over the storage system while leveraging the benefits of consuming it as a service 2 1 VPSA Components 2 1 1 VPSA Management Console The VPSA Management Console is the your gateway to the Zadara Storage ecosystem through which you can create view and modify your VPSA configurations on the many different Clouds that Zadara Storage offers 2 1 2 Virtual Controller A Virtual Controller VC is a Virtual Machine with dedicated CPUs amp RAM which runs the VPSA IO stack and control stack Two VCs are paired in an Active Standby cluste
24. ARA Change Cache for ZadaraProd Please select the desired amount of cache for ZadaraProd Desired Cache Quantity 60GB 0 08 hr Le mini A we Submit Cancel PE wem Si 4 5 Managing Enterprise Suite The VPSA Enterprise Suite extends your VPSA functionality to provide enterprise level security and data management capabilities including e Data at rest Volume encryption Using user controlled encryption keys e Business continuity Zero capacity space efficient instantly available unlimited number of read only Snapshots e Test amp Dev Zero capacity space efficient instantly available read write Clones of your Volume at any point in time snapshot e Snapshot based Asynchronous Remote Mirroring Crosses regions and crosses providers for Disaster Recovery To enable or disable Enterprise Suite go to the VPSA Management Console and press the Enable Disable Enterprise Suite button VPSA Management Console Create VPSA My VPSAS Name a Management Address Drives Provider Status Refresh Delete ZadaraProd https vsa 000001 12 aws2 zadaraypsa com z D AWS US East N Virginia 2 Ready 2 re 2 ZadaraProd AWS US East N Virginia 2 Name ZadaraProd Management Address 4 Change Engine EN https vsa 000001 12 aws2 zadaravpsa com Description N A Remove Public IP IP Address 172 31 240 108 Status Ready Public IP 209 34 66 68 Add Drives Zadara Engine Basic Cache 20GB 5 Adju
25. FS shares as well check the NFS check box and select an NFS UID on the range of 1 999 999 VPSA User Guide Page 60 fs NAS Users Gei KE Refresh Create Delete Name NFS UID SMB Password Set root 0 No nobody 1000000 No Create NAS User x Username zdr smb Authentication C NFS SMB SMB Password SMB Password Confirm Create User Cancel 9 3 3 Editing SMB Users Password It is possible to edit the password of an SMB User at any time Go to NAS Users page and select Edit SMB Password e e e E 3 aP Create Delete Edit SMB Password amp Change SMB Password x New SMB Password New SMB Password Confirm Change Password fl Remove Password Cancel e To change the SMB Password enter a new SMB Password confirm the password and click the Change Password button e Ifthe User is also defined with an NFS ID you can select Remove Password to erase the user SMB password 9 4 Creating NFS Groups You can create and view NAS Groups via the NAS Groups page Please note that NAS Groups are applicable only for NFS access control To create an NFS Group go to the NFS Groups page and select Create VPSA User Guide Page 61 A NFS Groups Le e G av Refresh Create Delete Name root nogroup amp Create NFS Group x Group Name NFS GID eate Group Cancel Enter a valid NFS Group Name and a valid NFS Group ID on the range of 1 999 999 which matches the Group Name and ID
26. Group you will see a warning but you can continue the operation You can replace a drive in any RAID Group whether the drive is healthy Normal or unhealthy Failed You cannot replace a drive if the RAID Group is in Resyncing state 5 8 Shredding a Drive gt gt E Refresh Remove Replace Shred Create Raid Group Name Capacity Storage Node Type drive 020 558 GB iadzadappO05p SAS drive 021 558 GB iadzadapp03p SAS drive 022 558 GB iadzadappOip SAS drive 023 558 GB iadzadappO4p SAS drive 024 558 GB iadzadapp02p SAS Shred Disk x You are about to shred the information on drive drive 021 This option is irreversible If you click OK the data residing on this drive will be IRREVERSIBLY LOST To keep your information click Cancel OK Cancel Shredding is the process of erasing the data on a drive for security and privacy reasons by writing random data Typically you will shred a drive before returning it to the Zadara Cloud or before deleting your VPSA Shredding is applicable only on drives in Available status i e not in a RAID group VPSA User Guide Page 22 The Shredding progress appears in the drive status as Shredding X A drive cannot be removed from a VPSA while it is being shredded You need to either cancel the operation by pressing the Cancel Shred button or wait till shredding is completed Note Shredding is irreversible 5 9 Viewing Drive properties You can view the following properties and
27. IPs Assign Public IP To assign a Public IP address to your VPSA go to the VPSA Management Console and press the Assign Public IP button You can see the assigned IP address in your VPSA details in the VPSA Management Console and in the VPSA GUI under Controller gt Public IPs Remove Public IP To remove it simply click the Remove Public IP button in the VPSA Management Console Notes e Access to the VPSA GUI is blocked through the Public IP for security reasons e NATed Servers are not supported for iSCSI NFS and SMB protocols over the Public IP 4 4 Adjusting Cache Each VPSA is provisioned with an SSD Cache partition which is utilized by the VPSA for both metadata and user application data read and write caching The SSD cache partition is protected under RAID 1 where each mirror copy resides on a different SN thus ensuring Cache resilience to SN failure The VPSA SSD Cache size is elastic meaning that you can increase or decrease the SSD Cache size based on your Application Servers workload The initially assigned default SSD cache size is also the minimal cache size for a given Zadara Engine The default and maximum SSD Cache size depends on the Engine type as follows Default SSD Cache Size Max SSD Cache Size 20GB 80GB 20GB 80GB 40GB 160GB 80GB 320GB To change the SSD Cache size for your VPSA go to the VPSA Management Console and press the Adjust Cache button VPSA User Guide Page 13 ZAD
28. Mirror reconnect in both directions To break a Mirror go to the Remote Mirroring page select a Mirror and click the Break button After confirming the operation the Mirror Object in the Remote Mirroring page will disappear from the source and the destination VPSAs 10 5 3 Reconnecting a Mirror As previously described the VPSA leaves sufficient metadata on each Volume after it breaks a Mirror for future possible Reconnect of the Mirror relationship This metadata allows the VPSA to identify a remote Volume on a Remote VPSA which used to have a Mirroring relationship anytime in the past with a given Volume and find the most recent Snapshot that is in sync on both Volumes This then enables it to reconnect the Mirror relationship and resume the sync process from the most updated data set Mirror reconnect can be done in any direction regardless of the previous Mirror direction This provides the required flexibility for a DR plan In case of a suspected source site disaster you can break the Mirror assign the Destination Volume to an application server and work on the DR site Once the source site is back you can decide in which direction to resume the mirroring relationship Note When resuming Mirroring the VPSA identifies the most recent point in time Snapshot that is completely in sync on both source and destination Volumes Any data that was written on the destination Volume after this snapshot will be deleted T
29. PE re ZADARA STORAGE Zadara Storage Cloud VPSA User Guide February 2014 Revision B 2011 2014 ZADARA Storage Inc All rights reserved VPSA User Guide Page 1 Contents LE 5 1 1 Intended Audience re 5 1 2 Document History E 5 aa OJ LK EE E ne EE NE NE 5 21 PSA OM TE r r 5 2 11 PANT 5 SH K eege EE 5 2 1 3 BIL ee Ri rrr cere NN 6 2 1 4 Zadara Storage Cloud Orchestrator esereseseveververesesrserervesenesereserseresesesererserenenn 6 3 Ge SU EE EE EE 6 3 1 Registering a Zadara Account amp Creating a VPSA REENEN 6 NNM 9 3 3 Creating RAID Groups amp Pool amp Volumes n nesevrerenvvvvrenererveserervenerereerereserrenerersnnn 10 e EN E VPS AS rosarina a a aA NAE E NIAE EA ATA ETE 10 4 1 Adding and removing Disk Drives seseveeseserervesesererseneserseseservenesereesenesersenererseseseseesenn 10 42 M 11 BEE Ee 12 44 Adj sting Cache ssresianpnneeenienen ainia naonana anina ii nAn aA aia an iaeia 13 45 Managing Enterprise Suite uussansnstnensmminmemnnninminiv n den 14 AO EE Ee 15 5 Managing RAID Groups and Disks eet 15 LENNON 15 5 1 1 Understanding RAID levels EE 16 5 2 Viewing RAID Group properties esenreresesererrververesesrsererrenesererereesereneseveseeenenererersenene 17 5 3 Understanding Hot Spare Drives s mrerereseseseservereresesesesvereseneseverseresesesesesveneseneseseenenene 19 54 Managing EE Eege 20 5 5 UNN 20 Dee LG e JE NE EE 21 S JED EE eee 21 e DN a ee 22 5 9 Vi
30. Read and Write SCSI commands issued to the Drive per Second IO Time ms Average response time of all Read and Write SCSI commands issued to the Drive per Selected interval Bandwidth Total throughput in MB of Read and Write SCSI commands MB s issued to the Drive per Second Logs Displays all event logs associated with this Drive Configuring Storage Pools 6 1 Understanding Storage Pools Storage Pools are virtual entities managing storage provisioning from aggregated capacity of one or more RAID Groups pooled into a single construct with some QoS attributes Volumes are thinly provisioned allocating capacity from the Pool only when needed The Pool has an underlying block virtualization layer which maps virtual address space to physically allocated Pool space and manages sharing of Pool physical chunks between Volumes Snapshots and Clones Snapshots and Clones consume zero capacity when they are created They share the same data chunks as the Volume Anytime you actually modify the data in the Volume or in one of the Clones the data chunk is being copied on write COW in order to apply the new written data without affecting the data set of the other objects sharing the same data chunk Pools attributes define the way Volumes Snapshots and Clones are provisioned 6 2 Creating and Managing Pools 6 2 1 Creating a Pool To create a new Storage Pool press either the Create button on the Pools page or the Create Pool
31. Share on a Windows Server 1 On the Windows Server go to Computer gt Map Network Drive and Enter the SMB Export Path of the SMB share in the format lt VPSA_IP gt lt volume export_name gt You can find the SMB Export Path parameter in the VPSA GUI Volume page gt Properties tab 2 The first time you connect from a Widows Server to a VPSA share you are requested to enter an SMB User name and Password Please check Creating SMB Users for more details or use SMB guest access VPSA User Guide Page 44 Map Network Drive x r ty SI Map Network Drive What network folder would you like to map Specify the drive letter for the connection and the folder that you want to connect to Drive P Folder W4172 31 240 112 Web_files Browse Example server share W Reconnect at logon Connect using different credentials Connect to a Web site that you can use to store your documents and pictures coc To detach a Volume When you detach a Volume from a Server the server will lose access to the Volume s data recommended practice is to unmount the Volume on the Server side before detaching it on the VPSA To detach a Volume from a Server go to the Volumes Page and click the Servers gt Detach from Server s button You will be requested to select the Servers to detach this Volume Alternatively you can view the attached Servers list in the Volume s south panel select the Ser
32. a Snapsot Snapshot Policies Logs Name Status Create Policy Delete Policy Dest Delete Policy yearly Weekend snapshots Active Weekend days at midnight Keep latest 104 snapshots Keep latest 104 snapshots every 5 minutes for an hour Active Every 5 minutes Keep latest 12 snapshots Keep latest 12 snapshots Source VPSA manages the Mirror Snapshots Policies therefore modifications of the Mirror Snapshots Policies are allowed only on the Source VPSA The source VPSA will update the Remote VPSA regarding any change in the Dest Delete Policy You may make modifications while the Policy is active on a Mirror and changes will be effective immediately For example if you change the policy to retain fewer snapshots some older snapshots will be deleted immediately The following info is provided per Snapshot Policy on the Source VPSA e Create Policy Minimum time between Snapshots e Delete Policy How many snapshots to retain on Source Volume e Dest Delete Policy How many snapshots to retain on the Destination Volume The following info is provided per Snapshot Policy on the Destination VPSA e Create Policy N A VPSA User Guide Page 72 e Delete Policy How many snapshots to retain on the Destination Volume This value is identical to the Dest Delete Policy on the Source VPSA e Dest Delete Policy N A Metering The Mirror Metering Chart provides live info of the Mirror transfer throughput associated with the se
33. ace efficient Use Case Transactional Workload with Repository type workload Snapshots e Large Pools e Many snapshots to keep e Cached Use SSD to Cache Servers Reads and Writes o All Pools that are marked as Cached share the VPSA Cache VPSA User Guide Page 25 o Write Cache is mostly efficient on random writes intensive workloads o Ifthe Pool consists of SSD drives this option will be disabled e Striped This check box is enabled only when you select two or more RAID Groups Striping over RAID 1 RAID 5 and RAID 6 creates RAID 10 RAID 50 and RAID 60 type of configuration Use striping to improve performance of random workloads since the IOs will be distributed and all drives will share the workload 6 2 2 Expanding Pool Capacity To Expand the Pool press the Expand button on the Pools page z 1 a A ts Sa ST SH Refresh Create Delete Expand Enable Cache Create Volume Create Share Name Status RAID Groupts Available Capacity Type Pool SQLDB Normal Multiple 3 S LITB LITB Transactional Workloads Ae Expand Pool stripe xX IGB Transactional Workloads Additional OGB Transactional Workloads Capacity GB Name Protection Status Available ET Ril RAIDI Normal 310 GB Ir R12 RAIDI Normal 330 GB Cancel You can expand a Pool using capacity from any RAID Group If the RAID Group from which the new capacity is added doesn t match the protection type or drive type of the existing capacity you ll se
34. ame or email address and the temporary passcode to enter the VPSA GUI You will be immediately prompted to set a new password for your VPSA User account 3 2 The VPSA GUI 4 Enterprise Suite enabled p E ni gt es T o NE 1 Refresh Replace shred Create Raid Group Ka RAID Groups l Capacity Storage Node e Status Pools j Volumes 558 GB iadzadappO5p Available 558 GB iadzadappo3p Available 558 GB iadzadappO0ip Available iadzadappo4p vailable E Servers 558 GB iadzadappo4 Availabl e 558 GB i app p Available wei Controllers app05p vailable 3 3 Data Protection 4 Available 4 E Remote VPSAs CH Bai Remote Mirroring Snapshot Policies Page 1 of 1 Displaying topics 1 8 of amp Sj Access Control gt Details for drive 008 amp Users Gia NAS Users volume 00000854 amp NAS Groups drive 008 GEN Support Capacity 558 GB w Event Log Storage Node iadzadappo3p Type SAS ae Forums Status Available Tickets RAID Group in Follow Us Usage Available Added 2013 11 17 01 31 04 Modified 2013 11 17 01 31 04 The VPSA GUI provides full management and control of your VPSA It contains the following main components as numbered in the above screenshot 1 Main navigation left panel Traverse through the various VPSA entities The selected entity is highlighted 2 The center pane Displays a list of objects from the selected entity type e g drives in the above scree
35. ation VPSA for mirrored Volumes optional defaults to the above value Create Cancel To Edit a Snapshot Policy e Go to the Snapshot Polices page select the Policy and press the Edit button e You can edit all of the Snapshot Policy s attributes Name Creation Policy Deletion Policy and Allow Empty Snapshots rules e Note You can modify a Snapshot Policy even when it is active on one or more Volumes The modifications in the Policy s behavior will be reflected on all relevant Volumes e Ifyou reduce the number of snapshots to retain for a Snapshot Policy that is active on one or mode Volumes it will trigger the deletion of all snapshots that no longer meet the new Deletion Policy To Apply a Snapshot Policy on a Volume e Goto the Volumes page select the Volume and select Protect gt Attach Snapshot Policy from the menu e Select the Snapshot Policy to apply to the Volume and press the Submit button amp Volumes z CA w B 8 a Gc Refresh Create Delete Expand Servers Protect Name Capacity Create Sn apshot Data Type Pool vol SQL 200 GB core BLOCK pool_DB web files 1000 GB Beste File System Pool Webfiles Reconnect Mirror amp Attach Snapshot Policy Page 1 of 1 D 2 az Apply Snapshot Policy to Volume x 3 Details for vol SQL Name Create Policy Delete Policy Properties a Snapshots a Snapshot Policies Servers Metering Hourly Snapshots for a Day Every hour Keep latest 24 snapshots Apply Snapsh
36. ation Volume or the Mirror i e you can delete both the Destination Volume and the Mirror and the Cloned Volume will not be affected To Clone a Mirrored Destination Volume go to the Remote Mirroring page on the Destination VPSA Select a Mirror and click the Clone button English v Enterprise Suite B ZadaraDR 13 10 1044 19 E Remote Mirroring 37 Resources e gt e z Drives be or GE e LY Refresh Create Reconnect Pause Break Clone RAID Groups Mirror Name Status Source YPSA Destination VPSA RPO Set Mirror SQL Ready to sync Syncing 6 ZadaraProd ZadaraDR 2013 11 24 08 41 00 ts cols Volumes BR Servers Clone x ee Controllers Clone Name Vol GO DR 2013 11 24 07 20 58 5 C Name Timestamp Status E Data Protection x S EE Page 1 of 1 ei E s r8 1385305558675 2013 11 24 07 05 58 normal Displaying EI Remote VPSAs CH Details for Mirror SQL s r8 1385305858730 2013 11 24 07 10 58 normal TE Remote Mirroring E s r8 1385306158804 2013 11 24 07 15 58 normal Properties Snapsot Snap a snapshot Peles VI s r8 1385306458864 2013 11 24 07 20 58 normal ID j dstjvpsa 00000006 s r8 1385306758915 2013 11 24 07 25 58 normal 33 Access Control Name Mirror SQL E s r8 1385307058971 2013 11 24 07 30 59 normal Users Status Ready to sync Syncing I F s r8 1385307359042 2013 11 24 07 35 59 normal amp NAS Users Current Snapshot s re 1385312220414 T s r8 1385307659079 2013 11 24 07 40 59 n
37. button on the RAID Groups page You will see the following dialog appear VPSA User Guide Page 24 4 Create Pool x Name Pool SAP Raid Group s 2 Name Protection Status Available vi Ril RAID 1 Normal 556 GB J R12 RAID 1 Normal 556 GB Capacity GB 1112 r Type Transactional Workloads Repository Storage Cached d Striped d Create Cancel Select the Pool attributes e Display Name Can be modified anytime later e Raid Group s selection Select one or more RAID Groups from which protected storage capacity will be allocated for this Pool e Capacity The Pool s physical capacity in GB By default the capacity is the aggregated capacities of all the selected RAID Groups but you do not have to allocate full RAID Groups If you define smaller capacity than is available in the selected RAID groups the capacity will be evenly distributed between the RAID Group e Type The VPSA supports two types of Pools Transactional amp Repository Pools The difference is the chunk size used for the mapping of virtual LBAs to Physical Drive addresses The following table describes the tradeoff of each type and the recommended use cases __ Transactional Pool Repository Pol gt Chunk 256KB 1MB Fo Faster COW operation e Smaller metadata size Space efficiency on e Sequential workload Random writes to performance is similar to Snapshots transactional Pools Cons Increased metadata size e Slower COW operation e Less sp
38. cket e Go to the Tickets page and click Create e Enter the Ticket Subject and description and press Submit VPSA User Guide Page 73 e A ticket will be created and a set of logs ZSnap will be uploaded to the Zadara portal for analysis of the issue Create Ticket x Subject Description Submit Cancel To Manage Support Tickets e You can view the list of open support tickets displaying the ticket number date status and subject per ticket e You can Comment on a ticket or Add Zsnap to an existing ticket e Finally if you feel an issue is resolved you can close it VPSA User Guide Page 74
39. d and striped Normal Alert Protected Type e Transactional Workloads e Repository Storage Status e Stripe Size Normal Creating Deleting Partiall Failed At least one of the underlying RAID groups is failed or the Pool metadata cannot be initialized at Start Of the Day Applicable only for Pools of Mode Striped i e when data is striped between 2 or more RAID groups The Stripe size is always 64KB Cached Yes No Indicates whether the Pool utilizes SSD for read write caching Raid Group s RAID Group name or Multiple X where X denotes the number of RAID Groups in the Pool Created Date amp time when the object was created VPSA User Guide Page 27 Modified Date amp time when the object was last modified Alerts Alerts tab lists the Pool Protection Mechanism configurable attributes See Managing Pool Alerts for more details You can modify the following attributes e Alert Mode Threshold Alert me when it is estimated that the Pool will be at full capacity in X Minutes o Default Value 360 minutes e Protection Mode Threshold Do not allow new Volumes Shares or Snapshots to be created when it is estimated that the Pool will be at full Capacity in X Minutes o Default Value 60 minutes e Calculation Window Calculate the estimated time until the Pool is full based on new capacity usage in the previous X minutes o Default Value 60 minutes e Emergency Mode Thresho
40. d snapshots Active Weekend days at midnight Keep latest 104 snapshots Keep latest 104 snapshots every 5 minutes for an hour Active Every 5 minutes Keep latest 12 snapshots Keep latest 12 snapshots List of the Snapshot Policies which are attached to the selected Volume The following Properties are provided per Snapshot Policy Name Display Name Status Active or Paused Type The VPSA application controlling the Policy VPSA User Guide Page 54 e Snapshot Manager e Remote Mirroring Create Policy Frequency of Snapshot creation Delete Policy Number of Snapshots to retain Dest Delete Number of Snapshots to retain on Remote Mirror Policy destination Volume For more details on Snapshot Policies management check here Servers Lists the Servers to which the Volume is attached For block Volumes the Lun Number associated with each Server is displayed Metering The Metering Charts provide live metering of the IO workload associated with the selected Volume The charts display the metering data as it was captured in the past 20 Intervals An Interval length can be one of the following 1 Second 1 Minute 10 Minutes or 1 Hour The Auto button lets you see continues updated live metering info refreshed every 3 sec The following charts are displayed IOPs The Number of Read and Write SCSI commands issued to the selected Volume from all attached Servers IO Time ms Average response time of all Read and Wri
41. der to Full Control for Everyone from your Windows dient You can do this by right clicking on your files and folder and selecting the security tab After joining to Active Directory domain you can reset the permission to the desired domain user or group Press OK to continue OK Cancel NOTE The joining of the VPSA to the active Directory may fail if the time on both the VPSA and the Active Directory Domain Controller is out of sync by more than afew minutes Sync the time and try again Different time zones are not an issue 9 5 2 Leaving an Active Directory To leave the Active Directory Go to VPSA GUI gt Domain Security and click the Leave button Join amp Leave are a toggled button 2 Domain Security Va Refresh E Domain Domain NetBIOS Name DNS zadara ZADARA 10 0 0 254 Confirm Username Password x Administrator Administrator Name Administrator ITT D Password Submit Cancel Enter the Domain Administrator s Name and Password and press submit confirm the following warning message requesting to ensure proper permissions of files and folders created using AD before leaving it Confirmation Required x i Leaving the Active Directory domain can cause permission problems with files and folders created J before leaving the Active Directory domain Before leaving the Active Directory domain set permission on your files and folder to Full Control for Everyone from your Windows dient You can do t
42. e Remote Volume which was written after the last sync point and which needs to be deleted to reconnect the Mirror o Last Sync The timestamp of the most recent Snapshot Any data written on the Source Volume after that timestamp will be synchronized to the remote Volume o Snaps to Del Number of snapshots to delete on the Remote Volume Please note that it is possible that empty Snaps need to be deleted while no new data is lost on the Remote Volume Reconnect Mirror x Suggested Remote Volumes Page 1 of 1 re Displaying 1 1 of 1 Continue Cancel e Press Continue e Enter a name for the new Mirror e Select Snapshot Policies for the new Mirror e Press Submit to Reconnect the Mirror Reconnect Mirror x Mirror Name Mirror SQL DR to Src Mirroring Policies Name Create Policy Delete Policy J Hourly Snapshots For a Day Every hour Keep latest 24 snapshots Daily Snapshots for a Week Once per day at midnight Keep latest 7 snapshots Weekly Snapshots for a Year Every Sunday at midnight Keep latest 53 snapshots Page 1 of 1 Displaying 1 3 of 3 Submit Cancel Note Reconnect Mirror is blocked in the following cases e The Destination Volume is attached to a Server e The Destination Volume has active Snapshot Policies 10 6 Viewing Remote Mirror Properties Remote Mirroring Page displays the list of Remote Mirrors that the VPSA participates in either as the Source or the Destination Mirrors are not symmetric and hence the
43. e VPSAS amp Details for vol SQL E Remote Mirroring Snapshots Snapshot Policies B Servers Metering gi Logs 7 ID volunme 00000002 Snapshot Policies Name yol SQL d 37 Access Control e Virtual Capacity 200 GB ei Users Status In use nasu Data Type BLOCK amp NAS Groups Pool pool_DB 353 Support Server s AMAZONS 1F01P4M w Event Log Provisioning Thin x Forums WWID 6665393763653831 Encrypted No Tickets Created 2013 11 20 09 45 45 in Weg Us Modified 2013 11 20 09 45 45 Properties Each Volume includes the following properties Property Description vm An internally assigned unique ID User assigned name Can be modified anytime Virtual Capacity Capacity of the Volume as seen by the attached Servers Available Capacity Free capacity of the NAS Share Mapped Capacity The used capacity allocated from the Pool of the Volume excluding its Snapshots and Clones Status Creating Initializing Volume s metadata Deleting In process of deleting the Volume and updating data chunks references Partial Failed The Volume is inaccessible due to lower construct failure on Pool or RAID Group level Available The Volume is healthy but is not attached to any Server In use The Volume is healthy and is attached to one or more Servers Data Type Block for Block Volume File system for NAS Shares The Pool name where this Volume is provisioned Server s Server Name attached to the Volume
44. e a warning message pop up asking you to confirm the mismatch which may impact the pool performance and protection QoS 6 2 3 Enabling Cache CA CA ai be ts AG 0 x N Refresh Create Delete Expand Enable Cache Create Volume Create Share It is possible to enable Caching on non cached Pools One use case to leverage this capability is to enable Caching only after the initial copy of the data into the VPSA The initial copy typically generates sequential write IO workload where non cached Pools are most efficient Once the initial copy is completed enable caching on the Pool if you expect more random type of IO workload 6 3 Viewing Pool properties The Pools details are shown in the following south panel tabs VPSA User Guide Page 26 Properties Each Pool includes the following properties An internally assigned unique ID Name User assigned name Can be modified anytime Capacity Total available capacity for user data amp system metadata Available Available free capacity to be used for User data VPSA Capacity reserves 2 of the total Pool capacity for system metadata If the VPSA needs more capacity for the metadata very rare scenario it will be consumed from the available capacity Mode Free Capacity State R Simple There are one or more RAID Groups concatenated Striped There are two or more RAID Groups which are striped Mixed There are two or more RAID Groups which are concatenate
45. emote VPSA ZadaraDR Ei Remote Mirroring Properties Remote Pool Snapshot Policies ID Name Total Capacity Free Capacity Version Name pool DB DR 1 1 TB 1 1 TB 2 3 Access Control Virtual Capacity pool webfiles DR 1 1 TB 1 1 TB 2 users C Status Mirroring Policies NAS Users Data Type Name Create Policy Delete Policy Dst Delete Policy R NAS Groups SS Hourly Snapshots for a Day Every hour Keep latest 24 sn Keep latest 24 sn pol e Daily Snapshots for a Week Once per day at Keep latest 7 sna Keep latest 7 sna Server s 33 Support s F Weekly Snapshots for a Year Every Sunday at Keep latest 53 sn Keep latest 53 sn v Event Log Provisioning 4 yearly Weekend snapshots Weekend days at Keep latest 104 s Keep latest 104s E For m WWID VI every 5 minutes for an hour Every 5 minutes Keep latest 12 sn Keep latest 12 sn Encrypted Page 1 of 1 Displaying 1 5 of 5 Tickets Created in Follow Us Modified Submit Cancel Provide the following attributes to in the Creation dialog e Mirror Name e Remote Volume Name You can leave it empty in which case the remote Volume name will be identical to the mirrored Volume name e Remote VPSA Select any of the discovered remote VPSAs Once a remote VPSA is selected the Remote Pool list is populated accordingly e Remote Pool Choose the Pool on the DR VPSA where the remote Volume and its snapshots will be provisioned
46. eral IPsec Connect using Local adapter Default v Initiator IP Defaut DI E fault v Connect To Targe Target portal IP sake Target name CRC Checksum ign 2011 04 com I Data digest I Header digest V Add this connec This will make th IV Enable CHAP log on connection ever e Page 1 of 1 ROTE wma V Enable multi pat CHAP helps ensure connection security by providing authentication between a target and Details for vsa 00000112 vc 0 ani Initiator Advanced To use specify the same name and CHAP secret that was configured on the target for this Properties E Metering vg Logs initiator The name will default to the Initiator Name of the system unless another name is specified ID ysa 00000112 vc 0 s Name Target iqn 2011 04 com zadarastorage vsa 00000112 1 CHAP Username ZadaraProd CHAP Secret logVWVUNOIN4L 7 AEE283CFFC34B4FBCJEDBF99G6EBD9B9 IPsec Key Cache Size 20 GB Heartbeat 1 ok Heartbeat 2 ok Software Versinn 12 19 1944 10 Target secret T Perform mutual authentication To use mutual CHAP either specify an initiator secret on the Configuration page or use RADIUS J Use RADIUS to generate user authentication credentials Use RADIUS to authenticate target credentials Cancel Apply e Inthe Targets tab you ll see that the VPSA iSCSI target has moved from Inactive to Connected status A new Server is created automatically in
47. ers xX Metering w Logs Apply Snapshot Policy Pause Policy Name Create Policy Delete Policy Hourly Snapshots For a Day Active Every hour Keep latest 24 snapshots Active Once per day at midnight Keep latest 7 snapshots Active Weekend days at midnight Keep latest 104 snapshots Active Every 5 minutes Keep latest 12 snapshots Pause Resume a Snapshot Policy You can pause an active Volume Snapshot Policy New Snapshots will not be created Existing Snapshots are not affected Pausing a Snapshot Policy on one Volume has no impact on other Volumes that have this Policy active as well e To pause a Snapshot Policy go to the Volumes page select the Volume and press the Snapshot Policies tab on the south panel to view the Volume s active Snapshot Policies e Select the Snapshot Policy and press the Pause Policy button on the top left corner of the south panel e The Policy will move to Paused status e To resume a Policy The Pause Resume button toggles according to the Policy status Select a Policy in Paused state and press the Resume Policy button The Policy Status will move to active amp Details for vol SQL Properties Snapshots Snapshot Policies EA Servers amp Metering Logs Apply Snapshot Policy Pause Policy Detach Policy Name Status Create Policy Delete Policy Dest Delete Policy Hourly Snapshots for a Day Active Every hour Keep latest 24 snapshots Keep latest 24 snapshots Daily Snapshots For a Week Once per day at mid
48. ersenererresesersenenereeseneversenenesenne 51 8 7 Viewing Volume Properties EEN 52 OG EN NNN 55 9 MN L 56 91 Adding amp Deleting VsersLvuvrvv44vv4vddsrsseee een 56 9 2 Managing User PasswWOordsS srursesrreresrsrveesesrverseneservesesssensenesersenesessenenereesenesessenenenenne 57 9 3 Managing NAS Users Access Control seet 59 9 3 1 Creatine NES RE 59 Jor Creating SMB SEE NE 60 9 3 3 Editing SMB Users PaSSWord mrssesesrnesesrserseneversenesesseseneseeseneversenesersesenesensenn 61 TE ENN 61 9 5 Enabling Active Directory Authentication msssvrseseeresesesveresevereseresveseresenne 62 9 5 1 Joining the VPSA to Active Directory kee 62 9 5 2 Leaving an Active Directory m ssrvressseesereriiererersseieeen 63 10 Managing Remote Mirroring osiris nieee en rnanera iniae EEEa eaea 64 VPSA User Guide Page 3 10 1 Connect to a remote VPS AEN 64 10 2 Viewing remote NEE 65 VS EMNE Naken 66 10 4 Pause amp Continue Remote Mirror rsrrrrvrererererereseseseserererereserrsrerereseseseseseseerenn 67 10 5 Managing Mirror LieoydeLuLv54v44v4sssesmsarmseeemnensen 67 10 5 1 Clone Destination Volume for Dev amp Test of Remote Mirror ss 68 10 5 2 Breaking Eege 68 10 5 3 Reconnecting a Mirror sssssrsssssesesvereseserveserevvesesesersenerereesesereeseseseesenenesr 69 10 6 Viewing Remote Mirror Properties ENEE 70 11 Managing TechSupport Tickets senreserrversenerervesesrsersenesersenesersenesereeseneversenerereesenereenenn
49. ewing Drive propertleS ssrsrssesesesrsrsrsrsesesevrvsvevevsesenenenenenenenenenesesevevsrserererenenenenene 23 6 Configuring Storage TE 24 ol Understanding Storage Pools usteet see 24 VPSA User Guide Page 2 6 2 Creating and Managing Pools ieseseserrvervrresesererereereseseseverrereneseveververesenesesersesenererersenene 24 6 2 1 GE ee wana ewan een eae neecu aunt 24 6 2 2 Expanding Pool EC e 26 6 2 3 EHDIN Or el semen ee eens ae ete arene eee EE 26 69 EE 26 6 4 Managing PLN 29 Managing SCL VOCUS EEE 30 MSN 30 7 1 1 Adding a Server automatically iismeseseiiserseeserseieseive 30 7 1 2 Adding a Network Range imsesreresrsesevresvsrsvenesesnesenesrevenesvereseseseeseneseesesesesveneseenenr 33 7 1 3 Adding Server manually tee 33 7 1 4 Configure Server Attributes Jeep 37 EC AE Fe Die ae 38 8 Managing Volumes Snapshots and Clones reeseseverreseservenesevvesesrsersenesereeseseseeseneressenene 40 8 1 Creating and Deleting a Volume 40 8 2 Attaching amp detaching Volumes to Servers uu essences 43 do PV UNE 45 8 4 Managing Snapshots and Snapshot Policies r remsrsrversenervrreseervesesereesesesersenenessnne 46 8 4 1 Manual creation amp deletion of Snapshots nesesrveversesenrvrvevsenenerevevevsenenenevsne 46 8 4 2 Managing Snapshot POlicies mmsesesesrveesesrverseneverveseservenenereesenseversenesereesenerersenn 47 0 9 VU 49 8 6 Managing Encrypted Volumes rreseesesrsevvesesrverseneservesesev
50. g Snapshots and Snapshot Policies Snapshots are Read Only representations of the Volume s data set at a given point in time Snapshots are very efficiently thinly provisioned sharing all the unmodified data chunks with the Volume Write ordering is ensured at Snapshot creation i e all writes which were acknowledged to the Server by the VPSA before the Snapshot was created will be contained in the Snapshot s data set 8 4 1 Manual creation amp deletion of Snapshots To manually create a Snapshot e Goto the Volumes page press the Protect button and select Create Snapshot S Volumes 1 1 w Ev ye 55 CH NE GG x Refresh Create Delete Expand Servers Protect vol SQL 200 GB Clone web files 1000 GB Reconnect Mirror E Create Mirror Attach Snapshot Policy Enter a Unique Snapshot name and confirm the operation To manually delete a Snapshot e Goto the Volumes page select the Volume and view the Snapshots south tab to display the list of snapshots associated with this Volume Select the snapshot to be deleted in the Snapshot tab and press the Delete Snapshot button at the top left corner of the south panel VPSA User Guide Page 46 Name Capacity Status Data Type Pool vol SQL 200 GB Available BLOCK pool DB 1000 GB In use File System Pool Webfiles Delete Snapshot s x YD Delete Snapshot s s r4 1385010041372 Yes No ID Name Timestamp Status e The snapshot will move to a Dele
51. gets This will make the system automatically attempt to restore the connection every time this computer restarts Details for vsa 00000112 yc 0 t and Disconnect Properties ET Metering Logs A E e SIONS Properties select the target and click Properties ID vsa 00000112 vc 0 For configuration of devices associated with a target select Devices Target ign 2011 04 com zadarastorage vsa 00000112 1 the target and then click Devices CHAP Username ZadaraProd CHAP Secret tlogWUNGQjNA4L More about basic iSCSI connections and targets IPsec Key 7 AEE283CFFC34B4FBCJEOBF99BEBD9BO Encryption Set 0 Cache Size 20 GB Heartbeat 1 ok OK Cancel Apply VPSA User Guide Page 35 e Check the Enable CHAP log on check box and enter the CHAP Username and Target Secret You can retrieve those values from the VPSA GUI under the Controllers page in the properties tab Press OK to confirm the operation Controllers e m i 8 m E op w r o A iSCSI Initiator Properties x Refresh Failover CHAP Auth NFS Domain Public IPs Power On Encryption Name Storage Node Management IP iSCSI IP Targets Discovery Favorite Targets Volumes and Devices RADIUS Configuration i Quick Connect vsa 000001 12 vc 1 iadzadapp02p 172 31 240 109 To discover and log on to a target using a basic connection type the IP address or vsa 00000112 ve 0 iadzadappD1p 172 31 240 108 172 31 240 108 PE LM Ma Re Advanced Settings 20x Gen
52. gs Displays all event logs associated with this RAID Group 5 3 Understanding Hot Spare Drives Refresh Create Delete Force Recover Media Scan Sync Speed Create Pool When creating a RAID Group you can decide whether youd like to allocate hot spare drives to the RAID Group or not You can change this selection at any time by issuing Add Spare and Remove Spare on a selected RAID Group in the VPSA RAID Group GUI page Allocating a Hot Spare Drive for a RAID Group allows for immediate and automated drive replacement with no human intervention once the VPSA determines that the drive has failed To prevent drive replacement and RAID rebuild process due to intermediate failures like an SN reboot the VPSA tries to recover the drive for 30 minutes before declaring it Failed VPSA User Guide Page 19 If you choose not to allocate a hot spare drive to your RAID group you can still replace a Failed drive with any Available Drive not used in any other RAID Group within the VPSA This process can be executed manually or automated via the VPSA REST APIs Simply identify the failed drive issue the Replace command and select the available drive to use for the replacement For more details check here 5 4 Managing Sync Speed Q E E B E Refresh Create Delete Force Recover Media Scan E Ko Add Spare Remove Spare Create Pool RAID Group Sync Speed controls the rate with which data is synchronized during a Rebui
53. he VPSA Management Console select the VPSA and then press the Add drives button dam ZADARA Add Drives to ZadaraProd Please select the drives you would like to add to ZadaraProd 5 600GB SAS 10000 RPM 0 22 hr 10 1000GB NL SAS 7200 RPM 0 11 hr Submit Cancel K sse Select the number of drives from each available drive type you wish to add to your VPSA and press Submit This operation requires the approval of the Zadara Storage Cloud Admin Once approved you ll see the number of drives in the VPSA Management Console update accordingly and if you refresh the Drives page in the VPSA GUI the new drives will be displayed VPSA User Guide Page 10 You remove unused drives in status Available from within the VPSA Go to the VPSA GUI gt Drive page select the drive you wish to remove and press the Remove button Ga Ke E Refresh Replace Shred Create Raid Group Name Capacity Storage Node Type status drive 000 558 GB Confirm drive 001 558 GB i l le gt This operation will remove the drives s drive 002 558 GB drive 008 drive 003 558 GB le re you sure drive 006 558 GB le Yes No drive 007 558 GB EES Je drive 008 558 GB iadzadapp03p SAS Available drive 009 558 GB iadzadappOip SAS Available If you wish to remove a drive which is part of a RAID Group you need first to replace it with another drive as described here 4 2 Managing Zadara Engines The Zadara Eng
54. his by right dicking on your files and folder and selecting the security tab After leaving the Active Directory domain you can reset the permission to the desired local user or group Press OK to continue OK Cancel VPSA User Guide Page 63 10 Managing Remote Mirroring VPSA Asynchronous Remote Mirroring provides the ability to replicate your VPSA s data asynchronously to a different VPSA either locally within the same Zadara Cloud or remotely to a VPSA located in a remote region or even a different cloud provider Asynchronous Mirroring doesn t impact IO response time from the Server perspective as the Server IO returns immediately after being written to the local VPSA storage Later the data is synchronized to the Remote VPSA in the background The VPSA Remote Mirroring is Snapshot based meaning that only modified data chunks between two point in time Snapshots are synchronized This has some major advantages e Ifa file block was modified several times between two consecutive snapshots only the last change will be synchronized thus saving bandwidth e Snapshots are crash consistent thus at the Remote Site you always have crash consistent point in time data set of your application e You can easily create many Read Write Clones of your remote data at various point in time snapshots for Test amp Dev The VPSA manages checkpoints to track the sync progress within a Volume Snapshot In case of a transport failure l
55. ide the Snapshoot Ready to sync Syncing X Same as Syncing but at the destination VPSA Return Point Objective This is the timestamp of the most recent fully synchronized Snapshot Date amp time when the Mirror was created Modified Date amp time when the Mirror was last modified Source VPSA Provider The name of the Cloud Provider where the source VPSA resides Source VPSA VPSA Source VPSA name Source VPSA Pool Pool name where the Source Volume is provisioned This parameter is available only at VPSA User Guide Page 71 Source VPSAN Volume Source Mirror Volume name Destination The name of the Cloud Provider where the VPSAN Provider destination VPSA resides Destination VPSA VPSA Destination VPSA name Destination Pool name where the destination Volume is VPSA Provider provisioned Destination VPSA Pool Destination Mirror Volume name Snapshots Lists the point in time Snapshots of the Mirror on this VPSA Please note that Mirror supports retaining different numbers of Snapshots on the source and the destination VPSAs Each VPSA will display its own managed list If you retain many Snapshots you may want to use the Snapshot Filtering tool to find a specific Snapshot For more details check here Snapshot Policies List of active Snapshot Policies used by this Mirror to manage Snapshots on the source Volume and the destination Volume of the Mirror E Details for Mirror Vol SQL Properties
56. ine failure VPSA failure etc the VPSA has a clear checkpoint where to resume the sync Remote VPSA communication is strongly authenticated and secured using cryptographic protocols that are designed to provide communication security over the Internet For efficient bandwidth utilization Mirrored data is compressed before being shipped to the remote VPSA in different region You can establish a many to many remote mirroring relationship for different Volumes between different VPSAs i e a VPSA can mirror Volumes to many remote VPSAs and be at the same time the Destination VPSA for other Volumes in any other VPSA 10 1 Connect to a remote VPSA The first step for building a DR plan is to establish a trusted relationship between your VPSAs If the VPSAs are located in different Zadara Storage Clouds you will need to first assign each VPSA a Public IP See here for more details Go to the Remote VPSAs page and click the Discover button VPSA User Guide Page 64 ZadaraProd 13 10 1044 19 S Remote VPSAs Sj Resources e sy Drives bg r s geg LY Refresh Discover Updat Delete RAID Groups ID Name Provider ts Pools z volumes g Servers Discover Remote PSA x Controllers Remote VPSA IP Address Page 38 102 162 129 Discover remote VPSA through Public IP Ev Username yair E Remote PSAs p Remote Mirroring Password essee amp Snapshot Policies Submit Cancel 33 Access Control
57. ines define the compute resources that are dedicated to your VPSA Those resources are not shared with any other VPSA or tenant within the Zadara Storage Cloud The following Zadara Engines are defined Zadara Engine Type Dedicated compute resources 1 CPU 4 GB RAM 2 CPU 8 GB RAM 4 CPU 16 GB RAM 8 CPU 32 GB RAM Each VPSA is provisioned with an SSD Cache partition to be used for both metadata and user application data read and write caching The SSD cache partition is protected under RAID 1 where each mirror copy resides on a different SN thus ensuring Cache resilience to SN failure Each Engine type comes with a default SSD Cache partition size You can request additional SSD capacity for caching For more details see Adjusting Cache The default SSD cache size is as follows Zadara Engine Type SSD Cache Size 20GB 20GB 40GB 80GB The Zadara Engine type also defines the maximum number of drives that can be provisioned to a VPSA VPSA User Guide Page 11 Engine Type Maximum of drives Baby P Note Downgrading a VPSA engine type is prohibited if it exceeds the maximum number of drives limitation of the target Engine Type To change the Zadara Engine type press the button in the VPSA Management Console ZADARA Upgrade VPSA Zadara Engine ZadaraProd Your VPSA is currently Basic Please select the VPSA engine type you would like to upgrade to Select Zadara Engine Boost 4 CPUs 16GB RAM
58. info displayed is slightly different between Mirrors which the VPSA is the source of and those that it is the destination of Select a Mirror and check the detailed information in the following south panel tabs VPSA User Guide Page 70 EE English Enterprise Suite enabled fl ZadaraProd 13 10 1044 19 E Remote Mirroring JJ Resources ez ez Led Ka f Ee Ed ai Drives a F Refresh Create Reconnec t Pause Break one g RAID Groups Mirror Name Status Source VPSA Destination PSA RPO p Za 2013 11 24 10 40 59 to ole Volum BW Servers Page 1 f1 D Displaying 1 1 of 1 we Controllers E Details for Mirror Vol SQL 343 Data Protection Properties Snapsot Snapshot Policies Metering Logs WE wi Remote VPSAs ID stcjvpsa OO000001 Name Mirror Vol SOL Status Syncing 31 Current Snapshot s r8 1385307959168 RPO 2013 11 24 10 40 59 Created 2013 11 24 08 26 03 Modified 2013 11 24 10 45 59 Source PSA Provider aws2 VPSA ZadaraProd Pool pool DB Volume vol SQL Destination YPSA Provider aws3 VPSA ZadaraDR Pool pool_DB_DR Voli woe tial CA ND Properties Each Remote Mirror includes the following properties m An internally assigned unique ID User assigned name Can be modified anytime Status Idle Mirror has nothing to Sync Failed Paused Syncing X Transferring the modified data of the Current Snapshot to the remote Volume X stands for the syncing location ins
59. ing the previous token and any sessions using it Go to the Users page and press the Reset My Access Key button VPSA User Guide Page 58 f Users e e Zei Refresh Add User Delete User Reset Password Change My Password e KN Reset My Access key Username Email Role liran liran staging zadarastorage com Admin useri user 1 zadarastorage com User vv Properties Username liran Email liran staging zadarastorage com Role Admin 9 3 Managing NAS Users Access Control 9 3 1 Creating NFS Users By default root user and group at the NFS client are mapped to root user and group in the VPSA NFS server All other client side users are mapped to user nobody and group nogroup In order to set a basic NFS authentication so that users and groups at the client will be mapped to the corresponding users and groups at the VPSA NFS server perform the following steps e Goto VPSA GUI gt Controllers and press the NFS Domain button The NFS Domain dialog will appear Controllers Gei w i wd Si lt lt e Refresh Failover CHAP Auth NFS Domain Public IPs Power On Encryption Name Storage Node Management IP iSCSI IP vsa 00000113 vc 1 iadzadapp02p 172 31 240 113 vsa 00000113 vc 0 iadzadappO03p 172 31 240 112 172 31 240 112 NFS Domain x Update Close e Enter NFS domain name identical to the domain name set in the Client and press the Update button Typically the default domain name on the Linux
60. is password in the future If it does and you are Unable to produce your password YOU WILL PERMANENTLY LOSE ACCESS TO YOUR ENCRYPTED DATA and there would be NO WAY FOR US TO RECOVER YOUR DATA V By submitting this form you acknowledge that you understand that it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO SAVE THIS PASSWORD and that failure to do so can result in PERMANENT LOSS OF ACCESS TO YOUR ENCRYPTED DATA You also understand that there is a chance you will required to enter the password to access to your encrypted data Submit Cancel Store your Master Encryption Password in a secured place To create an Encrypted Volume follow the steps in section 8 1 Creating and Deleting a Volume Encrypted Volumes are displayed with the icon 8 7 Viewing Volume Properties The Volumes Page displays the list of Volumes Block and NAS in the VPSA Select a Volume and see its detailed information in the following south panel tabs VPSA User Guide Page 52 English Enterprise Suite enabled I Resources p Dri ai Ev S m OG sep Refresh Create Delet Expand Servers Protect 5 RAID Groups Name Capacity Status Data Type Pool Server 5 Pool vol 5QL 200 GB In use BLOCK pool DB AMAZONA 1FO1PAM to ols Web_files 1000 GB In use File System Pool Webfiles AMAZONA 1FO1PAM vol SQL test 200 GB Available BLOCK pool DB Web logs Ea 250 GB Available File System Pool Webfiles P fal D Displaying 1 4 of 4 347 Data Protection jell P Remot
61. ish Fi ZadaraProd 13 10 1044 19 E Remote Mirroring 343 Resources ech 7 gt gt a gt a Drives en a ws ww gt Refresh Create Reconnect Continue Break 5 RAID Groups Mirror Name Status Source YPSA Destination YPSA a Mirror Vol SOL ZadaraProd ZadaraDR Le ools volumes servers Confirm Continue x e Controllers Are you sure you would like to continue the Mirror Mirror Vol SQL amp D 3 amp 3 Data Protection Page 1 oF 1 ml Remote YPSAs Ves No Gye ne ge ig Details for Mirror_vol_SQL Details for Mirror Vol SOL fe Remote Mirroring Properties Snapsot Snapshot Policies Metering W Logs Snapshot Policies ID srcjvpsa 00000001 i Name Mirror Vol SQL 343 Access Control e Status Paused Users 10 5 Managing Mirror Lifecycle The Mirror controls the Remote Volume It cannot be attached to any Server nor can it be modified outside the scope of the Mirror Hence it is treated as a special kind of Dest Volume VPSA User Guide Page 67 You can view Mirror destination Volumes on the Dest Volumes tab on the Pool Page but they do not appear in the Volumes page 10 5 1 Clone Destination Volume for Dev amp Test of Remote Mirror For Dev amp Test of the Remote Mirror you can Clone the destination Volume using the data set of any Snapshot that was completely synced You cannot create a Clone of the Snapshot that is currently being synced The Cloned Volume is independent of the Destin
62. ity while also improving performance over RAID 6 RAID 5 stores parity data across all the physical drives in the array and allows more simultaneous read operations and higher performance If a drive fails the controller uses the parity data and the data on the remaining drives to reconstruct data from the failed drive The system continues operating with a slightly reduced performance until you replace the failed drive RAID 5 can only withstand the loss of one drive without total array failure It requires an array with a minimum of three physical drives Usable capacity is N 1 where N is the number of physical drives in the logical array Offers the best data protection and is an extension of RAID 5 RAID 6 uses multiple parity sets to store data and can therefore tolerate up to 2 drive failures simultaneously RAID 6 requires a minimum of 4 drives Performance is slightly lower than RAID 5 due to parity data updating on multiple drives Usable capacity is N 2 where N is the number of physical drives in the logical array RAID 10 Offers the best combination of data protection and performance Mirroring RAID 10 or drive mirroring creates fault tolerance by storing and Striping duplicate sets of data on a minimum of four hard drives RAID 10 is the most costly fault tolerance method because it requires 50 percent of the drive capacity to store the redundant data RAID 10 first mirrors each drive in the array to another and then stripes
63. ld Delete snapshots starting from the oldest when there is less than the following capacity left in the Pool o Default Value 1 GB Raid Groups This tab lists the RAID Groups participating in the selected Pool Each RAID Group includes the following information e Name e Protection RAID 1 RAID 5or RAID 6 e Status e Contributed Capacity Volumes and Dest Volumes These two tabs provide two lists for the provisioned Volumes and the Provisioned Remote Mirroring Destination Volumes Please note that the Dest volumes are not displayed in the main Volume page since most operations are not applicable on them Displaying the list of the Dest Volumes in the Pools south panel provides a complete picture of the Objects consuming capacity from the Pool Each Volume includes the following information e Name e Capacity virtual not provisioned e Status e Data Type Block or File System Metering The Metering Charts provide live metering of the IO workload associated with the selected Pool The charts display the metering data as it was captured in the past 20 Intervals An Interval length can be one of the following 1 Second 1 Minute 10 Minutes or 1 Hour The Auto button lets you see continuously updating live metering info refreshed every 3 sec VPSA User Guide Page 28 Pool Metering includes the following charts IOPs The Number of Read and Write SCSI commands issued to the Pool per Second Bandwidth T
64. ld process either on a newly created RAID group or following a drive replacement Setting the Sync Speed is a tradeoff between the need to complete the RAID rebuild as fast as possible in order to return to full redundancy level and the ability to supply good response time and throughput for Server IO workload Therefore the VPSA allows you to control two parameters impacting the sync Speed e Max Speed During Host I Os Controls the RAID sync speed when there are Server IOs Set it low if you want to prioritize the Servers IOs Set it high if you d like to prioritize the RAID rebuild process o Default value 10 MB s o Range 1 100 MB s e Max Speed W O Host I Os Controls the sync speed when there are no Server IOs Typically you would set it to max value 100 MB s unless it consumes too much of the VPSA resources depending on the Engine type impacting performance of other Raid Groups which do have active Server IOs amp Change Raid Group Sync Speed x Max speed during 10 MB s Max speed w o 100 MB s Host I Os Host I Os Submit Default Cancel Sync Speed can be set and modified at any time and can vary between RAID groups The Sync Speed also applies to Media Scan see below 5 5 Understanding Media Scans E E 9 E KR E amp Refresh Create Delete Force Recover Media Scan Sync Speed Add Spare Remove Spare Create Pool VPSA User Guide Page 20 Media Scan is the process of checking RAID 5 and RAID
65. lected Remote Mirror You can view the Mirror metering info on the source or the destination VPSA The charts display the metering data as it was captured in the past 20 Intervals An Interval length can be one of the following 1 Second 1 Minute 10 Minutes or 1 Hour The Auto button lets you see continues updated live metering info refreshed every 3 sec English ZadaraProd 13 10 1044 19 Remote Mirroring Sj Resources e Y Ae fy ei D gt Dri ey Aiii Refresh Create Reconnec t Pause Break Clone g RAID Groups Mirror Name Status Source VPSA Destination YP54 pod Mirror Vol SQL Syncing 21 ZadaraProd ZadaraDR to cols Volumes d D Servers Page 1 of 1 lt i Controllers E Details for Mirror Vol SQL Properties amp Snapsot Ss Snapshot Policies Logs EI Data Protection P Remote VPSAs e wrt bandwidth Remote Mirroring an I f F p ADV T Snapshot Policies 18 e 3 3 Access Control 12 G Users E 6 NAS Users o s ms ts es i tS mem 14 16 14 16 14 16 14 16 14 16 14 16 14 16 amp NAS Groups Time Displays all event logs associated with this Remote Mirror 11 Managing TechSupport Tickets You can manage your Zadara TechSupport tickets directly from your VPSA Any support request is redirected to the Zadara Support portal at http support zadarastorage com home E Tickets Q i e a e Refresh Create Comment Add ZSnap Close To Open a Support Ti
66. metering information in the Drives Details south panel tabs Properties Each drive includes the following properties An internally assigned unique ID Drive Capacity in MB Storage Node The name of the Storage Node where the drive is physically located SATA SAS or SSD Status The drive s status reflects the drive health as sensed by the Storage Node and by the VPSA RAID logic Available The drive is healthy and free Normal The drive is healthy and inside a RAID Group Absent No access to the drive Failed The Storage Node has reported failure accessing the drive Faulty The VPSA RAID object has failed writing or reading from this drive Recover Pending The RAID Group has failed and the drive is awaiting recovery Shredding The drive is being shredded RAID Group Name of the RAID group containing this drive In use Added The date and time when the drive was added to the VPSA Modified The date and time when the Drive object was last modified Metering The Metering Charts provide live metering of the IO workload associated with the selected Drive The charts display the metering data as it was captured in the past 20 Intervals An Interval length can be one of the following 1 Second 1 Minute 10 Minutes or 1 Hour The Auto button lets you see continuously updating live metering info refreshed every 3 sec VPSA User Guide Page 23 The Following charts are displayed IOPs The Number of
67. nd click Add User Enter the Username and Email address and press Add User button to confirm the operation f Users e e e e e G Ze Ze Ze de Refresh Add User Delete User Reset Password Change My Password Reset My Access Key Username Email Role lir Dzadarastorage com Admin amp Add User x lit im User Username Email Add Leer Cancel Once the new user is created a dialog with a temporary passcode will appear This passcode is also sent to the Admin user s email The new User will need to use this temp passcode the first time logging to the VPSA Success i User user1 created Please provide the user with the following temporary passcode which DD they can use to create a password during their first login atternpt hCuAHqy8 OK Deleting a User Log in to the VPSA with Admin user credentials Go to Users page select the user from the users list and click the Delete User button The User will be deleted No other entities created or managed by that user will be affected by this operation 9 2 Managing User Passwords The VPSA stores in its database a cryptographic hash value using a one way SHA 1 hash function of the VPSA User Password When you log in to the VPSA the entered password s hash value is compared with the one stored in the database Changing your password Log in to the VPSA go to the Users page and click Change my Password button VPSA User Guide Page 57 Users
68. night Keep latest 7 snapshots Keep latest 7 snapshots yearly Weekend snapshots Active Weekend days at midnight Keep latest 104 snapshots Keep latest 104 snapshots every 5 minutes for an hour Active Every 5 minutes Keep latest 12 snapshots Keep latest 12 snapshots Note When the Enterprise Suite is disabled all active Snapshot Policies are immediately paused and when the Enterprise Suite is re enabled policies are resumed 8 5 Cloning a Volume Cloning a Volume is the process of creating a Read Write zero capacity replica of a Volume with an identical data set as it exists in the Volume in a selected point in time which can be the time the Clone is created or one of the existing Snapshots point in time VPSA User Guide Page 49 The result of the Cloning operation is a new Volume The two Volumes now share all of the non modified chunks Only upon a first write to a chunk a Copy On Write occurs which allocates a new chunk and breaks the chunk sharing You can create an unlimited number of Clones of a given Volume either for the same data set from the same Snapshot or with different data sets Clones are independent from each other from the source Volume and from the Snapshots from which they were created For example you can delete the original Volume and or Snapshot and leave the Cloned Volume unaffected You can also modify Volume attributes of each Clone independently You can only create clones within the Pool where the
69. nshot example and for each object it displays the main properties 3 The south pane Displays detailed information regarding the selected object All objects have at least 3 tabs a Properties Detailed properties of the object b Metering Typically IO workload metering info c Logs List of event log messages related to that object 4 Enterprise Suite enable disable Indicated at the top right corner You can enable disable Enterprise Suite any time via the VPSA Management Console You need to refresh the browser f5 to see the updated status VPSA User Guide Page 9 5 Logged in username Displayed at the bottom left corner 6 Selected Language Displayed at the top left corner 3 3 Creating RAID Groups amp Pool amp Volumes Create a Raid Group For more details check here Create a Pool For more details check here Create an iSCSI NFS SMB Thin Provisioned Volume For more details check here Attach the Volume to a Server For more details check here Congratulations You have a new VPSA provisioned and ready The following sections describe in detail the various capabilities and services of your VPSA 4 Managing VPSAs You create delete and manage the resources composing your VPSAs via the VPSA Management Console This section describes the available operations at the Management Console https manage zadarastorage com 4 1 Adding and removing Disk Drives To add Drives to your VPSA go to t
70. nstruct the VPSA to perform a Force Recovery of the RAID Group which marks all drives as consistent and in sync and moves the RAID to Normal State It is recommended that you run Media Scan following Force Recovery which will ensure RAID parity consistency although data may still be inconsistent from the application perspective Note This operation may result in application data loss It must be used only when drives are permanently lost and when there are no other alternatives to recover the data 5 7 Replacing a Drive VPSA User Guide Page 21 Gi E E E Refresh Remove Replace Shred Create Raid Group Name Capacity Storage Node Type drive 000 931 GB iadzadapp03p SAS drive 001 931 GB iadzadapp01p SAS drive 002 931 GB iadzadapp04p SAS drive 003 y lt gt Replace Drive x drive 012 drive 013 Name Capacity Storage Node Type VI drive 020 558 GB iadzadapp05p SAS drive 014 ms drive 021 558 GB iadzadapp03p SAS drive 015 SS E drive 022 558 GB iadzadappOip SAS nelle EF drive 023 558 GB iadzadappO4p SAS drive 017 E drive 024 558 GB iadzadapp02p SAS odd Replace Cancel drive 019 Press the Replace button to replace a drive When selecting the replacement drive you must choose a drive that will not break the RAID Group redundancy i e you cannot have two or more drives from the same Storage Node in a RAID Group If you select a drive that has a different type or larger size than the other drives in the RAID
71. o Reconnect a Mirror English I Resources A A A p z gt Drives ai Se X Dei ST A v K LY Refresh Create Delete Expand Servers Protect RAID Groups Name Capacity Status B Create Snapshot Pool Vol 5Q DR 2013 11 24 07 20 58 200 GB Available pool_DB_DR ts Pools E Clone Vol 5Q DR 200 GB Available pool_DB_DR amp Create Mirror BN Servers amp Attach Snapshot Policy mm Controllers 3 Data Protection Page 1 Reconnect Mirror x DN Remote VPSAs Gart 3 Remote VEGA md Remote Mirroring ID Name Provider IP Address Properties vsa 00000113 ZadaraProd aws2 209 34 66 68 Snapshot Policies 5 F ID vol Page 1 of 1 Displaying 1 1 of 1 37 Access Control Name vo e i F i ei Users Virtual Capacity 20 Find Remote Volumes Cancel nasu Status Availabl oe sers valable e Go to the Volumes Page select the Volume you wish to act as the Source Volume of the Mirror and click the Protect gt Reconnect Mirror button Alternately you can go to the Remote Mirroring Page and click Reconnect and select the Source Volume e Select the Remote VPSA that contains a Volume that used to be a mirror pair of the selected Source Volume in the past VPSA User Guide Page 69 e Press the Find Remote Volumes button The VPSA will query the Remote VPSA and display suggested Remote Volumes which can be Destination Volumes of the Mirror with the following info o Remote Volume name o New Data There is new data on th
72. ol DB AMAZONA 1FO1PAM Web files 1000 GB In use File Syst Pool Webfiles AMAZONA 1FO1PAM SQL test 200 GB Availabl BLOCK pool_DB b logs Ha 250 GB Availabl File Syst Pool Webfiles test sh 1 GB I Filter Snapshots ei From Date Time 11 21 2013 Properties Snapshots Snapshot Policies EM Servers To Date Time 11 21 2013 Origin y ftatus 85046583732 snapshot Policy S Name Create Policy Delete Policy Hourly Snapshots for a Day Every hour Keep latest 24 snapshots Daily Snapshots for a Week Once per day at midnight Keep latest 7 snapshots yearly Weekend snapshots Weekend days at midnight Keep latest 104 snapshots every 5 minutes for an hour Every 5 minutes Keep latest 12 snapshots OTT Reset Filters Filter 2013 11 21 09 15 43 2013 11 21 09 10 43 2013 11 21 09 05 43 9 Managing Access Control 9 1 Adding amp Deleting Users The VPSA s User Management system supports multiple users There are two distinct roles e Admin The Admin user can add and delete users and reset user s password through the VPSA GUI There is a single Admin user per VPSA and that is the user who created the VPSA via the VPSA Management Console e User A user who was added by the Admin user This user has full rights to manage the VPSA either through the GUI or REST APIs Each user has its own Password and Access Key Adding a new User VPSA User Guide Page 56 Log in to the VPSA with Admin user credentials Go to Users page a
73. on your Linux Server 9 5 Enabling Active Directory Authentication By joining the VPSA to the Active Directory AD users can use the same set of username and password that are stored in the AD to login the SMB shares 9 5 1 Joining the VPSA to Active Directory To join the VPSA to the Windows Active Directory Go to VPSA GUI gt Domain Security and click the Join button Domain Security Va Refresh Domain Domain NetBIOS Name Join Active Directory Server x Active Directory Server Domain Controller Server Name Domain Name mydomain net Domain NetBIOS Name MYDOMAIN Administrator Name Administrator Administrator Password ececcccccccce DNS IP 10 0 0 254 Submit Cancel e nthe opened dialog fill out the following information o Active Directory Server Name Domain Name Domain NetBIOS Name Administrator Name of the domain Administrator Password DNS IP The IP must be the same as the DNS server of your Active Directory Or O Or Ex VPSA User Guide Page 62 e Click the Submit button and confirm the following warning message requesting to ensure proper permissions of files and folders created on the VPSA shares prior to joining the AD Confirmation Required x i Joining the Active Directory domain can cause permission problems with files and folders created before joining the Active Directory domain Before joining to Active Directory domain set permission on your files and fol
74. oo GB In use BLOCK pool DB web files 1000 GB In use File System Pool Webfiles 200 GB Available BLOCK pool DB The Export name of a cloned Share will be identical to the Cloned Share display name 8 6 Managing Encrypted Volumes Encryption management of Data at Rest data on the Disk Drives is done by the VPSA on a per Volume basis i e some Volumes can be encrypted while others cannot A VPSA generates a random 128 bit unique Volume Encryption Key per encrypted Volume and uses the Advanced Encryption Standard AES to encrypt and decrypt the Volume data The Volume Encryption Keys are stored on disk as ciphertext using AES with a 128 bit Master Encryption Key which is generated from a user supplied Master Encryption Password The User owns the Master Encryption Password It is never stored on any persistent media Instead only its SHA1 hash sum is saved on disk for password validation Since it is virtually impossible to restore the Master Encryption Password from the SHA1 hash sum you are fully responsible to retain and protect the Master Encryption Password During VPSA operation the Master Encryption Password itself is held in kernel memory of the VPSA Core dumping any User Mode process within the VPSA will not reveal the Master Encryption Key VPSA User Guide Page 51 The above method ensures that encrypted Data at Rest cannot be accessed without explicitly knowing the user supplied Master Encryption Password thu
75. op update n node session auth password v lt CHAP secret gt iscsiadm m node T lt VPSA Target ION gt p lt VPSA Management IP gt login Where e VPSA Target ION Target IQN of the VPA Can be found in the VPSA GUI Controllers page Properties south panel Target parameter It is of the format iqn 2011 04 com zadarastorage vsa 000009e5 1 e VPSA Management IP The iSCSI IP of your VPSA Can be found in the VPSA GUI Controllers page under the iSCSI IP colum Note To ensure that your Server automatically login to the VPSA after each reboot or iscsid restart run the following command on your Linux Server iscsiadm m node T lt VPSA Target ION gt p lt VPSA Management IP gt op update Sn node serve 7 1 4 Configure Server Attributes You can change the following Server Attributes using the Config Server dialog e Server IQN e Server IP address e Enable Disable IPSec VPSA User Guide Page 37 E Servers os a FE a Refresh Create Config Delete Connect Name IP ION AMAZONA 1FO1PAM 192 168 1 249 iqn 1991 05 com microsoft amazona 1F01pam iqn 1991 05 com microsoft win ljgkvamc302 192 168 1 201 ign 1991 05 com microsoft win ljgkvamc302 amp Config Server x sj as ION iqn 1991 05 com microsoft win ljgkvamc30 Page 1 C IP 192 168 1 201 aE Ep RE EG i Enable IPsec ET Whi boca Ei Update Cancel Name Both the server IQN and IP address must be unique Theref
76. or via iSCSI login OS OS version detailed string such as Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter 6 1 7601 Available only for registered Servers Added Date amp time when the Server object was added Modified Date amp time when the Server object was last modified Volumes A list of all the Volumes attached to this server Metering The Metering Charts provide live metering of the IO workload associated with the selected Server The charts display the metering data as it was captured in the past 20 Intervals An Interval length can be one of the following 1 Second 1 Minute 10 Minutes or 1 Hour The Auto button lets you see continuously updating live metering info refreshed every 3 sec The following charts are displayed IOPs The Number of Read and Write SCSI commands issued from this Server to all its attached Volumes Bandwidth Total Throughput in MB of Read and Write SCSI issued from this MB s Server to all its attached Volumes IO Time ms Average response time of all Read and Write SCSI issued from this Server to all its attached Volumes Logs VPSA User Guide Page 39 Displays all event logs associated with this Server 8 Managing Volumes Snapshots and Clones VPSA virtual Volumes are thinly provisioned utilizing an efficient and sophisticated block level mapping layer The Volume s virtual address space is chunked into virtual contiguous blocks a k a Chunks When yo
77. ore the VPSA will block you from changing those attributes to conflicting values used by other Servers 7 2 Viewing Servers Properties The Servers Page displays a list of available Server objects providing the following detailed information in the Servers details south panel tabs m gs a 3 Refresh Create Config Delete Connect Name IP IQN os Registered Status IPsec AMAZONA 1FO1PAM 192 168 1 249 ign 1991 05 com microsoft amazona 1F01pam AY Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter 6 1 7601 Yes Active Disabled Ion 1991 05 com microsoft win ljgkvamc302 192 168 1 201 ign 1991 05 com microsoft win ljqkvamc302 no Active Disabled Properties El Volumes Metering W Logs ID srv 00000002 Name iqn 1991 05 com microsoft win ljigkvanc302 IP 192 168 1 201 ION on 1991 05 com microsoft win ligkvanmc302 IPsec Disabled Registered no OS Status Active Added 2013 11 19 06 39 05 Modified 2013 11 19 06 39 05 Properties p Each Pool includes the following properties Property Description VPSA User Guide Page 38 An internally assigned unique ID User assigned name If the Server was created as a result of an iSCSI login the VPSA will assign it a name similar to its IQN Name can be modified anytime IP Address of the Server Unique iSCSI Qualified Name of the Server Enabled Disabled Registered Yes The Connect script was used to create the Server No The Server was created manually
78. original Volume resides To create a new Clone Go to The Volumes page select the Volume to be cloned and press the Protect gt Clone button e Enter the Cloned Volume name e Select the point in time Snapshot which you wish to replicate its data set If you wish clone the current data set of the Volume don t select any Snapshot and e Submit the operation z 1 z wv Y E a Aa Refresh Create Delete Expand Servers Protect Name Capacity Create Snapshot Data Type Pool vol SQL 200 GB BLOCK pool DB i ile Syst Pool Webfil web files 1000 GB BB create Mirror File System ool Webfiles Reconnect Mirror amp Attach Snapshot Policy Clone Volume x Clone Name vol SQL test Name Timestamp v Status Properties gt Snapshots Snapshot Policies rn e 5 r7 1385040642810 2013 11 21 08 30 42 normal ID volume 00000002 Name vol SQOL g s 1385039742688 2013 11 21 08 15 42 normal Virtual Capacity 200 GB SS s r7 1385039442645 2013 11 21 08 10 42 normal Status In use s r 1385039142605 2013 11 21 08 05 42 normal Data Type BLOCK s r3 r 1385038842582 2013 11 21 08 00 42 normal Pool pool DB F s r7 1385038542548 2013 11 21 07 55 42 normal Server s AMAZONA 1FO1PAM E s r7 1385038242523 2013 11 21 07 50 42 normal Provisioning Thin s r 1385037942490 2013 11 21 07 45 42 normal WWID 6665393763653831 E s r7 1385037642451 2013 11 21 07 40 42 normal Encrypted No fall 5 r7 1385037342407 2013 11 21 07 35
79. ormal i see RPO 2013 11 24 08 41 00 5 r8 1385307959168 2013 11 24 07 45 59 normal roups ES Da Created 2013 11 24 08 45 45 I s r8 1385308259246 2013 11 24 07 50 59 normal 353 Support Modified EREET I s r8 1385308559361 2013 11 24 07 55 59 normal vw Event Log E s r8 1385308859449 2013 11 24 08 00 59 normal Source PSA Es Ei Forums Provider Page 1 f2 gt Nie Displaying 1 12 of 15 VPSA ZadaraProd Submit Cancel Tickets Pant e Select the point in time Snapshot which contains the data set that you wish to clone The VPSA will assign a name to the Cloned Volume which is a concatenation of the Dest Mirror Volume name amp the timestamp of the selected Snapshot You can modify this name at any time e You can find the newly created Volume in the Volume Page S Volumes z z ND Gi B a gt A AA Refresh Create Delete Expand Servers Protect Name Capacity Status Data Type Pool Vol SO DR 2013 11 24 07 20 58 200 GB Available BLOCK pool DB DR 10 5 2 Breaking a Mirror Breaking a Mirror is the process of deleting the Mirroring relationship between the Source Volume and the Destination Volume while leaving sufficient information for future Mirror reconnect The Destination Volume then becomes a regular Volume and the source and the destination Volumes are now independent A mirror can be broken from the source or from the destination VPSAs VPSA User Guide Page 68 You can perform a future
80. ot Policy Pause Policy Detach Policy Daily Snapshots for a Week Once per day at midnight Keep latest 7 snapshots TEER Fr Create Policy Delete Policy Weekly Snapshots for a Year Every Sunday at midnight Keep latest 53 snapshots yearly Weekend snapshots Weekend days at midnight Keep latest 104 snapshots Hourly Snapshots for a Day Active Every hour Keep latest 24 snap a every 5 minutes for an hour Every 5 minutes Keep latest 12 snapshots Daily Snapshots for a Week Active Once per day at midnight Keep latest 7 snapsl yearly Weekend snapshots Active Weekend days at midnight Keep latest 104 sna Submit Cancel To detach a Snapshot Policy from a Volume e Goto the Volumes page select the Volume and press the Snapshot Policies south tab to view the Volume s applied Snapshot Policies VPSA User Guide Page 48 e Select the Snapshot Policy to delete and press the Detach Policy button on the top left corner of the south panel e You will be prompted to decide whether or not to delete all the Volume s Snapshots associated with this Policy Va ba el T m 5 k Refresh Create Delete Expand Servers Protect Name Capacity Status Data Type Pool vol 5QL 200 GB Available BLOCK pool DB Web files 1000 GB In use File System Pool Webfiles Detach Policy x 9 Detach Policy yearly Weekend snapshots from vol SQL 7 I also delete snapshots created by policy Page 1 of 1 o Ves No amp Details for vol SQL Properties Snapshots amp Snapshot Policies Serv
81. ot be created e Few Snapshots Policies are predefined in the VPSA To create a new Snapshot Policy e Go to the Snapshot Polices page and press the Create button e Provide a meaningful name to the Policy e Select the appropriate Creation Policy from the drop down list e Define the number of Snapshots to retain in the deletion policy e Allows Empty Snapshot Creation Set this checkbox if you d like snapshots to be created according to the creation policy even if no data was modified since the previous snapshot VPSA User Guide Page 47 e Ifyou will be using this policy for Remote Mirroring you can define a different number of Snapshots to retain on the DR site This field is optional and defaults to the above deletion policy Snapshot Policies ai e z Refresh Create Edit elete Name Create Policy Delete Policy Dest Delete Policy Next Run Hourly Snapshots for a Day Every hour Keep latest 24 snapshots Keep latest 24 snapshots Today at 11 00 AM Daily Snapshots for a Week Once per day at midnight Keep latest 7 snapshots Keep latest 7 snapshots Tomorrow at 12 00 AM Weekly Snapshots for a Year Every Sunday at midnight Keep latest 53 snapshots Keep latest 53 snapshots Sunday at 12 00 AM Create Snapshot Policy x Name Weekend snapshots Ay Creation Policy Page 1 of 1 Pr Weekend days at midnight v Deletion Policy Maximum number of snapshots to retain required 104 Maximum number of snapshots to retain on the destin
82. otal throughput in MB of Read and Write SCSI commands MB s issued to the Pool per Second IO Time ms Average response time of all Read and Write SCSI commands issued to the Pool per Selected interval Logs Displays all event logs associated with this Pool 6 4 Managing Pool Alerts The VPSA s efficient and sophisticated storage provisioning infrastructure maximizes storage utilization while providing key enterprise grade data management functions As a result you can quite easily over provision a Pool with Volumes Snapshots and Clones and hence a Pool Protection Mechanism is required to alert and protect when free Pool space is low The VPSA Pool Protection Mechanism is mostly time based The goal is to provide you sufficient time to fix the low free space situation by either deleting unused Volumes Snapshots Clones or by expanding the Pool available capacity which is a very simple and quick process due to the elasticity of the VPSA and the Zadara Storage Cloud The VPSA measures the rate at which Pool free space is consumed and calculates the estimated time left before running out of free space The following user configurable parameters impact alerts and operations which are performed as part of the Pool Protection Mechanism e Alert Threshold The estimated time in minutes before running out of free space in which an alert support ticket is to be submitted and an email to be sent to the VPSA user When crossing this
83. ring mode for High Availability The VC maintains a sophisticated and granular block level mapping layer from virtual to physical address spaces thus enabling enterprise level data management capabilities like Thin Provisioning Snapshots Cloning and Remote Mirroring The VCs provide GUI and REST API end points for management and control VPSA User Guide Page 5 2 1 3 Dedicated Drives The Zadara Storage Cloud Orchestrator assigns dedicated drives per VPSA The drives are provisioned from different Storage Nodes SNs for maximum redundancy and performance Each drive is exposed as a separate iSCSI target from the SN and is LUN masked only to the VPSA s VCs This provides a complete isolation and privacy of your data drives No bad neighbors can access your drives impact your performance or compromise your privacy and security Hence your drives QoS are guaranteed 2 1 4 Zadara Storage Cloud Orchestrator This is the orchestrator software running inside the Zadara Storage Cloud managing physical resources provisioning VPSAs and monitoring the Cloud The VPSA Management Console communicates with the Zadara Storage Cloud Orchestrator to create modify and update the user VPSAs Note management of the VPSA internal objects such as Raid Groups Pools and Volumes and the VPSA data is completely separated from the Zadara Cloud management 3 Getting Started 3 1 Registering a Zadara Account amp Creating a VPSA e Go to http
84. s Disabled ves ip 10 0 0 86 10 0 0 86 iqn 1993 08 org debian 01 cbeal4ae Disabled ves E Connect Server x Platform Windows v iSCSI E Click here to download the Windows connection script Close Page 1 of 1 To Add a Windows Server e First time you connect an iSCSI Volume to a Windows Server you need to start the iSCSI service on the Windows Server before running the VPSA connect script o In Windows Start gt Run dialog type iSCSI and select the iSCSI Initiator program You will be prompted to start the service Press Yes to confirm Microsoft iSCSI The Microsoft iSCSI service is not running The service is required to be started for iSCSI to Function correctly To start the service now and have the service start automatically each time the computer restarts click the Yes button e On the VPSA GUI Connect Server dialog select platform Windows e Select the iSCSI checkbox if you wish to expose VPSA Block Volumes to this Server e Click the download link This will download the connect script from the VPSA to your Server e Depending on your browser locate the downloaded script open and run it The below screenshots are using Chrome browser VPSA User Guide Page 31 WIN FVH2L76L6PC 10 0 0 219 ign 1991 05 com microsoft Volumes WIN NFANY2N1UKO 10 0 0 220 iqn 1991 05 com microsoft D Servers WIN ROAKLSESEIO 10 0 0 20 ign 1991 05 com microsoft ewe Controllers ip 10 0 0 g amp Connec
85. s manage zadarastorage com register and complete the form to register a Zadara Account e Goto your VPSA Management Console at https manage zadarastorage com Login using the registered username email amp password and press Create VPSA The following dialog will appear VPSA User Guide Page 6 Create New Virtual Private Storage Array VPSA Name VPSA Description Les Select Cloud Provider POE wane nr amazon af ES webservices EQUINIX dimension A F netapp data AA COO E vivavo fm CORESITE same CloudSigma Select Region AWS US East N Virginia 1 Y Select Zadara Engine Baby 1 CPU 4GB RAM Max 5 drives 0 49 hr 7 y 1 0 49 Select Drive Quantities 0 300GB SAS 15000 RPM 0 11 hr 0 600GB SAS 10000 RPM 0 22 hr 0 3000GB SATA Repository Storage 0 18 hr Enter the following mandatory fields e VPSA Name Give the VPSA a name This is how it will appear in the Cloud Console and in the VPSA GUI e VPSA Description Give the VPSA a description e Select Cloud Provider From your VPSA Management Console you can provision and manage VPSAs across many Cloud Providers amp regions o Select a Region Select the Cloud Provider region where your application servers reside The servers and the VPSA must reside in the same region in order to establish an efficient iSCSI or NFSNCIFS connectivity Ss Select the Zadara Engine The Zadara Engine defines the compute characteristics of your VPSA
86. s providing you full protection if you opt for Data at Rest Volumes encryption Encryption attribute of Volumes cannot be changed If you d like to encrypt the data of a non encrypted Volume or vice versa you will need to create a new Volume and Copy the data To create a Master Encryption Password go to the Controllers page and press the Encryption button Read the instructions and warning Type your Password and Submit the request Controllers Lal lt wi Si wi lt SC Refresh Failover CHAP Auth NFS Domain Public IPs Power On Encryption Name Storage Node Management IP vsa 00000113 ve 1 iadzadapp02p 172 31 240 113 sa 00000113 vc 0 iadzadapp03p 172 31 240 112 Encryption Password x IMPORTANT PLEASE PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THESE INSTRUCTIONS IF YOU DO NOT THERE IS A RISK YOU WILL PERMANENTLY LOSE ACCESS TO YOUR ENCRYPTED DATA In order to protect the privacy of your data we store your data encryption decryption keys in a way which is inaccessible to us The benefit to you is that neither we nor your Cloud Provider nor anyone else can decrypt your data Because your keys are inaccessible to us you must select AND SAVE password with which our systems can access your encryption decryption keys Please enter a password for protecting your encryption decryption keys Encryption Password 29000000 Pac SS YOU MUST SAVE THIS PASSWORD FOR FUTURE USE There is a small chance that our system will prompt you for th
87. s Virtual Controllers VCs Each engine type defines the following characteristics o Number of CPUs that are assigned to your VPSA s VCs o Amount of RAM that is assigned to your VPSA s VCs o Default size of protected SSD Cache The Zadara Engine type can be changed at any time throughout the lifetime of your VPSA depending on your applications workload needs Note The compute resources CPU RAM and Cache are dedicated to your VPSA which ensures consistent performance and isolation from other tenants workloads and behavior e Drive Quantities Select the type and number of drives which are to be allocated for your VPSA o The Zadara Cloud Orchestrator allocates full and dedicated drives VPSA User Guide Page 7 o Drives are allocated from as many different SNs as possible to provide max redundancy for your VPSA s RAID groups o There is a maximum of number of drives per Zadara Engine type The stronger the Engine is the more drives you can add The following is the max drives per Engine type Maximum of drives e Enterprise Suite Enable this checkbox if you d like to leverage the VPSA Enterprise Suite feature set including o Snapshot o Cloning o Remote Mirroring o Volume Encryption Note Enterprise Suite can be enabled disabled at any time throughout the lifetime of your VPSA e Once you have completed selecting the above VPSA characteristics press the Submit button to confirm the VPSA creation request The reque
88. st Cache Time Created GMT 2013 11 16 21 29 50 Enterprise Suite Disabled Enable Enterprise Suite Note Disabling the Enterprise Suite will have the following impact on existing objects e Snapshot and Clones are not affected e Snapshot Policies are paused e Remote Mirrors are paused VPSA User Guide Page 14 e Encrypted Volumes are not affected e New Encrypted Volumes cannot be created 4 6 Hibernating you VPSA You can hibernate your VPSA when it is not in use for some period of time in order to reduce its associated service cost Hibernating a VPSA involves the process of deleting its Virtual Controllers the Zadara Engine while sustaining its data drives and all the necessary metadata to resume its operation at a later stage No data is lost The hibernated VPSA is not accessible to any GUI or REST API commands nor will it present any iSCSI or NFA SMB volumes While the VPSA is in Hibernate state you will not be billed for the Zadara Engine Resuming a Hibernated VPSA may take a few minutes To hibernate a VPSA go to the VPSA Management Console and press the Hibernate button ment Console Create VPSA Management Address Drives Provider Refresh Delete https vsa 00000077 aws eu1 zadaravpsa com 8 BR AWS EU Ireland Ready amp https vsa 000000d0 aws eu1 zadaravpsa com 6 BR AWS EU Ireland Ready amp 5 amp https vsa 000000d3 aws eu1 zadaravpsa com 5 ER aws EU Ireland Ready WS EU Ireland
89. sted VPSA will appear in the Awaiting Approval list 1 VPSA s Awaiting Approval click to hide Status Provider Drives Zadara Engine Awaiting Approval Zadara_Demo ER AWS US East N Virginia 1 3 Basic e VPSA creation requires the approval of the Zadara Storage Cloud adminOnce approved the new VPSA only takes a few minutes to launch During that time you ll see your VPSA in Launching status as shown below VPSA Management Console Create VPSA My VPSAs Status Refresh Delete Provider Drives Management Address ZadaraProd EN AWS US East N Virginia 2 e Once the VPSA is ready you ll receive an email with a temporary passcode at your registered email address e Use the Management Address link to access the VPSA GUI VPSA User Guide Page 8 VPSA Management Console Create VPSA My VPSAs Management Address Drives Provider Status Refresh Delete ZadaraProd 4 EN AWS US East N Virginia 2 Ready 2 5 E ZadaraProd AWS US East N Virginia 2 Name ZadaraProd Management Address 3 Change Engine GC https vsa 00000112 aws2 zadaravpsa com Description N A Assign Public IP IP Address 172 31 240 108 Status Ready ge l Public IP None Add Drives Zadara Engine Basic Cache 20GB 20GB from Engin G Adjust Cache Time Created GMT we 2013 11 16 21 29 50 Enterprise Suite Enabled Disable Enterprise Suite e Use your registered usern
90. t Server 353 Data Protection Platform Windows v r Remote VPSAs Se iSCSI E e Click here to download the Windows connection script ve Remote Mirroring Snapshot Policies Sj Access Control users w e poe NAS Users Loi NFS Groups Logged in as yhershko Log out Open File Security Warning E Do you want to open this file Name C Users dministrator Downloadsjvpsa win vbs Publisher Unknown Publisher Type VBScript Script File From C Users Administrator Downloads vpsa_win vbs IV Always ask before opening this file potentially harm your computer If you do not trust the source do not D While files from the Internet can be useful this file type can open this software What s the risk Disabled Disabled Disabled Close e Once the connect script successfully completes the new connected Server will be listed in the VPSA Servers page with status Active Registered Yes and the correct OS details To Add a Linux Server e Verify that open iscsi is installed on the Server o On RedHat Servers do SE ee eve E o On Ubuntu Servers do S sudo apt get update See See uns Ea En SON Se e On the VPSA GUI Connect Server dialog select platform Linux e Select the iSCSI checkbox if you wish to expose VPSA Block Volumes to this Server e Run the three steps as detailed in the connect server dialog to execute the vpsa_linux sh script VPSA User Guide
91. te SCSI issued to the selected Volume from all attached Servers Bandwidth Total throughput in MB of Read and Write SCSI issued to the MB s selected Volume from all attached Servers Logs Displays all event logs associated with this Volume 8 8 Filtering Snapshots With VPSA you can create many snapshots on every Volume Snapshots can be created manually or by using Snapshot Policies or by Remote Mirroring Finding a snapshot can be tricky The Filter Snapshot option will help you find the specific snapshot you need VPSA User Guide Page 55 Go to the Volumes page select a Volume and display the Snapshots tab in the south panel Press the Filter button at the bottom of the page Define one or more of the following parameters e You can define the From Date Time and To Date Time to filter only Snapshots that were created during that interval e You can select the Origin of the Snapshot o Al all Snapshot origins o User Snapshot created manually or via a Snapshot Policy which was attached to this Volume o Mirror Snapshots which were created by the Remote Mirroring application using the Snapshot policy which was defined at the time of the Mirror creation e Snapshot Policy Select a Policy if you d like to filter only Snapshots that were created by that Policy volumes S u X E ay Sal t Refresh Create Delete Expand Servers Protect Name Capacity Statu Data Type Pool Server s SQL 00 GB In use BLOCK po
92. the data across the mirrored pair If a physical drive fails the mirror drive provides a backup copy of the files and normal system operations are not interrupted RAID 10 can withstand multiple simultaneous drive failures as long as the failed drives are not mirrored to each other Note RAID 10 is achieved in VPSA by creating RAID 1 RAID Groups and striping them together at the Pool level 5 2 Viewing RAID Group properties The following properties and metering information are displayed in the RAID Group details found in the south panel tabs Properties Each RAID Group includes the following properties VPSA User Guide Page 17 An internally assigned unique ID User assigned name Can be modified anytime I Number of mirror copies for RAID 1 Protection Width Number of Drives participating in a RAID 5 and RAID 6 RAID Group including parity e Normal All drives are in sync Resyncing X The RAID is in an initial rebuild process Degraded One of the drives have failed Degraded Resyncing X The RAID is resyncing data following a drive recovery replacement Repairing X Media Scan is in progress Repairing Paused Media Scan is paused Failed The array has lost too many drives and cannot serve Server IOs Date amp time when the object was created Modified Date amp time when the object was last modified Drives Lists the disk Drives participating in the selected RAID Group The following information
93. ting state and will later disappear from the list once the deletion process completes Please note that Snapshots deletion typically takes less than a minute but in complex configurations it may extend up to few minutes 8 4 2 Managing Snapshot Policies Snapshot policies define the Snapshots lifecycle via enforcement of creation and deletion policies Snapshot Policies are global entities and you can apply instances of the policies to one or more Volumes Unapplied policies are idle they do not consume any resources and never create any snapshots A few points to consider e You can apply a Snapshot policy to one or more Volumes e You can apply multiple Snapshot Policies to a Volume e Iftwo or more snapshot policies are scheduled to create a Snapshot at the same time on the same Volume only a single snapshot will be created That snapshot will be deleted only when all relevant delete polices approve its deletion e Snapshot creation time is a rounded time regardless of the policy creation time For example if you created a Snapshot Policy at 9 02 which has a creation policy to create a snapshot every 10 minutes the Snapshots will be created at 9 10 9 20 9 30 etc not at 9 12 9 22 9 32 etc e You can decide whether empty snapshots are to be created or not Le if the time has come to create a Snapshot according to the Creation Policy but no data has changed since the previous Snapshot should a new and empty Snapsh
94. tion Mechanism check here for more details Export Name The name of the NFS SMB mount point as seen by the Server Must be Unique By default it is identical to the Share name atime Update indicates whether to update access time of files and directories on every access including read access By default atime Update is disabled Enabling it will impact performance SMB Only Set this checkbox if you know that this NAS share will be attached to Servers only via the SMB protocol In this case VPSA can do some locking optimization to enhance performance SMB Allow Guest Access Set this checkbox if you want to enable connection and access to the NAS share to anonymous users without requiring a password Pool Select the Pool that is most appropriate for your Share s QoS requirements available capacity caching RAID protection etc Apply snapshot Policy See Managing Snapshot Policies for detailed explanation regarding snapshot policies You can apply and remove snapshot policies from a Share at any time If you select this check box you are requested to select one of the existing snapshot policies VPSA User Guide Page 42 e Encrypted Select the check box if you wish to encrypt the Share s data on the drives Please note that you must first define an encryption password via the Controller Page For more details about Volume encryption please check here Note Share creation involves the process of initializing a file system
95. u create a Volume it consumes zero Pool capacity The first write to each Chunk triggers the provision of Pool capacity and mapping update of the virtual to physical addresses thus Pool capacity is provisioned on demand The Volume s virtual Capacity is not limited to the Pool available capacity Snapshots represent read only representations of the Volume s data at a given point in time They are thinly provisioned as well sharing data Chunks with the Volume as much as possible until you actually modify the Chunk s data This triggers a Copy On Write COW operation where a new chunk is provisioned and the modified data is written there Cloned Volumes are Volumes created by cloning another Volume s data set at a specified point in time Snapshot Volumes and their Clones share unmodified Pool Chunks and COW is triggered whenever you modify a chunk in the Volume or in the Clones Volumes can be block Volumes exposed via an iSCSI protocol or NAS Shares exposed visa NFS or SMB protocols 8 1 Creating and Deleting a Volume To Create a Volume go to the Volumes Page and press the Create button Select if you wish to a create a Volume or a NAS Share amp Volumes Gi ur Y Ne T v D Refresh Create elete p Name E Create Block Volume Capacity voll E Create NAS Share 1066 vol 12 GB nas 1 100 GB Creating a Block Volume VPSA User Guide Page 40 Create Thin Yolume x Name Vol SOL Capacity GB 200 Pool
96. uired for RAID 5 a minimum of 3 drives and for RAID 6 a minimum of 4 drives e For maximum redundancy drives MUST be selected from different Storage Nodes VPSA will prevent you from doing otherwise e Itis possible but not recommended to mix drives of different types ina RAID Group E Create Raid Group x Name RAID 5 DB Protection RAID1 RAIDS D RAID6 Stripe Size 4KB 16KB 32KB 9 64KB 128KB 256KB Hot Spare Drives Name Type Capacity Status w Storage Node drive 020 SAS 558 GB Available iadzadappOSp d drive 021 SAS 558 GB Available iadzadapp03p 4J drive 022 SAS 558 GB Available iadzadappO1p J drive 023 SAS 558 GB Available iadzadapp04p J drive 024 SAS 558 GB Available iadzadapp02p Create Cancel 5 1 1 Understanding RAID levels RAID 1 Offers a good combination of data protection and performance Mirroring RAID 1 or Drive Mirroring creates fault tolerance by storing duplicate sets of data on a minimum of two hard drives There must be 2 or 3 drives in a RAID 1 RAID 1 and RAID 10 are the most costly fault tolerance methods because they require 50 percent of the drive capacity to store the redundant data RAID 1 mirrors the contents of one hard drive in the array onto another VPSA User Guide Page 16 If either hard drive fails the other hard drive provides a backup copy of the files and normal system operations are not interrupted Offers the best combination of data protection and usable capac
97. ver to detach from and click the Detach button on the top left corner of the south panel Fo gt Resources E eg k ly e w T e k gt Drives E a cb Y Refresh Create Delete Expand Servers Protect g RAID Groups Name Capacity Status Data Type Pool Server s ger ol SQL 200 GB In use BLOCK pool_DB AMAZONA 1FO1PAM e pools Web files 1000 GB In use File System Pool Webfiles AMAZONA 1FO1PAM Volumes F web logs Z i 250 GB Available File System Pool Webfiles Detach Server x gj Controllers 2 Detach Server AMAZONA 1FO1PAM from Web files Page 33 Data Protection Ves No z Remote VPSAs 4 ar Remote Mirroring Properties Snapshots Snapshot Policies Metering gi Logs Snapshot Policies Status IP IQN IPsec J Access Control Active 192 168 1 249 ign 1991 05 com microsoft amazona Disabled Users KI 8 3 Expanding a Volume You can expand a Volume anytime regardless if the Volume has Snapshots Clones or is being remotely mirrored To expand a Volume go to the Volumes page select the Volume and press the Expand button Enter the amount of virtual capacity you d like to expand the Volume by VPSA User Guide Page 45 amp Volumes Refresh Create Delete Expand Servers Protect Name Capacity Status Data Type Pool vol SQL 200 GB Available BLOCK pool DB Web files 1000 GB Available File System Pool Webfiles Expand Volume m Additional 100 a Capacity GB Submit Cancel 8 4 Managin

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