NetApp SolidFire Element OS User Guide Version 10.3 June 2018 | 215-13201_A0 [email protected] Table of Contents | 3 Contents About this guide ............................................................................................ 8 SolidFire system overview ........................................................................... 9 Clusters ........................................................................................................................ 9 Nodes ........................................................................................................................... 9 Storage nodes .................................................................................................. 9 Fibre Channel nodes ...................................................................................... 10 Networking ................................................................................................................ 10 Switch configuration for SolidFire clusters .................................................. 10 Network port requirements ............................................................................ 11 System setup ................................................................................................ 14 Installing a management node ................................................................................... 14 Setting up the connection.json file for Active IQ ...................................................... 15 Help options for the manage-collector.py utility ........................................... 16 Configuring a storage node ....................................................................................... 17 Configuring the node using the node UI ....................................................... 18 Configuring the node using the TUI .............................................................. 19 Configuring iDRAC on each new node ......................................................... 19 Configuring a Fibre Channel node ............................................................................ 19 Creating a new cluster ............................................................................................... 20 Adding drives to a cluster .......................................................................................... 21 Changing the Element OS default SSL certificate .................................................... 22 Using the Element OS web UI ................................................................... 23 Using filters ............................................................................................................... 23 Sorting lists ................................................................................................................ 24 Using the API log ...................................................................................................... 24 Web UI and cluster load ................................................................................ 25 Icons in the Element OS web UI ............................................................................... 25 Providing feedback .................................................................................................... 26 System management ................................................................................... 27 Managing cluster administrator users ....................................................................... 27 SolidFire storage user types .......................................................................... 27 Cluster Admins details .................................................................................. 28 Creating a cluster admin account .................................................................. 28 Editing cluster admin permissions ................................................................ 29 Deleting a cluster admin account .................................................................. 30 Changing passwords for cluster administrator accounts ............................... 30 Managing LDAP ........................................................................................... 30 Configuring cluster settings ...................................................................................... 32 Setting cluster full threshold ......................................................................... 32 Encryption at rest .......................................................................................... 33 Enabling and disabling encryption for a cluster ............................................ 33 4 | NetApp SolidFire Element OS User Guide Managing Terms of Use ................................................................................ 34 Network time protocol .................................................................................. 35 Enabling a broadcast client ........................................................................... 35 Managing SNMP ........................................................................................... 35 Managing drives ............................................................................................ 37 Managing nodes ............................................................................................ 38 Viewing Fibre Channel ports details ............................................................. 41 Fibre Channel ports details ............................................................................ 41 Managing virtual networks ............................................................................ 42 Upgrading Element OS software ............................................................................... 45 Using HealthTools for software upgrades (Element OS 10.2 and later) ....... 45 Upgrading management node software ......................................................... 49 Upgrading Element OS 10.2 and later .......................................................... 50 Upgrading Element OS 10.2 and later on dark sites ..................................... 51 Upgrading software for versions earlier than Element OS 10.2 .................... 52 Data management ....................................................................................... 54 Working with accounts .............................................................................................. 54 Creating an account ....................................................................................... 54 Account details .............................................................................................. 55 Viewing individual account details ............................................................... 55 Editing an account ......................................................................................... 55 Deleting an account ....................................................................................... 56 Working with volumes .............................................................................................. 56 SolidFire Quality of Service .......................................................................... 57 QoS policies .................................................................................................. 59 Creating a volume ......................................................................................... 61 Volume details ............................................................................................... 61 Viewing individual volume performance details ........................................... 62 Editing active volumes .................................................................................. 63 Deleting a volume ......................................................................................... 64 Restoring a deleted volume ........................................................................... 65 Purging a volume ........................................................................................... 65 Cloning a volume .......................................................................................... 65 Assigning LUNs to Fibre Channel volumes ................................................. 67 Applying a QoS policy to volumes ............................................................... 67 Removing the QoS policy association of a volume ....................................... 67 Working with virtual volumes ................................................................................... 68 Enabling virtual volumes .............................................................................. 68 Viewing virtual volume details ...................................................................... 69 Virtual volume details ................................................................................... 70 Individual virtual volume details ................................................................... 71 Deleting a virtual volume .............................................................................. 72 Storage containers ......................................................................................... 73 Protocol endpoints ......................................................................................... 75 Bindings ........................................................................................................ 76 Table of Contents | 5 Bindings details ............................................................................................