Operating Host PowerTools via GUI
Windows
Run the Host PowerTools GUI from the Start menu.
The Host PowerTools main screen opens.
Other Operating Systems
The GUI is web-based.
- In order to access the GUI, run the following command:
infinihost-gui
- If the host has a browser, the GUI opens.
- On hosts that do not have a browser - the command returns a URL that can be used on another host that does have a browser.
For example:
> infinihost-gui GUI page is available in the following URL: http://172.16.90.131:46020/plugin/views/host/?auth_key=0629d025-5754-4135-afed-be9f85b71918
Operating Host PowerTools via CLI
In order to operate Host PowerTools via command line, use the "Infinihost" tool.
To invoke on-line help on the available commands, type:
infinihost
The help is displayed on the screen. Each of the options is displayed further along this document.
OS-specific commands
Filesystem support
- The following commands are not available on Solaris (10 & 11), AIX, Veritas and OpenStack:
infinihost volume create-filesystem
infinihost volume mount
infinihost volume unmount
- Also,
infinihost volume provision
doesn't support the flags:--filesystem
,--no-filesystem
,--mount
,--no-mount
iSCSI
- The following commands are not available on Solaris 10, AIX and OpenStack:
infinihost protocol set
infinihost protocol get
infinihost iscsi connect
infinihost iscsi disconnect
iSCSI CHAP
- CHAP security is not available on Solaris 11:
infinihost iscsi connect
only supports--security=none
OpenStack
- in addition to iSCSI connections and filesystem supports, on OpenStack we disable most volume operations (provision, map, unmap, resize, rename, speedtest) and also "
metadata sync
" and "system register
". The OpenStack Cinder service is responsible for these operations.
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