InfiniBox Documentation and Best Practices in PDF format
Introduction
Getting Started
InfiniBox Management Consoles
- Overview of the InfiniBox Management Consoles
- System Defaults
- Using the InfiniBox API
- Accessing InfiniBox via HTTPS only
- Setting the message of the day
- Communicating with InfiniBox using an SSL certificate
Authentication and security
- Defining an Active Directory for for InfiniBox management
- FIPS Cryptography module
- Locking a local user
- Security mechanisms
- InfiniBox user management commands
- Setting the session timeout
Network connectivity and configuration
- Network routing table
- Deployment considerations for services
- Disabling a network interface
- Network connectivity glossary
- Deploying replication services with redundancy
- FC and Ethernet network diagrams
iSCSI connectivity
Pools
- Assigning a PoolAdmin to a pool
- Pool states in case of an unlimited emergency buffer
- Deleting a pool
- Querying for pools and their properties
- Unlocking a pool
- Overview of pools
Provisioning volumes
- Modifying a volume
- Refreshing a volume snapshot
- Querying for volumes and their properties
- Write-enabling and write-protecting a volume
- Overview of volumes
- Restoring a volume from its snapshot
Consistency groups
- Consistency group replication concepts
- Adding a member to a replicated consistency group
- Restoring a consistency group from a snapshot group
- Modifying a snapshot group
- Removing a member from a replicated consistency group
- Deleting a consistency group
Hosts and clusters
- Deleting a host
- Creating a cluster
- Setting the host security properties
- Unmapping a volume from a host or a cluster
- Adding a host to a cluster
- Mapping more than 32 hosts to a volume
Provisioning filesystems
- Querying for filesystems and their properties
- TreeQ limitations
- Overview of filesystem tree quota
- Restoring a filesystem from its snapshot
- Creating a snapshot of a filesystem
- Creating a filesystem
Sharing filesystems using NFS
- Modifying the advanced export settings
- Disabling an export of a filesystem or a snapshot
- Optimized reading and writing small files
- Non-UTF-8 character sets in NFS
- Modifying the permissions of an export
- Querying for NFS clients and their filesystems
Sharing filesystems using SMB
- Managing local SMB users and groups
- Managing InfiniBox's membership in Active Directory for SMB
- Authenticating and authorizing SMB users and groups
- Modifying share-level permissions
- InfiniBox SMB limitations and unsupported features
- Deleting an SMB share of a filesystem or a snapshot
VMware Virtual Volumes
Links
Replication
- Creating a replica
- Remote replication prerequisites
- Mapping the target to the host
- Overview of InfiniBox replicas
- Active-Active Forced Delete
- Active-Active and Async Concurrent Replication
Quality of service
Metadata
Compression
Encryption at-rest
InfiniSpares
Hardware monitoring
- Powering off the InfiniBox rack
- System temperature events
- Monitoring the system health
- Hardware-related events that were introduced in 4.0.30
- Handling faulty drives
- Overview of hardware monitoring
Performance monitoring
Event notification
InfiniBox software upgrade
Best Practice Guides for Services
- InfiniBox Best Practices Guide for Setting Up Fibre Channel
- InfiniBox Best Practices Guide for Setting Up a NAS Service
- InfiniBox Best Practices Guide for Setting Up Network Connectivity
- InfiniBox Best Practices Guide for Setting Up the Replication Service
- InfiniBox Best Practices Guide for Setting Up an iSCSI Service
Best Practice Guides for Ecosystem Integrations
- InfiniBox with SAP HANA Using Fibre Channel Best Practices Guide
- VMware vSphere Metro Storage Cluster with Infinidat InfiniBox Active-Active Replication
- InfiniBox with IBM PowerVC Best Practice Guide
- InfiniBox Host Configuration Best Practices for Microsoft Hyper-V
- InfiniBox with VMware Virtual Volumes Best Practice Guide
- InfiniBox with Dell EMC VPLEX Best Practice Guide