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NFS permissions on a directory

I feel stupid not knowing this, but alas, I need to ask. I have a few directories being automounted via NFS on my CentOS boxes. Source is a Dell NAS or Openfiler (which we are working on migrating from). The default owner.group is root.root with 755…
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Openfiler AD integration and controlled access

I integrated Openfiler with an Active Directory. I configured a SMB/CIFS share as Controlled Access and set domain admins = PG and domain users = RO. This should give domain users readonly access to the share. When I open a share from a Vista…
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jumbo frames network configuration /w esxi, openfiler

After some reading, this is how I think my small business network setup should look like. SAN Network (192.168.10.0/24, 1000mbps, jumbo frames enabled) Managed cisco switch 2 x ESXi host (2 x 1Gbps Ports each, No HA) OpenFiler /w iSCSI MPIO (2 x…
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Acquiring new servers to run ESXi and SAN/NAS

Here is our goal: Setup new servers to turn our entire physical computer network into 3 physical groups, which are: Server 1 - NAS - Openfiler/NexentaStor CE/FreeNAS/(Other Suggestions) Server 2 - ESXi Server with the following VM's: VM1 -…
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ESXi 4.1 iSCSI won't create partition the full size of the Openfiler Volume

I created an iSCSI volume in Openfiler. Volume name Volume description Volume size File system type File system size FS used space FS free space Delete Properties Snapshots backup Backup Storage 3717536 MB iSCSI Not…
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NAS software options?

I want to build a NAS that supports hard links (linux based, NFS?) due to the software that will use it. I need some kind of RAID in case of a single drive failure. I really like FlexRaid, but it does not support hard links. FreeNAS has a nice RAID…
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SATA I on 4x 2tb RAID5 array does it matter its 1.5gbs SATA I not 3.0gbs SATA II

Just installed 4 2tb Hitachi 5K3000 drives into a IBM x3500 7977 server. It's got a adaptec 8k serveraid card. Turns out it doesn't detect the drives as Sata II 3.0gbs. It only see's them as Sata I 1.5gbs. I checked and it appears there's a issue…
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OpenFiler and Raid 1

I am looking to deploy a new OpenFiler NAS box. I have setup 2 1TB drives for Raid 1 (software raid built into OpenFiler)and the boot is on a 320GB HDD. When trying to simulate a crash (remove one of the 1tb drives)the system hangs...and…
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Configuring Openfiler 2.3 iSCSI as VM for large file storage (backup server)

Does anyone here use Openfiler as VM for the iSCSI datastore ? I'd like to know how do you set it as your Virtual Machine and what's the performance so far ? My primary goal is to present the Openfiler as iSCSI storage larger than 2 TB to my Windows…
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OpenFiler performance tuning best practice for iSCSI Windows file server use

I'd like to setup my OpenFiler to host very large files to act as the Backup files repository so mainly the primary use is the Backup servers >2 TB is there any best practice documentation that i can/should follow in order to achieve reliability and…
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HD Power Saving with OpenFiler

Does OpenFiler support power saving when used with software raid? I have only seen it mentioned as "planned for the future".
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Using Openfiler inside a virtualmachine and VmWare Fault Tolerance

currently I have 2 servers with Fault Tolerance working with another server with openfiler as a iSCSI server (looks like without that Fault Tolerance does not work). I would like to remove that server and put the openfiler distribution as another…
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Running OpenFiler inside XenServer to provide Storage to other Xen instances

I'm setting up a Testbed to run some tests on Xen, since I would like to use live migration I was thinking about using iSCSI as a storage, but I only got 2 machines for my quick setup. So my idea is to run OpenFiler inside XenServer A to provide…
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Poor NFS Performance: OpenFiler

Good Day Everyone, I have an issue with OpenFiler, a Linux-based operating that converts a computer system into a SAN/NAS appliance. Here is the problem. In my environment we have two Netapp Storevault 500 appliances that I normally perform backups…
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Unable to mount cifs in redhat 6

I am relatively new to Linux, and I am trying to mount a CIFS filesystem from an openfiler instance I have on my network in Red Hat. The openfiler instance is authenticating using AD. I am able to connect using samba: smbclient…
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