Feature

Version 2.0

Version 3.0

 

 

 

CIFS home shares

Clients can access CIFS

Version 3.0 does not include the “homes”

 

home shares in two ways:

access method. After the upgrade, the “homes”

 

\\<client_VIP_or_name>

share will not be present, and clients will need

 

to use the “username” access method instead.

 

\<path_prefix>\<username>

 

If you have a policy that mounts the \

 

\\<client_VIP_or_name>

 

\<client_VIP_or_name>\homes share when

 

\homes

 

client systems start, you must change the

 

Both access methods point

 

policy to mount the \\<client_VIP_or_name>

 

to the same folder.

\<path_prefix>\<username> share.

Local user names

A period can be used as the

A period cannot be used as the last character

 

last

of a local user name.

 

character of a local user

Before upgrading, delete local user names that

 

name.

have a period as the last character and re‐

 

 

create the accounts with a different name.

Local users and local

A unique UID (user ID) or GID

groups UID/GID range

(group ID) can be configured

 

 

for

 

local users and local groups.

Guest account

By default, unmapped users

mapping policy

are

 

mapped to the guest

 

account, which allows a

 

guest account to access a file

 

if the CIFS share allows guest

 

access.

NDMP client port

The NDMP client port must

 

be in

 

the range 1–65536.

The UID/GID range for local users and local groups is 1001 to 100,000. There is no way to configure or determine the UID/GID of local users and local groups. This information is internal to the FluidFS cluster.

During the upgrade, any existing local users and local

groups from version 2.0 with a UID/GID that is outside the version 3.0 UID/GID range will remain unchanged. Local users and local groups created after the upgrade will use the version 3.0 UID/GID range.

Unmapped users cannot access any CIFS share, regardless of whether the CIFS share allows guest access.

Guest access is enabled automatically after the upgrade only if there are guest users already defined for any CIFS shares in version 2.0.

The NDMP client port must be in the range 10000–10100.

Before upgrading, the NDMP client port must be changed to be in the range 10000–10100. You must also make the reciprocal change on the DMA servers.

Replication ports

TCP ports 10560–10568 and

TCP ports 10550–10551 and 10560–10568 are

 

26 are used for replication.

used for replication.

Snapshot schedules

Snapshot schedules can be

Snapshot schedules cannot be disabled.

 

disabled.

During the upgrade, disabled snapshot

 

 

 

 

schedules from version 2.0 are deleted.

Internal subnet

The internal (interconnect)

 

subnet

 

can be changed from a Class

 

C

 

subnet during or after

 

deployment.

The internal subnet must be a Class C subnet.

Before upgrading, the internal subnet must be changed to a Class C subnet, otherwise the service pack installation will fail with the following message:

“Please allocate a new C-class subnet for FluidFS Internal Network, run the following

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