HP Enterprise File Services WAN Accelerator manual Modifying NFS, Server Settings

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2. Use the controls to set NFS options, as described in the following table.

 

 

 

Control

 

Description

 

 

 

General

 

Enable NFS Optimization. Specify this option to enable NFS-application streamlining

 

 

(optimization). You enable NFS-application optimization where NFS performance over

 

 

the WAN is impacted by a high latency environment.

 

 

 

 

 

Enable NFS v2 and v4 Alarms. Specify this option to enable alarm notification when

 

 

v2 and v4 traffic is detected.

 

 

 

 

 

Default Server Policy. Select one of the following options from the drop-down list to

 

 

configure the default policy for NFS servers:

 

 

Global Read-Write. Specifies a policy that provides a trade-off of performance for

 

 

data consistency. All of the data can be accessed from any client, including LAN based

 

 

NFS clients (which do not go through the HP EFS WAN Accelerators) and clients

 

 

using other file protocols like CIFS. This option severely restricts the optimizations

 

 

that can be applied without introducing consistency problems. This is the default

 

 

configuration.

 

 

Custom. Click Custom to display the Enable Root Squashing check box. Click

 

 

Enable Root Squashing and Apply to enable the root squash feature for NFS volumes

 

 

from this server. Root-squashing allows an NFS server to map any incoming user ID 0

 

 

or guest ID 0 to another number that does not have superuser privileges, often -2 (the

 

 

nobody user).

 

 

Home Directory. All accesses to each directory are by a single user. This policy allows

 

 

aggressive caching of data and metadata.

 

 

 

 

 

Default Volume Policy. Select one of the following options from the drop-down list to

 

 

configure the default policy for NFS volumes:

 

 

Global Read-Write. Specifies a policy that provides a trade-off of performance for

 

 

data consistency. All of the data can be accessed from any client, including LAN based

 

 

NFS clients (which do not go through the HP EFS WAN Accelerators) and clients

 

 

using other file protocols such as CIFS. This option severely restricts the optimizations

 

 

that can be applied without introducing consistency problems. This is the default

 

 

configuration.

 

 

Custom. Click Custom to display the Enable Root Squashing check box. Click

 

 

Enable Root Squashing and Apply to enable the root squash feature for NFS volumes

 

 

from this server. Root-squashing allows an NFS server to map any incoming user ID 0

 

 

or guest ID 0 to another number that does not have superuser privileges, often -2 (the

 

 

nobody user).

 

 

Home Directory. All accesses to each directory are by a single user. This policy allows

 

 

aggressive caching of data and metadata.

 

 

 

 

 

Apply. Click Apply to apply your settings to the running configuration. (Apply your

 

 

settings to test a new configuration before saving them permanently.)

 

 

 

Add New Server Configuration

 

Name. Specify the name of the server to add a new configuration for an NFS server.

 

 

 

 

 

Server IP. Specify the IP address of the server and click Add Server.

 

 

 

 

 

Remove Selected Servers. To remove an entry, click the check box next to the name and

 

 

click Remove Selected Servers.

 

 

Modifying NFS

You can modify your NFS server configuration settings in the Setup: Optimization

Server Settings

Service - Protocol: NFS Server <server name> page.

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