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HP P4000 G2 5 Administration tools, Share and Storage Management, Remote Desktop for Administration

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5 Administration tools

HP StorageWorks P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateways include several administration tools to simplify storage system management tasks.

Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 administration tools

Microsoft® Windows® Storage Server 2008 R2 operating systems provide a user interface for initial server configuration, unified storage system management, simplified setup and management of storage and shared folders, and support for Microsoft iSCSI Software Target. It is specially tuned to provide optimal performance for network-attached storage. Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 provides significant enhancements in share and storage management scenarios, as well as integration of storage system management components and functionality.

Remote Desktop for Administration

You can remotely administer storage systems by using Remote Desktop for Administration (formerly known as Terminal Services in Remote Administration mode). You can use it to administer a computer from virtually any computer on your network. Based on Terminal Services technology, Remote Desktop for Administration is specifically designed for server management.

Remote Desktop for Administration does not require the purchase of special licenses for client computers that access the server. It is not necessary to install Terminal Server Licensing when using Remote Desktop for Administration.

You can use Remote Desktop for Administration to log on to the server remotely with any of the following features:

•Remote Desktop Connection

•Remote Web Administration

•Windows Server Remote Administration Applet

For more information, see the Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Help.

Share and Storage Management

With the Share and Storage Management snap-in provided in this release, you can more easily set up and manage shared folders and storage. Share and Storage Management provides the following:

•MMC-based management of shared folders and storage.

•Provision Storage Wizard for creating and configuring storage for file sharing and block sharing, including creating LUNs on storage subsystems, as well as creating and formatting volumes on LUNs or server disks.

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Contents

HP StorageWorks P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateway User Guide Acknowledgements Warranty Contents 5 Administration tools 6 File server management 7 Troubleshooting, servicing, and maintenance 8 Support and other resources 9 System recovery A Regulatory compliance notices Index Figures Page Tables P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateway front panel LED descriptions P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateway rear panel LED descriptions 1 Component identification Figure 2 P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateway front panel LEDs Table 1 P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateway front panel LED descriptions Item / Description Status Figure 3 P4000 G2 Unified NAS Gateway rear panel components Page Page 2 Installing and configuring the server Page Page 2.Click OK 3.Type an Administrator password in the New password box 4.Re-typethe Administrator password in the Confirm password box 5.Click the blue arrow next to the Confirm password box 6.Click OK To manually activate your copy of Windows: 2.Record the product key located on the Certificate of Authenticity 3.In Control Panel, double-clickSystem 4.Under Windows Activation, click Activate Windows Now Follow the Using the remote browser method Enabling Telnet Default boot sequence Page Page 3 Cluster configuration Set IP addresses for the network connections Page 4.Identify the public and private connections: a.Right-clickone of the connections and select Status Figure 7 Private connection status Figure 8 Public connection status b.After identifying the private and public connections, click Close Join both storage servers to the domain Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page 4 Cluster administration •FTP file share resources •iSCSI resources Cluster groups Virtual servers Failover and failback Storage planning Network planning A cluster uses at least two network connections on each node: Protocol planning Table 4 Sharing protocol cluster support Protocol Client Variant Node-basedcluster groups Load balancing Resource planning Permissions and access rights on share resources NFS cluster-specificissues Creating physical disk resources Creating file share resources Creating NFS share resources Best practices for running Server for NFS in a server cluster Creating a cluster printer spooler Failing over and failing back Restarting one cluster node File Sharing > Shared Folders > Sessions Shutting down one cluster node Powering down the cluster The power down process is divided into two main steps: 1.Shutting down the cluster nodes 2.Removing power from the cluster nodes Powering up the cluster 5 Administration tools Groveler service - The Groveler service scans the Backup and recovery by using SIS has the following requirements: •The backup software used must support SIS-enabledvolumes Print Management Network File System (NFS) User Mapping NFS Account Mapping in Windows Server 2008 R2 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID Microsoft hotfix Phase 1 scripts Phase 2 scripts Script execution Verifying script execution Page Shared access example Page Page Page Page Page Page Page 6 File server management Array management utilities Array Configuration Utility Disk Management utility Adding storage Expanding storage Extending storage using Windows Storage Utilities Shadow copy planning Identifying the volume Allocating disk space Identifying the storage area Determining creation frequency fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo Mounted drives Managing shadow copies The shadow copy cache file Enabling and creating shadow copies Viewing a list of shadow copies Set schedules Viewing shadow copy properties Redirecting shadow copies to an alternate volume Disabling shadow copies Managing shadow copies from the storage system desktop Shadow Copies for Shared Folders SMB shadow copies NFS shadow copies Recovery of files or folders Recovering a deleted file or folder Recovering an overwritten or corrupted file Recovering a folder Backup and shadow copies Managing file-levelpermissions Page Figure 36 Advanced Security settings dialog box, Permissions tab 36 and includes: •Add a new user or group—ClickAdd, and then follow the dialog box instructions •Remove a user or group— Click Remove Modify specific permissions assigned to a particular user or Page Page Page Share considerations Defining Access Control Lists Integrating local file system security into Windows domain environments Comparing administrative (hidden) and standard shares Managing shares File screening management Storage reports •Generate storage reports instantly Backup HP StorageWorks Library and Tape Tools Antivirus Page 7 Troubleshooting, servicing, and maintenance System updates 8 Support and other resources •http://www.hp.com/support/downloads •http://www.hp.com/storage/whitepapers Table 6 Document conventions Convention Element Page Page 9 System recovery Create a System Recovery USB Flash Drive 11.Enter format fs=fat32 quick 12.Enter active to mark the partition as active assign letter=<drive letter assign letter=U 14.Insert the System Recovery DVD provided with the system Page A Regulatory compliance notices Class A equipment Class B equipment Japanese VCCI-Anotice Japanese VCCI-Bnotice Japanese power cord statement Page English laser notice Dutch laser notice French laser notice German laser notice Italian laser notice Japanese laser notice Spanish laser notice English notice Bulgarian notice Czech notice Danish notice Dutch notice Estonian notice Finnish notice French notice German notice Greek notice Hungarian notice Italian notice Latvian notice Lithuanian notice Polish notice Portuguese notice Romanian notice Slovak notice Spanish notice Swedish notice Turkish notice Dutch battery notice French battery notice German battery notice Italian battery notice Japanese battery notice Spanish battery notice Index