Quantum 3.5 manual Installing the StorNext Client on IBM AIX

Installing the StorNext Client on IBM AIX

Chapter 3 Installing the StorNext Client

Installing the StorNext Client on Linux or Unix

7Create a mount point for the file system. At the command prompt, type:

mkdir -p<mount point> chmod 777 <mount point>

where <mount point> is the directory path where you want the file system to be mounted. For example: /stornext/snfs1

8Configure the file system to automatically mount after reboot. To do this, edit the /etc/fstab file so that it contains the following line:

<mount point> <mount point> cvfs rw,fsname=<file system> 0 0

where <mount point> is the directory path created in step 7 and <file system> is the name of the StorNext file system.

9Reboot the client system.

After reboot, the StorNext file system is mounted at the mount point you specified.

Note: To manually mount a file system, at the command prompt, type:

mount -F cvfs <mount point> <mount point>

where <mount point> is the directory path where you want the file system to be mounted.

To run the StorNext client software on IBM AIX, first install the client software package, and then configure the client.

1Log on to the client system as root.

2Change to the directory where the client software archive file you downloaded from the MDC is located.

3Extract the software archive file. At the command prompt, type: tar xf <archive name>

where <archive name> is the name of the software archive file you downloaded from the MDC.

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