ACCESS TRAINING:

Nexenta Training April 2019

GTM:

https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/876165637

Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone.

Access Code: 876-165-637

You can also dial in using your phone.

United States (Toll Free): +1 866 899 4679

United States: +1 (571) 317-3117

Austria (Toll Free): 0 800 202144

Slovakia (Toll Free): 0 800 132 608

South Africa (Toll Free): 0 800 555 451

Class:

https://training.nexenta.com/classroom01

Notes:

https://it.it-news-and-events.info/nexenta/2019-April-Training/access.txt

Nexenta Docs:

https://nexenta.com/products/documentation

Dark site upgrade instructions included in

https://prodpkg.nexenta.com/nstor/5.1.2.0/docs/NS-5.1-Installation-Guide-RevA.pdf

ISO for NexentaStore 5.x and NexentaFusion 1.x

 https://nexenta.com/products/downloads/nexentastor5

Login as a student - student1, student2, etc

Password is nexentA01

Each student has several VMs:

- a windows desktop/server (admin desktop + iSCSI client + CIFs client)

- two NexentaStor nodes (aka "heads" or "servers") - storage cluster

- a linux system - your NFS client

- a NexentaFusion instance - your management GUI

From the guacamole web page, you can launch a windows desktop or an SSH session to an
NexentaStor server.

Those will open in a separate browser tab.

To login to the Windows desktop, use studentX and password nexentA01

To login to the NexentaStor servers via ssh, use admin and nexentA01

The naming convention is sXnX. So, for student 3, their two nexenta nodes are s3n1 and s3n2.

The IP addresses/conventions are

192.168.0.11 10's of the 4th number for the student number: node 1, 2, VIP

192.168.1.11 Same but on the iSCSI network. Can be used for heartbeat

admin/nexenta change once you login to nexentA01!

192.168.0.10 s1-win s1-win.edu.nexenta.com

192.168.0.11 s1n1 s1n1.edu.nexenta.com

192.168.0.12 s1n2 s1n2.edu.nexenta.com

192.168.0.13 s1-ubuntu s1-ubuntu.edu.nexenta.com

192.168.0.13 s1-fusion s1-fusion.edu.nexenta.com

student 1's NexentaFusion server - on port 8457

http://192.168.0.13:8457

## IP Addresses to use for VIP's in cluster.

192.168.0.111 s1-vip1 s1-vip1.edu.nexenta.com

192.168.0.112 s1-vip2 s1-vip2.edu.nexenta.com

Each student environment is unconfigured and unlicensed. Please use these license tokens

student assignments are

Student

# First Last firm email token

1 John McLaughlin Nexenta [email protected]

E9DE4D35-DEAA-47E3-9556-46A3804C9215

2 Christian Linhart ML11 [email protected] 631E6F5F-

FC6F-4E59-9521-50C861F41289

3 Horacio Rojas Flexential [email protected] DC83B75C-

E87B-475C-A83E-2549C699AC08

4 Ivan Zorvan HPE [email protected] 5027CED5-

B1F4-43E0-B193-29C266B0E8B8

5 Joe Hockey Flexential [email protected] 0BA298A7-

6A69-44B4-B1E8-2DDA9003F389

6 Michael Kohlhauser ML11 [email protected] 66760DB9-

1670-480D-A807-E52A29297405

7 Mzi Ndimande VNA [email protected]

E352A1BA-34F2-400A-BA46-41BAFFCB32F7

8 Radko Pal HPE [email protected] 2CCED926-

D4A2-4555-8505-DE1A855E3EF9

9 Randy Nelson Flexential [email protected] 065FF570-

F2EC-4196-B42E-C37F3886EC4A
10 Tarun Misra VNA [email protected]
2CD37A0E-79B7-4E1C-8BCB-4118D4E0CAA9

11 Zaaher Ismail VNA [email protected] 50A314C6-

CE61-4188-9161-3383C5F0D2F4

12 Brent Huntsman Flexential [email protected]

26B13440-4C0E-4F83-8C14-BE03B6AED0C7

Useful CLI commands

Getting Started

license activate <token>

license show

Upgrade

software version

system status

software upgrade

Review

software list

system status

Date/Time

config list system.date

e.g. config set system.date=3/31/2017 9:20:00

svc set servers=pool.ntp.org ntp

svc list ntp

svc enable ntp

config list system.date

uptime

alias date="config list system.date"

 date

Set Management Address

config get all system.managementAddress

config set system.managementAddress=<IP>

Inventory

enclosure list

disk list

inventory nic

link list

route list

ip list

net list host

net list dns

Dedicated Heartbeat

ip create static bge0/heartbeat 192.168.0.1/24

Rename a host and change timezone

config set system.hostName=

config set system.timeZone=US/Eastern

Change Admin Password

user passwd -p newpass admin

Configuring SMTP Email Service

config get value system.administratorEmail

config set system.administratorEmail=XXXX@XX

config get all alert

config set [email protected]

config list | grep smtp

Example:

config set smtp.host=smtp.gmail.com

config set smtp.port=465

config set smtp.useSsl=True

config set smtp.useTls=True

config set smtp.authMethods=PLAIN

config set [email protected]

config set smtp.password=nexenta1

config set [email protected]

NOTE: If you use gmail as in this example, you may have to login via the web and change a
setting to allow for less secure access

system smtp-test

FC

config set system.fcDefaultPortMode=target

Verifying Enclosure and Disk Information

enclosure list

enclosure get all

 disk list

disk get all

Managing Networks

Interfaces

link list

link get all e1000g0

inventory nic

Addresses

ip create static

e.g. ip create static e1000g1/v4 10.3.10.38/24

ip list

DNS

net create dns 8.8.8.8

net list dns

Network Route

route create <dest.> <gateway>

route list default

Aggregating NICs

link create aggr [-P ] [-L ] [-T ] [- u ] ...

Example: link create aggr aggr1 e1000g1,e1000g2

Using VLANs

link assign vlan

Example: link assign vlan vlan22 22 e1000g1

Example: link assign vlan vlan22 22 aggr1

link list

Pool

pool create-auto <redundancy> <pool> -M <max-devices>[-c <vdev-size>] [-t <media-type>]

[-s <disk-size>] [-r <rpm>] [-N] [-e <enclosures>] [-R altroot] [-o <properties>] [--config-
output=<flags>]

Example:

pool create-auto mirror poola-auto -c 2 -e e1,e2,e3 -M 120 -t hdd -s 2TB

pool list <pool name>

When creating a pool, you can force to utilize the disks even if they are currently in use by
using the -f flag.

Create a new non-clustered pool with two 3-disk raidz vdevs,

using the same disks as before

a. pool create-auto raidz1 vol01 -M 6 -c 3 -N

b. -c 3 tells it to make each vdev 3 devices

c. Type y when prompted to confirm.

d. disk list -u to identify unused disks

e. pool add vol01 cache <diskName>

f. disk list -u to identify unused disks

g. pool add vol01 log mirror <disk1Name> <disk2Name>

h. pool status vol01 to confirm configuration

 pool set autoexpand=yes poola

Configuring HA Cluster

svc list ha

net list host

On each node, create a host entry for the other node with net create host <IP> <name>

on s1n1: net create host 192.168.0.12 s1n2

on s1n2: net create host 192.168.0.11 s1n1

Verify times on each node

config list system.date

hacluster create [-fnv] [-d ] [-H ]

** use -f

Example: hacluster create -d "S1 test cluster" s1n1,s1n2 s1cluster

hacluster status

hacluster status -e

To add net heartbeat:

hacluster add-net-heartbeat [-nyv] <first-node> <first-ip> <second-node> <second-ip>

Example:

hacluster add-net-heartbeat -v s1n1 192.168.1.11 s1n2 192.168.1.12

To add disk heartbeat:

 hacluster add-disk-heartbeat [-nyv] <first-node> <second-node> <service> <disk>

Example: hacluster add-disk-heartbeat smc-53-109 smc-53-110 hb c2t0d0

To add a VIP called vip22 on an interface called vlan22 configured over VLAN 22

haservice add-vip mypool vip22 128.2.126.232/255.255.255.224 s1n1:vlan22,s1n2:vlan22

Connect to Nexenta Fusion

192.168.0.101 student 1's NexentaFusion server - on port 8457

http://192.168.0.101:8457

admin/nexenta change one login to Nexenta123!

Use cog on upper right to access settings

Select DATE/TIME

Select NTP

Select Timezone

reboot

Register

https://nexenta.com/products/downloads/nexentastor5

https://nexenta.elmegil.net/Scripts/fe.tgz

----------

iozone and some other tools:

http://sea.zfsdestroy.com/tools.tgz

Essentially the 4.x binaries work on 5.x., I have fio and iozone in there as well.
Determine back-end and front end performance characteristics with iozone:

Create an iozone-test folder with compression disabled, 32k records.

The synthetic data file created by iozone be highly compressed, leading to silly, meaningless results

Install iozone

Run several tests in the iozone-test folder

start with a small data file size and small number of threads to validate test in a short period of time

iozone -ec -r 32 -s 982m -l 2 -i 0 -i 1 -i 8

finish with a big data file size and larger number of threads

iozone -ec -r 32 -s 98282m -l 6 -i 0 -i 1 -i 8

use a big data file to minimize caching

use multiple threads to generate multiple, parallel I/O requests

don't get too carried away or else the system will be spending too much time running the
benchmark and not enough time doing I/O

make sure iozone runs for many hours - perhaps over night - to "burn in" the system

If you have two nodes, share the iozone folder to the other node and run the iozone tests via NFS.
That will show the peak performance with no network switch or competing traffic.

In addition to setting expectations for production performance, iozone can be used to stress the
system and shake out errors. Check logs and run commands like

iostat -en
to look for errors