Administrator’s Command Line Guide
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Accessing Acronis Storage Clusters via iSCSI
- Preparing to Work with Acronis Storage iSCSI Targets
- Creating and Running Acronis Storage iSCSI Targets
- Listing Acronis Storage iSCSI Targets
- Transferring Acronis Storage iSCSI Targets Between Acronis Storage Nodes
- Stopping Acronis Storage iSCSI Targets
- Deleting Acronis Storage iSCSI Targets
- Configuring Multipath I/O for Acronis Storage iSCSI Targets
- Managing CHAP Accounts for Acronis Storage iSCSI Targets
- Managing LUN Snapshots
- Accessing Acronis Storage Clusters via S3 Protocol
- Monitoring Acronis Storage Clusters
- Managing Cluster Security
- Maximizing Cluster Performance
3.1. About Object Storage
• Object server (OS) stores actual object data (contents) received from S3 gateway. It stores its own data
in regular Acronis Storage with built-in high availability.
• Name server stores object metadata received from S3 gateway. Metadata includes object name, size,
ACL (access control list), location, owner, and such. Name server (NS) also stores its own data in regular
Acronis storage with built-in high availability.
• S3 gateway (GW) is a data proxy between object storage services and end users. It receives and handles
Amazon S3 protocol requests and uses nginx Web server for external connections. S3 gateway handles
S3 user authentication and ACL checks. It has no data of its own (i.e. is stateless).
• Block level backend is regular Acronis storage with high availability of services and data. Since all object
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