Administrator Guide

Dedicated FluidFS Replay Proles
For FluidFS deployments, Storage Manager creates a dedicated FluidFS replay that is automatically assigned to FluidFS LUNs
(storage volumes). The prole setting defaults to Daily, and the retention policy is to delete after 25 hours.
Creating On-Demand Snapshots
Create a NAS volume snapshot to take an immediate point-in-time copy of the data.
1. Click the Storage view and select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab.
3. In the File System tab navigation pane, expand NAS Volumes and select a NAS volume.
4. In the right pane, click the Snapshots & Clones tab.
5. Click Create Snapshot. The Create Snapshot dialog box appears.
6. In the Snapshot Name eld, type a name for the snapshot.
7. (Optional) Congure the remaining snapshot attributes as needed. These options are described in the online help.
• To retain the snapshot indenitely, clear the Enable Expiration check box.
• To expire the snapshot in the future, select the Enable Expiration check box and specify a day and time on which to expire
the snapshot.
8. Click OK.
Managing Scheduled Snapshots
You can create a schedule to generate snapshots regularly. To minimize the impact of snapshot processing on system performance,
schedule snapshots during o-peak times. Snapshots created by a snapshot schedule are named using this format
<snapshot_schedule_name>_YYYY_MM_DD__HH_MM
Create a Snapshot Schedule for a NAS Volume
Create a NAS volume snapshot schedule to take a scheduled point-in-time copy of the data.
1. Click the Storage view.
2. In the Storage pane, select a FluidFS cluster.
3. Click the File System tab.
4. In the File System tab navigation pane, expand NAS Volumes and select a NAS volume.
5. In the right pane, click the Snapshots & Clones tab.
6. Click Create Snapshot Schedule. The Create Snapshot Schedule dialog box appears.
7. In the Schedule Name eld, type a name for the snapshot schedule.
8. Specify when to create snapshots.
• To create a snapshot based on a period of time, select the Take snapshot every option and type the frequency in minutes,
hours, days, or weeks.
• To create a snapshot based on day and time, select the Take snapshot on option and select the days and times.
9. (Optional) Congure the remaining snapshot schedule attributes as needed. Replication provides three dierent snapshot
retention policies: Identical (default), No history, and Archive with Retention Period in Days. These options are described in the
online help.
• To retain all snapshots that are created by the snapshot schedule indenitely, clear the Take snapshot every option.
• To expire the snapshots that are created by the snapshot schedule in the future, select the Take snapshot every option and
specify the retention period for snapshots in minutes, hours, days, or weeks in the adjacent elds.
Storage Manager has a Retain Each Snapshot for checkbox. When enabled, you can specify a value for minutes, hours, days,
or weeks.
10. Click OK.
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