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StorageGRID 11.5

StorageGRID 11.5 Docs
Release notes
Get started
- Grid primer
- Networking guidelines
Install and upgrade software
Install and maintain hardware
Configure and manage
Use StorageGRID
Monitor and troubleshoot
Maintain
- Expand your grid
- Maintain & recover
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How StorageGRID manages data

11/22/2022 Contributors

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- Get started
  - Grid primer
    - About StorageGRID
    - How StorageGRID manages data
      - The life of an object
    - Using StorageGRID
      - Monitoring StorageGRID operations
        
        Viewing the Nodes page
      - Performing maintenance procedures
  - Networking guidelines
    - StorageGRID networking overview
      - Network topology examples
    - Deployment-specific networking considerations
    - Network port reference
- Install and upgrade software
  - Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS
    - Planning and preparation
      - Preparing the hosts
        
        Configuring the host network
    - Deploying virtual grid nodes
      - Creating node configuration files
    - Configuring the grid and completing installation
    - Automating the installation
  - Install Ubuntu or Debian
    - Planning and preparation
      - Preparing the hosts
        
        Configuring the host network
    - Deploying virtual grid nodes
      - Creating node configuration files
    - Configuring the grid and completing installation
    - Automating the installation
  - Install VMware
    - Planning and preparation
    - Deploying virtual machine grid nodes in VMware vSphere Web Client
    - Configuring the grid and completing installation
    - Automating the installation
      - Automating grid node deployment in VMware vSphere
        
        Defining the configuration file for your deployment
    - Troubleshooting installation issues
  - Upgrade software
    - About StorageGRID 11.5
    - Upgrade planning and preparation
      - Obtaining the required materials for a software upgrade
    - Performing the upgrade
    - Troubleshooting upgrade issues
- Install and maintain hardware
  - SG6000 storage appliances
    - SG6000 appliances overview
    - Preparing for installation
      - Reviewing appliance network connections
        
        Port bond modes for the SG6000-CN controller
    - Installing the hardware
    - Configuring the hardware
      - Configuring StorageGRID connections
      - Accessing and Configuring SANtricity System Manager
      - Configuring the BMC interface
    - Automating appliance installation and configuration
    - Troubleshooting the hardware installation
      - Troubleshooting connection issues
    - Maintaining the SG6000 appliance
      - Upgrading SANtricity OS on the storage controllers
      - Replacing the Fibre Channel HBA in the SG6000-CN controller
      - Monitoring node encryption in maintenance mode
  - SG5700 storage appliances
    - StorageGRID appliance overview
    - Preparing for installation
      - Reviewing appliance network connections
        
        Port bond modes for E5700SG controller ports
    - Installing the hardware
      - Viewing SG5700 boot-up status codes
    - Configuring the hardware
      - Configuring StorageGRID connections
      - Accessing and Configuring SANtricity System Manager
    - Automating appliance installation and configuration
    - Troubleshooting the hardware installation
      - Hardware setup appears to hang
      - Troubleshooting connection issues
    - Maintaining the SG5700 appliance
      - Upgrading SANtricity OS on the storage controller
      - Monitoring node encryption in maintenance mode
  - SG5600 storage appliances
    - StorageGRID appliance overview
    - Preparing for installation
      - Reviewing appliance network connections
        
        Port bond modes for the E5600SG controller ports
    - Installing the hardware
      - Viewing boot-up status and reviewing error codes on the SG5600 controllers
    - Configuring the hardware
      - Configuring StorageGRID connections
      - Configuring SANtricity Storage Manager
        
        Setting up SANtricity Storage Manager
    - Automating appliance installation and configuration
    - Troubleshooting the hardware installation
      - Hardware setup appears to hang
      - Troubleshooting connection issues
    - Maintaining the SG5600 appliance
      - Monitoring node encryption in maintenance mode
  - SG100 & SG1000 services appliances
    - Preparing for installation
      - Reviewing appliance network connections
        
        Port bond modes for the SG100 and SG1000 appliances
    - Installing the hardware
    - Configuring StorageGRID connections
    - Configuring the BMC interface
    - Deploying a services appliance node
      - Automating appliance installation and configuration
    - Troubleshooting the hardware installation
      - Troubleshooting connection issues
    - Maintaining the appliance
      - Monitoring node encryption in maintenance mode
- Configure and manage
  - Administer StorageGRID
    - Administering a StorageGRID system
      - Using the Grid Management API
    - Controlling administrator access to StorageGRID
      - Using single sign-on (SSO) for StorageGRID
        
        Configuring single sign-on
    - Configuring key management servers
      - Adding a key management server (KMS)
    - Managing tenants
      - Creating a tenant account
      - Managing platform services for S3 tenant accounts
    - Configuring S3 and Swift client connections
      - Managing load balancing
      - Managing untrusted Client Networks
      - Managing high availability groups
    - Managing StorageGRID networks and connections
      - Configuring server certificates
      - Managing traffic classification policies
      - What link costs are
    - Configuring AutoSupport
    - Managing Storage Nodes
      - Managing Storage Options
      - Configuring global settings for stored objects
    - Managing Admin Nodes
      - Configuring audit client access
        
        Configuring audit clients for CIFS
        
        Configuring the audit client for NFS
    - Managing Archive Nodes
      - What an Archive Node is
      - Configuring Archive Node connections to archival storage
        
        Archiving to the cloud through the S3 API
        
        Archiving to tape through TSM middleware
        
        Managing an Archive Node when TSM server reaches capacity
      - Integrating Tivoli Storage Manager
        
        Completing the Archive Node setup
        
        Configuring the TSM server
    - Migrating data into StorageGRID
  - Manage objects with ILM
    - Managing objects with information lifecycle management
      - How ILM operates throughout an object's life
        
        How objects are ingested
        
        How objects are stored (replication or erasure coding)
        
        How objects are deleted
      - What an ILM rule is
      - Creating storage grades, storage pools, EC profiles, and regions
        
        Configuring storage pools
        
        Using Cloud Storage Pools
        
        Creating a Cloud Storage Pool
        
        Configuring Erasure Coding profiles
      - Creating an ILM rule
        
        Step 1 of 3: Define basics
        
        Step 2 of 3: Define placements
      - Creating an ILM policy
        
        Simulating an ILM policy
    - Managing objects with S3 Object Lock
    - Example ILM rules and policies
  - System hardening
  - Configure StorageGRID for FabricPool
    - Information needed to attach StorageGRID as a cloud tier
    - Using StorageGRID information lifecycle management with FabricPool data
- Use StorageGRID
  - Use a tenant account
    - Using the Tenant Manager
      - Understanding the Tenant Management API
    - Managing system access for tenant users
      - Using identity federation
        
        Configuring a federated identity source
      - Managing groups
    - Managing S3 tenant accounts
      - Managing S3 access keys
      - Managing S3 buckets
        
        Using S3 Object Lock
    - Managing S3 platform services
      - What platform services are
      - Configuring platform services endpoints
      - Using the search integration service
  - Use S3 REST API
    - Support for the S3 REST API
    - How StorageGRID implements the S3 REST API
    - S3 REST API supported operations and limitations
      - Operations on objects
      - Operations for multipart uploads
    - Monitoring and auditing operations
      - Accessing and reviewing audit logs
    - Benefits of active, idle, and concurrent HTTP connections
  - Use Swift REST API
    - OpenStack Swift API support in StorageGRID
    - Swift REST API supported operations
- Monitor and troubleshoot
  - Monitor a StorageGRID system
    - Using the Grid Manager for monitoring
      - Viewing the Nodes page
    - Information you should monitor regularly
      - Monitoring system health
      - Monitoring storage capacity
      - Monitoring performance, networking, and system resources
    - Managing alerts and alarms
    - Using SNMP monitoring
    - Collecting additional StorageGRID data
      - Using charts and reports
        
        Types of charts and graphs
      - Monitoring events
    - Alerts reference
    - Alarms reference (legacy system)
    - Log files reference
      - About the bycast.log
  - Troubleshoot a StorageGRID system
    - Troubleshooting object and storage issues
      - Troubleshooting lost and missing object data
  - Review audit logs
    - Audit message overview
    - Audit log file and message formats
      - Audit log file format
      - Audit message format
    - Audit messages and the object lifecycle
      - Object ingest transactions
      - Object delete transactions
      - Object retrieve transactions
      - Metadata update messages
    - Audit messages
      - Audit message categories
      - Audit messages
- Maintain
  - Expand your grid
    - Planning a StorageGRID expansion
      - Adding storage capacity
    - Adding storage volumes to Storage Nodes
    - Adding grid nodes to an existing site or adding a new site
    - Configuring your expanded StorageGRID system
  - Maintain & recover
    - Introduction to StorageGRID recovery and maintenance
    - StorageGRID hotfix procedure
    - Grid node recovery procedures
      - Gathering required materials for grid node recovery
      - Recovering from Storage Node failures
        
        Recovering a StorageGRID appliance Storage Node
        
        Recovering from storage volume failure where the system drive is intact
        
        Recovering from system drive failure
      - Recovering from Admin Node failures
        
        Recovering from primary Admin Node failures
        
        Recovering from non-primary Admin Node failures
      - Recovering from Gateway Node failures
      - Recovering from Archive Node failures
      - All grid node types: Replacing a Linux node
        
        Restoring grid nodes to the host
        
        Restoring and validating grid nodes
      - Replacing a failed node with a services appliance
    - Decommission procedure
      - Grid node decommissioning
        
        Preparing to decommission grid nodes
        
        Considerations for decommissioning grid nodes
        
        Considerations for decommissioning Storage Nodes
      - Site decommissioning
    - Network maintenance procedures
      - Configuring IP addresses
      - Configuring DNS servers
    - Host-level and middleware procedures
      - Linux: Migrating a grid node to a new host
    - Grid node procedures
      - Rebooting a grid node
      - Powering off and on all nodes in the grid
      - Using a DoNotStart file
      - Troubleshooting Server Manager
    - Appliance node cloning

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As you begin working with the StorageGRID system, it is helpful to understand how the StorageGRID system manages data.

What an object is
How object data is protected
The life of an object

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