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StorageGRID 11.5

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- 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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Installing the hardware

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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Hardware installation entails installing the appliance into a cabinet or rack, connecting the cables, and applying power.

Steps

Registering the hardware
Installing the appliance in a cabinet or rack (SG5700)
Cabling the appliance (SG5700)
Connecting power cords and applying power (SG5700)
Viewing SG5700 boot-up status codes

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