GUI

Getting Started wizard with operations for managing the Access Appliance.

Centralized dashboard and Quick Actions with operations for managing your storage.

See the GUI and the Online Help for more information.

RESTful APIs

Enables automation using scripts, which run storage administration commands against the Access Appliance cluster.

See the Access Appliance RESTful API Guide for more information.

Command-line interface (CLI)

Single point of administration for the entire cluster.

See the manual pages for more information.

Supported protocols

Managing application I/O workloads using maximum IOPS settings

The MAXIOPS limit determines the maximum number of I/Os processed per second collectively by the storage underlying the file system.

See About managing application I/O workloads using maximum IOPS settings.

Snapshot

Access Appliance supports snapshots for recovering from data corruption. If files, or an entire file system, are deleted or become corrupted, you can replace them from the latest uncorrupted snapshot.

See About snapshots.

NetBackup integration

Built-in NetBackup client for backing up your file systems to a NetBackup primary or media server. Once data is backed up, a storage administrator can delete unwanted data from Access Appliance to free up expensive storage for more data.

See the Access Appliance Solutions Guide for NetBackup for more information.

Quotas

Support for setting file system quotas, user quotas, and hard quotas.

See About quotas for usage.

Replication

Synchronous replication of data over IP networks

See About Access Appliance continuous replication.

See the continuous(1) man page for more information.

Support for LDAP and AD

You can configure LDAP and AD authentication services with Access Appliance.

See About configuring LDAP settings.

See About Active Directory (AD).

Partition Directory

With support for partitioned directories, directory entries are redistributed into various hash directories. These hash directories are not visible in the namespace view of the user or operating system. For every new create, delete, or lookup, this feature performs a lookup for the respective hashed directory and performs the operation in that directory. This leaves the parent directory inode and its other hash directories unobstructed for access, which vastly improves file system performance.

By default this feature is not enabled. See the storage_fs(1) manual page to enable this feature.

Veritas Data Deduplication

Veritas Data Deduplication technology is installed on top of Access Appliance and integrates with NetBackup. It catalogs and organizes incoming deduplicated backup data and stores it on Access Appliance storage.

For more information, see the Access Appliance Solutions Guide for NetBackup.

FIPS

FIPS 140-2 standard is enabled by default for the Veritas Operating System (VxOS).

See Enabling FIPS for Access Appliance.

STIG

You can enable OS STIG hardening rules for increased security. These rules are based on the following profile from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

See Enabling OS STIG hardening for Access Appliance.

For more information, see the Appliance security chapter in the Veritas Access Appliance Initial Configuration Guide.

Separation of management and data network

Ability to configure a separate management and data network during cluster configuration.

For more information, see the Veritas Access Appliance Initial Configuration Guide.

Support for multiple data subnets

Access Appliance supports multiple data subnets. This is applicable to all the protocols that the Access Appliance supports.

See Support for multiple data subnets.

Support for immutability in Access Appliance

Access Appliance supports lockdown modes that protects your cluster data from internal and external threats by securing all the external endpoints from unauthorized access.

See About lockdown modes.

Single node configuration

Support for 3360 single node configuration, which provides the same functionality as a two-node configuration.

For more information, see the Veritas Access Appliance Initial Configuration Guide.