In addition to providing metadata to clients and managing locks, metadata servers perform a wide variety of other tasks. They process requests issued by administrators to create and manage filesets, storage pools, volumes, and policy sets, and they enforce the policies defined by administrators to place files in appropriate storage pools and ensure that capacity quotas established for filesets and storage pools are not exceeded.
You can perform the following metadata server tasks:
Adding a metadata server to the cluster
This topic describes how to add a metadata server to the cluster.Changing the hostname
This topic describes how to change the hostname of a metadata server in the /etc/HOSTNAME and /etc/hosts configuration files after the initial setup and configuration of the SAN File System.Changing an IP address in a multi-engine cluster
This topic describes how to change the IP address of a metadata server in a typical environment with multiple engines in the cluster.Changing an IP address in a single-engine cluster
This topic describes how to change the IP address of a metadata server in an environment with a single engine in the cluster.Changing the system time
This topic describes how to avoid a metadata server crash when changing the system time.Checking metadata
This topic describes how to check and repair metadata.Removing a metadata server from the cluster
This topic describes how to remove a metadata server from the cluster.Removing metadata server software
This topic describes how to remove the SAN File System software from the metadata server.Starting the metadata server restart service
This topic describes how to enable the metadata server restart service.Stopping a metadata check
This topic describes how to stop the metadata-check process.Stopping the metadata server restart service
This topic describes how to disable the metadata server restart service.Tuning the metadata server restart service
This topic describes how to set metadata server restart service tuning options such as retry limits, probe intervals, and liveness test timeouts.Viewing metadata server details
This topic describes how to view metadata server details such as state, server role, boot times, and software version. These details also include networking information such as port, IP address and protocol information.Viewing metadata server restart service statistics
This topic describes how to view metadata server restart service statistics, which includes test details and information about metadata server probes.Viewing metadata server restart service tuning details
This topic describes how to view metadata server restart service tuning details such as retry limits, probe intervals, and liveness test timeouts.
Parent topic: Managing