Oracle^® MiniCluster S7-2 Administration Guide

Enable or Disable NFS (BUI)

As described in MiniCluster Storage Overview, MiniCluster includes storage space on the storage array that can be made available to VMs using NFS. You can also provide VMs with NFS shared storage from other storage devices in your environment. To distinguish between the two types of NFS storage capabilities, this guide uses these terms:

• Internal NFS – Refers to storage on the MiniCluster storage array that can be enabled or disabled.

• External NFS – Refers to other NFS storage that is provided by servers in your environment.

Use this procedure to enable or disable access to internal and external NFS storage DB VM and App VM groups. You can also use this procedure to identify if NFS is enabled or disabled.

The internal NFS storage provides storage space for any storage purpose, and is available to all VMs within a group if it is enabled.

This tables describes the configuration results of enabling or disabling NFS in the Group Profiles page.

Shared Storage Configuration Internal NFS External NFS Enabled NFS services are enabled for all VMs in the group. All the VMs in the group have access to the /sharedstore directory and its contents. If external NFS is configured, all VMs in the group have access to the external NFS through the mount point specified in the group profile. Disabled All NFS services are disabled for all VMs in the group. The /sharedstore directory and its contents is not available to any VMs in the group. Network file systems are not available to any VMs in the group. If previously configured, the NFS mount point is not deleted from VMs, but no file system is mounted to it.

The change takes effect immediately and applies to all the VMs in the group. For more information about shared storage on the storage array, see MiniCluster Storage Overview.

1. Access the MCMU BUI as a primary admin, such as mcinstall.

   See Log in to the MCMU BUI.

2. Navigate to the group profiles page.

   • For a DB VM group, select the Database → Virtual Machine Group Profiles page

   • For an App VM group, select the Application → Virtual Machine Group Profiles page

   
   
3. Click either Disable or Enable NFS (formerly Shared Storage).
4. When prompted, click Yes (or Quit).

   The change takes effect immediately.

5. To access the shared file system, log into the VM and perform Oracle Solaris commands.

   To access the file system:

   % cd /sharedstore

   List contents of the directory:

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   Note -  The /sharedstore directory is empty until you put software in the directory.

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   % ls /sharedstore
   Downloads   Music   Pictures   Presentations   Templates  Texts  Videos

Related Information

Oracle Solaris 11.4

• Securing Files and Verifying File Integrity in Oracle Solaris 11.4 (https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E61022/index.html)

• Managing File Systems in Oracle Solaris 11.4 (https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E61016/index.html)

• Oracle Solaris 11.4 Information Library (https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/index.html)

Oracle Solaris 11.3

• Securing Files and Verifying File Integrity in Oracle Solaris 11.3 (https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54827/index.html)

• Managing File Systems in Oracle Solaris 11.3 (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54785/index.html)

• Oracle Solaris 11.3 Information Library (https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/)