NFS server installation

The Hyperscale Compliance Orchestrator requires a Staging Area to read from the source file(s) and write to the target file(s). The Staging Area must be an NFS-shared filesystem accessible to the Hyperscale Compliance Orchestrator and the Continuous Compliance Engines. The following are the supported ways by which the filesystem can be shared over NFS(NFSv3/NFSv4):

Delphix Continuous Data Engine empty VDB

To create a Delphix Virtualization Engine empty VDB, follow the below procedure.

Continuous Data Engine installation

Delphix Virtualization Engine is a data management platform that provides the ability to securely copy and share datasets. Using virtualization, you will ingest your data sources and create virtual data copies, which are full read-write capable database instances that use a small fraction of the resources a normal database copy would require.

For information about installing the Virtualization Engine, see Virtualization Engine Installation documentation.

Discover and configure Hyperscale Compliance Orchestrator environment

1. After installing and configuring the Virtualization Engine, make sure that the Network and Connectivity Requirements for using Empty VDB on Unix environments are met.

2. Discover the Hyperscale Compliance Orchestrator Unix host on the Virtulization’s Engine Management application. For more information, see Adding a Unix Environment.

3. Navigate to Manage > Environments to view the discovered Hyperscale Compliance Orchestrator Unix host.

4. After the discovery is completed, configure the same Unix host on the Environments screen such that the IP addresses of the Hyperscale Compliance Orchestrator Unix host along with the Continuous Compliance Engines part of the Continuous Compliance Engine cluster are populated in the NFS Addresses field. This is done to ensure that the empty VDB is shared with both Hyperscale Compliance Orchestrator and the Continuous Compliance Engines part of the Continuous Compliance Engine cluster.

   

Provision an empty VDB

1. Follow the steps listed under Create an Empty VDB for Unstructured Files in the Delphix Engine to provision an empty VDB on the discovered Hyperscale Compliance Orchestrator Unix host.

2. Note the mount path provided while provisioning the empty VDB as that is the path which will be used to fill the empty VDB with the source file(s) that the Hyperscale Compliance Orchestrator needs to mask and where the target masked file(s) will be placed.

Hyperscale Compliance OS user should have read/write permissions on the mount point path where the empty VDB will be provisioned.Hyperscale Compliance OS user should have read/write permissions on the mount point path where the empty VDB will be provisioned.

The location of the mounted empty VDB on the Hyperscale Compliance Orchestrator Unix host can be found with a simple ‘grep’ of the mount path, provided while provisioning the empty VDB, using the ‘mount’ utility:

hyperscale-engine:~$ df -h | grep /mnt/provision/hyperscale_data

10.119.138.34:/domain0/group-2/appdata_container-3/appdata_timeflow-4/datafile 20T 3.5T

16T 18% /mnt/provision/hyperscale_data

3. Copy the source file(s) to the location where the empty VDB has been mounted.

NFS file server

1. An NFS shared filesystem can also be provided by a typical NFS server. Export a filesystem from the NFS file server such that the Hyperscale Compliance Orchestrator and Continuous Compliance Engines part of the Continuous Compliance Engine Cluster have read and write permission on it. As such, the export entry should be of the following form based on the UID/GID corresponding to the owner of the shared path:

<mount_path> <ip1,ip2,ip3,ipn>(rw,all_squash,anonuid=<uid>,anongid=<gid>)

2. Export the NFS share using the below command:

sudo exportfs -rav

3. Once the NFS share is exported from the NFS server, proceed to mount the same share on the Hyperscale Compliance Orchestrator host:

sudo mount -t nfs -o vers=4 <nfs-server-host-ip>:<mount_path>
<user.home>/hyperscale/mount-dir

Storage requirements for the NFS file server

Considering a single Hyperscale Compliance job execution, the Hyperscale Compliance Orchestrator will store unloaded files (unloaded from source ) and masked files. As such, the required storage will amount to 2X the size of the source data.