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Qumulo On-Premises Administrator Guide
- Documentation Home
- Guide Table of Contents
- Contacting the Qumulo Care Team
Getting Started
- Installing the Qumulo Core Product Package
- Creating a Cluster
- Configuring Interface Tagging for Host-Managed Networking
- Supported Configurations and Known Limits
System Upgrades
- Feature Log
- Upgrade Modes
- Performing Upgrades
- Replication Version Requirements and Upgrade Recommendations
Authentication
- Installing a Signed SSL Certificate
- Installing a Custom Root CA Certificate
- Installing VPN Keys
- Configuring Active Directory
- Configuring LDAP
- Configuring SAML Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Configuring Search Trusted Domains
- Creating and Using Bearer Tokens
Connecting to External Services
- Creating and Using Access Tokens
- Connecting a Kubernetes Cluster
Authorization
- Managing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Managing Cross-Protocol (XPP) Permissions
- Using SMB Host Restrictions
- Using Active Directory for POSIX Attributes
- Managing File Locks
Encryption at Rest
- Managing Encryption at Rest
Encryption in Transit
- Managing SMB3 Encryption in Transit
- How NFSv4.1 Works with Kerberos
- Host Access Rules for NFS Exports
Cryptographic Key Management
- Generating and Storing ECDSA Keys
- Managing Security Keys
Storage Management
- Creating and Managing Directory Quotas
Network Configuration
- Configuring Interface Tagging for Host-Managed Networking
- Required Networking Ports
- Configuring IPv6
- Connecting to Multiple Virtual Networks
- Configuring Round-Robin DNS on Windows Server
- Configuring Qumulo Authoritative DNS (QDNS)
Network Multitenancy
- Partitioning a Cluster into Tenants
- Configuring Management Protocols
- Configuring File System Protocols
Cloud Data Fabric
- How Cloud Data Fabric Works
- Known Limits for Cloud Data Fabric
- Configuring a Portal Relationship
- Configuring Cache Management
Web UI
- Setting the Web UI Login Banner
- Setting the Web UI Inactivity Timeout
qq CLI
- Getting Started with the qq CLI
- Enabling Autocomplete for the qq CLI
Metadata
- Managing User-Defined Metadata
Snapshots
- How Snapshots Work
- Managing Snapshots
- Locking and Unlocking Snapshots
- Recovering Files by Using Snapshots
Node Addition and Replacement
- How Drive and Node Failure Protection Works
- Adding Nodes to an Existing Cluster
- Increasing the Node Fault Tolerance Level during Node-Add Operations
- Adding Nodes with Adaptive Data Protection
- Replacing Nodes by Performing a Transparent Platform Refresh
- Improving Performance by Migrating a Cluster to a Different License Class
- Understanding Offline Nodes
Data Replication
- Creating and Managing a Continuous Replication Relationship
- Shift-To Amazon S3
- Shift-From Amazon S3
File System Changes
- How File System Change Notifications Work
- Watching for Changes with SMB2 CHANGE_NOTIFY
- Watching for Changes with REST
NFS
- Creating and Managing an NFS Export
- Enabling and Using NFSv4.1
- Managing File Access Permissions with ACLs
- Host Access Rules for NFS Exports
NFSv4.1 with Kerberos
- How NFSv4.1 Works with Kerberos
- Prerequisites for Joining to Active Directory
- Configuring Active Directory
- Performing Additional Cluster Configuration
- Using Kerberos Permissions
- Configuring a Linux Client
- Configuring Cross-Domain Active Directory Trusts
- Troubleshooting NFSv4.1 with Kerberos
SMB
- Creating and Managing an SMB Share
- Resolving Access Issues with an SMB Share
- Managing File Shares by Using the Shared Folders MMC Snap-In
S3 API
- Configuring and Using the S3 API
- Creating and Managing S3 Access Keys
- Creating and Managing S3 Buckets
- Managing Access to S3 Buckets
- Managing Access Policies for S3 Buckets
- Managing Multipart S3 Uploads
- Managing S3 Bucket Versioning
- Managing Object Lock for S3 Buckets
- Supported Functionality and Limits
Monitoring and Metrics
- Enabling Nexus Remote Support
- Enabling Cloud-Based Monitoring and VPN Remote Support
- Connecting to Cloud-Based Monitoring and S3 with a Custom Proxy
- Restoring the Default Values for Cloud-Based and Nexus Monitoring
- How Audit Logging Works
- OpenMetrics API Specification

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Creating a Qumulo Cluster

This section explains how to configure nodes to create a Qumulo cluster.

To Create and Configure a Qumulo Cluster

Review the End User Agreement, click I agree to the End User Agreement, and then click Submit.
In the 1. Set up cluster section, take the following steps:
1. Enter a Cluster name.
2. Select the nodes to add to your cluster.
  
  The total cluster capacity appears at the bottom of the page.
3. To reorder a node, drag its table row.
  Important
  - It isn't possible to reorder nodes after creating a cluster.
  - We recommend ordering nodes to match their physical arrangement in the server rack. This helps map nodes that appear in the Node Name column to rack positions.
  - To identify a node, take one of the following actions:
    - Power on nodes one at a time and watch the nodes that populate the table.
    - Compare nodes' MAC addresses to the MAC addresses listed in the table.
  - If any nodes are missing from the table, check these nodes' networking configuration.
In the 2. Confirm cluster protection level section, confirm your cluster protection level (the number of drive failures Qumulo Core protects the cluster against).

If the Customize Protection Level option appears (depending on your cluster size and node types), you can select two-drive or three-drive protection.
Important
Choose the cluster protection level carefully:
- After you create the cluster, you can change it only by using Adaptive Data Protection when you add or replace nodes. The data protection reconfiguration process can take days or weeks.
- Choosing to protect more drives decreases cluster capacity.
- To set a node fault tolerance level higher than the default, create your cluster by using the qq cluster_create command with the --max-node-failures flag.
In the 3. Create a password for your admin account section, enter a password and then click Create Cluster.

When the cluster creation process is complete, you can access the Qumulo Core Web UI by entering the IP address of any node in the cluster into a browser.