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AWS
General Requirements For general requirments, see Planning and General Requirements . Specific Requirements The portal installation requires either an M5.xlarge or M5.2xlarge instance type and at least 100GB EBS storage volume. ...
Azure
General Requirements For general requirments, see Planning and General Requirements . Specific Requirements The portal image used to create the CTERA Portal instance is created from an operating system vhd file, CentOS-CTERA-Portal-Image-x-y...
ESXi
General Requirements For general requirments, see Planning and General Requirements . Specific Requirements The portal installation requires VMware ESXi 6.7U1 or later. CTERA recommends using VMware ESXi 7.0 and later as VMware has announced ...
GCP (Google Cloud)
For general requirments, see Planning and General Requirements .
Hyper-V
General Requirements For general requirments, see Planning and General Requirements . Specific Requirements The portal installation requires Hyper-V for Windows Server 2012 R2 or higher.
IBM Cloud
General Requirements For general requirments, see Planning and General Requirements . Specific Requirements A VPC is required for CTERA Secured Enterprise File Services Platform. In a production environment, with a multi-node deployment, th...
Nutanix AHV
For general requirments, see Planning and General Requirements .
OpenStack/KVM
General Requirements For general requirments, see Planning and General Requirements . Specific Requirements Make sure that memory overcommitting is disabled.
Configuring the Primary Server
Configuring the primary server is a one-time operation, the first time you access the portal. Note All CTERA Portal servers must not run other services. By default, CTERA portal servers are application servers. If yo...
Restarting a Server from the User Interface
CTERA Portal servers can be restarted from the CTERA Portal user interface. To restart a server: In the global administration view, select Main > Servers in the navigation pane. The SERVERS page is displayed, listing all the servers for...
Creating an Archive Pool
Using SSH, log in as root to your CTERA Portal primary database server. In the command line, enter the following command to create the database archive pool: portal-storage-util.sh create_db_archive_pool device Where device is the name of...
Installing and Configuring Additional CTERA Portal Servers
Installing an Additional Server All servers except the primary server are additional servers. You install additional servers using the same procedure you used to install the primary server, and then continue with Configuring an Additional Serve...
Configuring the CTERA Portal Database for Backup
CTERA Portal uses PostgreSQL to store metadata. This database must be backed up to ensure continued use of CTERA Portal in order to ensure data and metadata persistence and consistency on the CTERA platform, and to keep Recovery Time Objective (RT...
Backing Up the CTERA Portal Servers and Storage
To back up the on-premise CTERA Portal servers and storage you need to use third-party recovery tools, such as Veeam. To back up the cloud-based CTERA Portal servers and storage the cloud provider, AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM, and GCP, must handle the ba...