Displaying Views and View Policies

Path

The full path from the top level of the storage system on the cluster to the location exposed by the view.

Alias

An alias for the mount path of an NFS export.

Share

For SMB shares, the share name.

Bucket

Name of the S3 bucket used to access the view via S3, if there is one.

Bucket Owner

User name of the S3 bucket owner.

Policy Name

The view policy.

Protocols

The protocol(s) the view is exposed to. Possible values:

S3 Versioning

Applicable if S3 Bucket is enabled.

Indicates if S3 object versioning is enabled on the view.

S3 Locks

Applicable if S3 Bucket is enabled.

Indicates if object locking is enabled on the view.

S3 Retention Mode

Applicable if S3 Bucket and S3 object locking are enabled on the view.

Possible values:

S3 Retention Period

Applicable if S3 Bucket and S3 object locking are enabled on the view.

Default retention period for objects in the bucket. If set, object versions that are placed in the bucket are automatically protected with a retention lock with the specified retention period, unless S3 Retention Mode is set to None. Otherwise, by default, each object version has no automatic protection but can be configured with a retention lock or legal hold. For more information, see S3 Object Locking Overview.

S3 Anonymous Access

Applicable if S3 Bucket or S3 Endpoint is enabled on the view.

Indicates if S3 anonymous access is enabled. This setting allows anonymous S3 access to the bucket. If enabled, anonymous requests are granted provided that the object ACL grants access to the All Users group (in S3 Native security flavor, configured in the view policy) or the permission mode bits on the requested file and directory path grant access permission to "others" (in NFS security flavor, configured in the view policy).

Physical Capacity

The amount of physical capacity used by the view.

Logical Capacity

The amount of data logically written to the view directory prior to data reduction.

Live Monitor

Indicates if live monitoring is enabled (yes) or not (no). Live monitoring can be enabled for up to ten views at one time.

Analytics data for views is polled every 5 minutes by default and every 10 seconds with live monitoring.

Created Time

The date and time when the view was created.

Tenant

The tenant associated with the view. Views are associated by default with a default tenant.

QOS Policy

If the view is associated with a QoS policy, the name of the QoS policy is displayed here.

Name

The name of the policy.

Atime Frequency

atime is a metadata attribute of NFS files that represents the last time the file was updated. atime is updated on read operations if the difference between the current time and the file's atime value is greater than the configured atime frequency.

0 means no atime updates.

Flavor

The security flavor of the policy.

The security flavor determines how file and directory permissions are controlled. For a full description of the security flavors, see Controlling File and Directory Permissions Across Protocols. In brief, the possible values are:

Group Membership Source

Determines the source for retrieving group memberships of NFS users for the purposes of authorizing access to files and directories. Possible values:

For more information about the impact of this setting, see The VAST Cluster Authorization Flow.

NFS Read Write

The hosts that have read/write access to the view via NFS. An asterisk (*) is a wildcard character that includes all hosts.

NFS Read Only

The hosts that have read-only access to the view via NFS. An asterisk (*) is a wildcard character that includes all hosts.

SMB Read Write

The hosts that have read/write access to the view via SMB. An asterisk (*) is a wildcard character that includes all hosts.

SMB Ready Only

The hosts that have read-only access to the view via SMB. An asterisk (*) is a wildcard character that includes all hosts.

S3 Read Write

The hosts that have read/write access to the view via S3. An asterisk (*) is a wildcard character that includes all hosts.

S3 Read Only

The hosts that have read-only access to the view via S3. An asterisk (*) is a wildcard character that includes all hosts.

All Squash

The hosts that have all squash applied to them when accessing the view via NFS. With all squash, all client users are mapped to nobody for all file and folder management operations on the export.

No Squash

The hosts that have no squash applied to them when accessing the view via NFS. With no squash, all operations are supported. Use this option if you trust the root user not to perform operations that will corrupt data.

Root Squash

The hosts that have root squash applied to them when accessing the view via NFS. With root squash, the root user is mapped to nobody for all file and folder management operations on the export.

Trash

The hosts that have access to the trash folder when accessing the view via NFS (NFSv3 only). These hosts have the ability to delete files by moving them into a trash folder, from which they are automatically deleted.

Created Time

The date and time at which the view policy was created.

Tenant

The tenant associated with the policy.