Managing remote shares

You can mount remote shares and then move large data files, such as Lenovo XClarity Administrator backups and firmware updates, from the local repository to the remote share to manage disk space that is available to management server.

Before you begin

When running XClarity Administrator as a container, remote shares are mounted to the container using the yml file during installation (see Installing Lenovo XClarity Administrator in a Docker, CentOS, Citrix, Red Hat KVM, Rocky, Ubuntu, VMware ESXi, or Windows Hyper-V environment).

When running XClarity Administrator as a virtual appliance, you must have lxc-supervisor authority to mount or unmount a remote share.

Ensure that you have a high speed and stable network between the file server and XClarity Administrator.

Restriction: Remote shares are not supported when running XClarity Administrator as a container.

About this task

You must use separate remote shares to store XClarity Administrator backups and firmware updates.

You cannot use the XClarity Administrator backup files directly from the remote share. To use the backup files, you must move them back to the local repository.

Currently, only SSHFS is supported.

Procedure

To add a remote share when running XClarity Administrator as a virtual appliance, complete the following steps.

  1. From the XClarity Administrator menu bar, click Administration > Remote Share. The Remote Share page is displayed.
  2. Click the Create (Create icon) icon to create a remote share. The Create Remote Share dialog is displayed.
  3. Specify the IP address of the file server that hosts the remote share.
  4. Specify the stored credential to use to access the remote share.
    Tip: To create a stored credential, see Managing stored credentials.
  5. Specify the mount point (local directory) on the management server to use for mounting the remote share.
    Important: The path must start with /mnt.
  6. Specify the shared directory (remote server path) to mount as the remote share on the management server.
  7. Click Create.

After you finish