Microsoft Windows Integration on the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

Ryan H. Pratt, September 2009

Introduction

This implementation guide discusses using the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System in a Microsoft Windows environment. (Release 2009.Q2 was used in this scenario.)

The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System series allows for Common Internet File System (CIFS) authentication to a Microsoft Active Directory (AD) database or using local users on the Sun storage system in workgroup mode. There is no facility to store Microsoft Windows users in Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). The AD service provides access to a Microsoft Active Directory database, which stores information about users, groups, shares, and other shared objects.

For more details, see the list of contents below.

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Contents

• 1 Overview
• 2 Scope
• 3 Prerequisites
  • 3.1 Operating System Prerequisites
  • 3.2 Storage System Prerequisites
• 4 Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System Configuration Best Practices
  • 4.1 System Configuration
• 5 Implementation Procedures
  • 5.1 System Configuration
  • 5.2 Services Configuration
  • 5.3 Share Configuration
  • 5.4 Share Management From Windows Server 2003 R2
  • 5.5 Publishing Shares to Active Directory
  • 5.6 Data Migration
  • 5.7 DFS Target
  • 5.8 Snapshot
  • 5.9 Analytics
• 6 Quick Troubleshooting

Recommended References

• Bill Pijewski's blog
• Sun and Microsoft page on sun.com
• Microsoft TechNet

For More Information

Here are additional resources.

Storage resources:

• Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems web site
• Sun Disk Storage web page
• Sun Storage Solutions web page
• Discussions, such as the Storage forums and the Sun Hardware - Servers forums
• Wikis, such as the Storage Administration wiki and the BigAdmin Storage Tech Tips wiki
• Storage Stop blog
• Resources on BigAdmin, such as the Storage resource collection (includes community submissions)

General links:

• Sun download site
• Oracle University web site
• Discussions, such as Sun forums and the BigAdmin Discussions collection
• Sun product documentation at http://docs.sun.com and the Sun Documentation Center
• Sun wikis, such as the BluePrints wiki and the BigAdmin wiki
• Support:
  • Sun resources:
    • Register your gear
    • Sun Services
    • SunSolve Online
  • Community system administration experts