Edge Extend Server for Nasuni Access Anywhere

This guide covers the installation and network configuration of the Edge Extend Server running on the Nasuni Access Anywhere appliance.

The Edge Extend server cannot be clustered. For multi-node deployments, you should run the server as a separate virtual machine, or run the Edge Extend server on only one node.

Once the server is running see Edge Extend Server to continue setup.

For general documentation see Edge Extend.

The server is deployed to your instance of Nasuni Access Anywhere. Edge Extend agents connect to the Edge Extend server through the public endpoint of the Nasuni Access Anywhere Server. Agents connect using a UDP-base protocol to port 8445.

An administrative web application is available over port 8081.

This is an example with Nasuni Access Anywhere deployed to the AWS Cloud:

This guide walks through deploying the Edge Extend Server to your existing Nasuni Access Anywhere server as a container. After the container is deployed you'll set up one or more agents to complete set up of Edge Extend.

This guide is for IT infrastructure architects and DevOps professionals.

To follow this guide a user should have some familiarity with Nasuni Access Anywhere server and with a Linux shell.

Following this guide, an Edge Extend server can be deployed in under 30 minutes.

You need to prepare/collect the following information before you can complete this configuration guide:

• Access to NAA repository for package
  • Your Nasuni Access Anywhere server needs public internet access for downloading packages
• Access to your Access Anywhere instance
  • SSH access, credentials for smeconfiguser and root.
  • Ability to open ingress port 8445 for public UDP access
  • Ability to access port 8081 for the web interface
  • Org admin access for adding an SMB provider.

In addition to ports required for your Access Anywhere deployment the following ingress ports should be open.

* You can restrict access to the IP addresses you are logging in from.

The Nasuni Access Anywhere server may connect to file servers through the Edge Extend container via the following ports. These do not need to be accessible outside the host.

Log into your appliance through SSH as smeconfiguser. If you are logging into a cloud instance you may have been set up to use an SSH private key.

ssh smeconfiguser@<ipaddress>

Check that you can become the root user.

su -

If you are using a cloud instance you might use instead:

sudo bash

Run this command as root to install the package:

yum install sme-containers-smbstreamcontroller

This will download and install the package.

To start up the service

cd /var/www/smestorage/containers/smbstreamController
/usr/local/bin/docker-compose up -d

Verify the service started correctly.

/usr/local/bin/docker-compose logs -f

Hit Control-C to abort.

You can verify that the server started and that you have access, by checking the web interface at:

https://hostname:8081

Once container configuration is complete return to Edge Extend Server to continue setup.