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PowerScale OneFS Web Administration Guide

SmartConnect zones and aliases

Clients can connect to the cluster through a specific IP address or though a domain that represents an IP address pool.

SmartConnect zone aliases enable you to view all the DNS names that a cluster answers for. You create Service Principal Name (SPN) records in Active Directory or in MIT Kerberos for the SmartConnect zone names, as a component of the machine account of the cluster. To create the SPN records, use the CLI isi auth command after you add the zone alias, similar to the following:

isi auth ads spn check --domain=<domain.com> --repair

You can configure a SmartConnect DNS zone name for each IP address pool. The zone name must be a fully qualified domain name. Add a new name server (NS) record that references the SmartConnect service IP address in the existing authoritative DNS zone that contains the cluster. Provide a zone delegation to the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the SmartConnect zone in your DNS infrastructure.

If you have a SmartConnect Advanced license, you can also specify a list of alternate SmartConnect DNS zone names for the IP address pool.

When a client connects to the cluster through a SmartConnect DNS zone:
  • SmartConnect handles the incoming DNS requests on behalf of the IP address pool.
  • The service subnet distributes incoming DNS requests according to the connection balancing policy of the pool.
NOTE Using SmartConnect zone aliases is recommended for making clusters accessible using multiple domain names. Use of CNAMES is not recommended.

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