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Prepare DD series appliances for DD BoostFS as follows:
$ filesys status
The file system is enabled and running.
$ ddboost status
DD Boost status: enabled
If the DD Boost status is reported as disabled, enable it by entering:
$ ddboost enable
DD Boost enabled
ddboost option show
You should see the following output:
Option Value
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Distributed-segment-processing enabled
virtual-synthetics enabled
fc disabled
global-authentication-mode none
global-encryption-mode medium
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If distributed segment processing is shown as disabled, enable it by entering:
ddboost option set distributed-segment-processing enabled
sysadmin@datadomain# user add cvbackup role admin
Enter new password:
Re-enter new password:
Passwords matched.
User "cvbackup" added.
sysadmin@datadomain# ddboost user assign cvbackup
User "cvbackup" assigned to DD Boost.
sysadmin@datadomain# ddboost storage-unit create cv-backup user cvbackup
Created storage-unit "cv-backup" for "cvbackup".