How-to guides

Planning to receive an Appliance

• Before you order an Appliance

  Learn the preparation tasks to complete before ordering an Appliance

• Consolidating your data

  Streamline your data capture experience by consolidating the files you want to capture.

• Reviewing files to transfer

  Ensure that your files meet Transfer Appliance criteria.

• Preparing the physical network

  Learn about security, performance, and network issues to consider when preparing for data transfer, including firewall ports.

• Preparing to receive an Appliance

  Learn about Transfer Appliance models, appliance size specifications, and facilities requirements.

• Choosing a data capture method

  Determine which data capture method best suits your needs, and learn data capture best practices.

Preparing and configuring Transfer Appliance

• Investigate network settings

  Prerequisites for unpacking and configuring Transfer Appliance.

• Unpacking Transfer Appliance

  Unpack Transfer Appliance.

• Connecting Transfer Appliance

  Connect Transfer Appliance to power and network.

• Configuring Transfer Appliance

  Essential configuration required to prepare for a data transfer.

• Setting an IP address

  Configure an IP address, so that Transfer Appliance is reachable on your network.

• Configuring email alerts

  Configure optional email alerts for job status and storage usage.

• Configuring link aggregation

  Configure link aggregation to increase transfer throughput.

Using NFS to capture data

• Mounting an NFS file system

  Configure the Transfer Appliance mount NFS file systems.

• Exporting an NFS share

  Configure the Transfer Appliance to export directories via NFS.

• Performing an HDFS capture

  Use NFS to transfer data from HDFS to Storage Transfer Service.

• Performing an NFS Capture

  Transfer data by connecting directly to an NFS share from Transfer Appliance.

Capturing workstation data

• Performing a Microsoft Windows workstation capture

  Transfer data using a capture utility on a Microsoft Windows workstation.

• Performing a Linux workstation capture

  Transfer data using a capture utility on a Linux workstation.

• Performing serial captures using multiple appliances

  Capture data using multiple appliances.

• Retrying unsuccessful data capture jobs

  Retry jobs to capture skipped files or directories.

• Canceling data capture jobs

  Cancel a running data capture job.

• Monitoring data capture jobs

  Get information about the status of the data capture jobs.

• Monitoring Transfer Appliance storage usage

  Check the amount of storage space used and available on Transfer Appliance.

• Monitoring disk status

  Determine the health of Transfer Appliance disks during data capture.

Preparing and shipping an appliance

• Preparing and shipping an Appliance

  Prepare a Cloud Storage bucket for receipt of the data and return Transfer Appliance to Google for data ingestion.

Rehydrating data

• Launching and configuring a rehydrator instance

  Use Google Cloud Launcher to launch an instance of the Transfer Appliance Rehydrator, then set it up to access your Cloud Storage buckets.

• Rehydrating data

  Create jobs to rehydrate data from the Cloud Storage staging location to the destination bucket.

• Monitoring rehydration jobs

  Get information about the status of the rehydration jobs.

Post-hydration cleaning

• Cleaning Up

  Delete rehydration resources and give notice to wipe Transfer Appliance.

Changing Appliance Configurations

• Testing network connectivity

  Test if Transfer Appliance can connect to your network.

• Displaying network configuration

  Display Transfer Appliance information like the network type, network speed, Transfer Appliance IP address, and name servers in use.

• Displaying Appliance status

  Display Transfer Appliance information like the appliance name, appliance GUID, software version, and network configuration.

• Resetting the capture user password

  Reset the password for accessing Transfer Appliance.

Resetting an Appliance

• Resetting an Appliance

  Reset Transfer Appliance to factory defaults if you have captured the wrong data or forgotten the encryption credentials.