Globus Connect Server delivers advanced file transfer and sharing capabilities on your network.

This article provides installation steps for Globus Connect Server v4, along with how to integrate QuantaStor to be used as an endpoint for Globus Connect Server v4. In our testing, we used Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. The steps below assume that you have a system already installed on your operating system of choice for Globus Connect Server v4, and that a QuantaStor storage appliance is currently installed and configured with a storage pool.

An endpoint for Globus Connect Server v4 can either be configured for a single network share from QuantaStor, or for an entire storage pool where each network share below is available. For the purpose of this article, we have used a single network share to be used as an endpoint.

Installation / Setup

Step 1: Configure a network share in QuantaStor to be used as an endpoint for Globus Connect Server.

Step 2: Create a user on the Globus Connect Server to be used for the endpoint. You will be prompted for this later when activating the endpoint.

Step 3: Mount the network share from the QuantaStor storage appliance on the Globus Connect Server.

root@qsglobus01:~# mkdir /mnt/globus
root@qsglobus01:~# mount -t nfs 10.0.27.48:/export/globus /mnt/globus
root@qsglobus01:~# df -h
Filesystem                 Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                       1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs                      395M  792K  394M   1% /run
/dev/sda1                   20G  3.0G   16G  16% /
tmpfs                      2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                      5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                      2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs                      395M     0  395M   0% /run/user/1000
10.0.27.48:/export/globus   39G     0   39G   0% /mnt/globus

Step 4: Ensure that the user created in step 2 has read and write access to the /mnt/globus/ directory.

Step 5: Install Globus Connect Server v4 as per their documentation. The documentation makes reference to configuring the endpoint configuration. Use the mounted directory as the ‘DefaultDirectory’ option. For example:

DefaultDirectory = /mnt/globus/

Note – The ‘globus-connect-server-setup’ part of the documentation may fail. We performed the following to continue:

apt-get install -y python3-pip
pip3 install jwt

Step 6: Run globus-connect-server-setup again. This time it should prompt for a ‘Globus Id’ and ‘Globus Password’. These are your credentials you use to sign in to your Globus account. Enter the credentials as prompted and press enter to confirm. Once confirmed, an endpoint will be created, and it should appear in your Globus web account.

Step 7: On your Globus account, activate the endpoint and enter the credentials you created in Step 2.

Note – If you see an error like the below when activating the endpoint:

Activation failed: Error contacting myproxy server, Server authorization failed. Server identity does not match expected identity. If the server identity is acceptable, set MYPROXY_SERVER_DN="/C=US/O=Globus Consortium/OU=Globus 
Connect Service/CN=a4acf4e4-80c7-11ea-97a5-0e56c063f437" and try again.

Ensure that the host name, domain name and /etc/hosts is configured correctly on the Globus Connect Server.

Click here to view the OSNEXUS wiki. If you have any issues with integrating Globus with QuantaStor, contact support@osnexus.com.

Categories: Storage Appliance Hardware

Tags: globus, sds, storage