Complete VAST Data keyboard shortcuts and commands reference — 12 shortcuts across 3 categories. Quick reference cheat sheet for Windows & Mac.
VAST clusters are administered through VAST Manager, and its CLI mirrors the web UI: every object — views, tenants, snapshots, quotas — has create, modify and show verbs with named flags. The table lists the commands from the administrator guide with their key flags; the notes explain the concepts those commands assume, because the vocabulary (views, VIPs, realms) is what trips people up.
| Shortcut | Action | Description |
|---|---|---|
| vms modify --mgmt-data-vip ip | Set data-network VIP | Expose the VAST Management Service (VMS) on the data network for tenant access. |
| manager create --user-type type | Create admin | Create a cluster or tenant admin user for VMS. |
| role create --tenant-id id | Create role | Create an access role scoped to a specific tenant. |
| realm create --tenant-id id | Create realm | Create a management realm scoped to a tenant. |
| Shortcut | Action | Description |
|---|---|---|
| view create --path path --protocols nfs | Create view | Create a new NFS, SMB, or S3 view (export) on the cluster. |
| view modify --path path | Modify view | Change protocol or policy settings on an existing view. |
| snapshot create --path path --name name | Create snapshot | Create an indestructible point-in-time snapshot of a view. |
| clone create --source-path p --destination-path p2 | Create clone | Create a writable clone of a view from a snapshot. |
| Shortcut | Action | Description |
|---|---|---|
| tenant create --capacity-rules rules | Create tenant | Create a new multi-tenant partition with capacity limits. |
| qospolicy create --is-gold | Create QoS policy | Create a high-priority (gold) quality-of-service policy for a view. |
| quota create --hard-limit size | Create quota | Set a hard capacity limit on a view or tenant. |
| tenant show-client-metrics | Client metrics | Show a tenant's per-client NFS operation statistics. |
The most essential VAST Data shortcuts are: vms modify --mgmt-data-vip ip (Set data-network VIP), manager create --user-type type (Create admin), role create --tenant-id id (Create role).
These are command-line commands — type them in your terminal or console. Combine them with shell history search (Ctrl + R) and aliases to work even faster.
The VAST Data shortcut for set data-network vip is vms modify --mgmt-data-vip ip. Expose the VAST Management Service (VMS) on the data network for tenant access.
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A view is the exported path with its protocols, and view create --path path --protocols nfs makes one — add smb or s3 to the protocol list for multi-protocol access to the same data — while view modify --path path changes protocols, policies or the associated view policy later. Clients connect through virtual IPs on the data network, and vms modify --mgmt-data-vip ip sets the management data VIP that the UI and CLI advertise.
tenant create --capacity-rules rules creates an isolated tenant with its own capacity policy, and realm create --tenant-id id and role create --tenant-id id scope administrative access to it; manager create --user-type type adds an administrator account. quota create --hard-limit size caps a path, and qospolicy create --is-gold creates a quality-of-service policy that guarantees bandwidth to a class of clients. tenant show-client-metrics reports per-client throughput and latency for a tenant, which is the first place to look when one team says the storage is slow.
snapshot create --path path --name name takes a snapshot of a path — instantaneous and space-efficient, and the basis of snapshot policies and replication — and clone create --source-path p --destination-path p2 creates a writable copy from one, which is how a test dataset is derived from production without copying bytes.
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