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HPSS
Installation Guide
High Performance Storage System
Release 4.5
September 2002 (Revision 2)
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HPSS Installation Guide Copyright (C) 1992-2002 International Business Machines Corporation, The Regents of the University of California, Sandia Corporation, and Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation. All rights reserved. Portions of this work were produced by the University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Labo- ratory (LLNL) under Contract No. W-7405-ENG-48 with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), by the Uni- versity of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
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Table of Contents Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 List of Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 List of Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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HPSS Operational Planning ..................................................................................42 HPSS Deployment Planning .................................................................................43 2.2 Requirements and Intended Usages for HPSS .......................................................43 Storage System Capacity.......................................................................................43 Required Throughputs...........................................
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Metadata Monitor ..................................................................................................77 NFS Daemons........................................................................................................77 Startup Daemon.....................................................................................................78 Storage System Management ................................................................................79 HDM Considerations...................
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Miscellaneous Rules for Backing Up HPSS Metadata .......................................144 Chapter 3 System Preparation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 3.1 General .....................................................................................................................145 3.2 Setup Filesystems.....................................................................................................146 DCE .......................................
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Chapter 4 HPSS Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 4.1 Overview...................................................................................................................205 Distribution Media ..............................................................................................205 Installation Packages ...........................................................................................205 Installation Roadmap........
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HPSS Configuration Limits.................................................................................250 Using SSM for HPSS Configuration...................................................................251 Server Reconfiguration and Reinitialization .......................................................252 6.2 SSM Configuration and Startup ............................................................................252 SSM Server Configuration and Startup..................................
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Recommended Settings for Tape Devices...........................................................411 Chapter 7 HPSS User Interface Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413 7.1 Client API Configuration .......................................................................................413 7.2 Non-DCE Client API Configuration......................................................................415 Configuration Files.........................................................
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Performance.........................................................................................................469 The Global Fileset File ........................................................................................469 Appendix A Glossary of Terms and Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471 Appendix B References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485 Appendix C Developer Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . .
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Appendix G High Availability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535 G.1 Overview...................................................................................................................535 Architecture .........................................................................................................536 G.2 Planning....................................................................................................................537 Befor
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List of Figures Figure 1-1 Migrate and Stage Operations ............................................................................. 24 Figure 1-2 Relationship of HPSS Data Structures ................................................................ 25 Figure 1-3 The HPSS System ............................................................................................... 26 Figure 2-1 The Relationship of Various Server Data Structures .......................................... 63 Figure 2-2 Re
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Figure 6-36 AML PVR Server Configuration Window ........................................................ 377 Figure 6-37 STK PVR Server Configuration Window ......................................................... 378 Figure 6-38 STK RAIT PVR Server Configuration Window ............................................... 379 Figure 6-39 Operator PVR Server Configuration Window .................................................. 380 Figure 6-40 Disk Storage Server Configuration Window ...............
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List of Tables Table 1-1 HPSS Client Interface Platforms ......................................................................... 37 Table 2-1 Cartridge/Drive Affinity Table ............................................................................ 56 Table 2-2 Gatekeeping Call Parameters .............................................................................. 90 Table 2-3 Suggested Block Sizes for Disk .......................................................................... 98 Table
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Table 6-25 Solaris System Parameters ................................................................................ 352 Table 6-26 Linux System Parameters .................................................................................. 353 Table 6-27 Name Server Configuration Variables .............................................................. 356 Table 6-28 NFS Daemon Configuration Variables ............................................................. 361 Table 6-29 Non-DCE Client Gate
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Preface Conventions Used in This Book Example commands that should be typed at a command line will be proceeded by a percent sign (‘%’) and be presented in a boldface courier font: % sample command Names of files, variables, and variable values will appear in a boldface courier font: Sample file, variable, or variable value Any text preceded by a pound sign (‘#’) should be considered shell script comment lines: # This is a comment HPSS Installation Guide September 2002 17 Release 4.5, Revision 2
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Chapter 1 HPSS Basics 1.1 Introduction The High Performance Storage System (HPSS) is software that provides hierarchical storage management and services for very large storage environments. HPSS may be of interest in situations having present and future scalability requirements that are very demanding in terms of total storage capacity, file sizes, data rates, number of objects stored, and numbers of users. HPSS is part of an open, distributed environment based on OSF Distributed Computing Enviro
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Chapter 1 HPSS Basics provide scalability and parallelism. The basis for this architecture is the IEEE Mass Storage System Reference Model, Version 5. 1.2.2 High Data Transfer Rate HPSS achieves high data transfer rates by eliminating overhead normally associated with data transfer operations. In general, HPSS servers establish transfer sessions but are not involved in actual transfer of data. 1.2.3 Parallel Operation Built In The HPSS Application Program Interface (API) supports parallel o
