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Summary of changes This section describes the technical changes made in this edition of the book and in previous editions. This edition may also include minor corrections and editorial changes that are not identified. Summary of Changes for SG24-6700-00 for Configuration and Tuning GPFS for Digital Media Environments as created or updated on June 24, 2010 April 2005, First Edition This revision reflects the addition, deletion, or modification of new and changed information described below. Modified information (June 2010) ► Removed step six mmchconfig priority description in “Performance tuning” on page 208. © Copyright IBM Corp. 2005. All rights reserved. xiii
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Page 8 and 9: Abbreviations and acronyms . . . .
Page 10 and 11: Trademarks The following terms are
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Note: Whenever possible, we recomme
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4 Request for accessing a file 1 no
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Data LUN0 In order to assure file a
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Data LUN0 2.2.8 Quorum rules 2 3’
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File system descriptor For maintain
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General Parallel File System Failur
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allocated at daemon start-up. The p
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Figure 2-19 GPFS prefetch 2.2.10 GP
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choices. Option two is using NSD on
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Application Node With GPFS Daemon A
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High SPEED IP INTERCONNECT GbE, 10G
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► Application (compatibility, blo
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- DS4500: At the time this book was
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command node influencing / node rel
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command node influencing / node rel
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performance impacting commands mmrp
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3.1 General considerations for inst
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System component # Type Feature Hos
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2109-F32 (switch1) 2109-F32 (switch
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Figure 3-4 DS4500 - Save the storag
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► Configuration for data LUNs: -
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Note: For performance and availabil
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GPFS_metadata2 1 B Host Group GPFS-
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Figure 3-8 DS4500 Storage Manager G
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3.2.4 Servers zoning configuration
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Figure 3-10 LPAR profile of p5 550
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The second network will be used as
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Once the Linux operating system has
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Figure 3-14 SLES9-yast-setup - Inst
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Figure 3-16 Final installation conf
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For example, if storage (LUNs, mask
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Important: If RDAC/MPP is used, a n
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INITRD_MODULES="ipr lpfcdd" where
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An easy way to verify that the crea
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proc/mpp/DS4500_1/controllerA: tota
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Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revis
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problem with the GPFS cluster if DN
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3.3.5 Time synchronization Check th
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Windows client time synchronization
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► Save the changes to site.mcr fi
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* Descriptions and downloads for th
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The disk descriptor file contains a
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The pagepool parameter changes the
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Example 3-25 Output of mount comman
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4.1 Linux multipathing The term mul
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The Figure 4-3 shows the RDAC drive
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Note: We recommend that you save a
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► Make sure the mppUpper module i
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Attention: We have tested the devic
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kernel 2.6 user space kernel space
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The order of the device maps indica
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devices { device { vendor "IBM " pr
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use of classic remote shell (rsh),
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4.4 NFS Windows network protocol th
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If everything loaded correctly, you
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Forcing the NFS version When mounti
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First prevent the NFS server from s
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4.5 Additional GPFS management task
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Copy the resulting kernel modules f
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Then proceed to removing the GPFS p
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5.1 Performance tuning cycle Tuning
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ehave differently, number of worklo
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Attention: If the data availability
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The two impacting tuning areas for
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Table 5-2 Overview of useful networ
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# mmcrfs /gpfs /dev/gpfs -F -A no
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## The value of the 'prefetchThread
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5.2.5 Tuning the clients In a DM en
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Registry parameter Default Suggeste
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command nfsstat X X X nmon X X X X
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The default Dconf configuration fil
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FILES = ( /etc/gpfs/shmux /root/.ss
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Detaching from and re-attaching to
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you plan to run commands on subsets
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In addition, dstat also has GPFS re
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- Number of open()/create() gpfs ca
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gpfsperf carefully, as gpfsperf is
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Data rate was 204784.35 Kbytes/sec,
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4. Using strace on Linux to analyze
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Filename Description /var/mmfs/gen/
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A.1 Automatic network installation
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Tip 1: An entry in the arp cache is
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Figure A-1 YaST Installation Server
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Instead of using the BladeCenter®
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AIX and Linux [p630n01][/etc/ssh]>
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Example: A-9 Sample ~/.ssh/authoriz
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A.8 SLES9 Installation on an IBM eS
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NVSRAM version: None Transferred on
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GPFS_data4 (271,463 GB) Associated
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DETAILS Logical Drive name: GPFS_da
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2. The metadata describing the esse
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extent such a system can scale the
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Archiving/Annotation Functionality
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the physical disk. In case of cache
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This configuration file will expect
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How to get IBM Redbooks Help from I
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DMC 13 dm-multipath 149 DNS 122 dra
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nfsver 162 NLE 8, 10 no_root_squash
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