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xiv Configuration and Tuning GPFS for Digital Media Environments
1 Chapter 1. Introduction to digital media This chapter provides an introduction to the digital media concepts and processing environments. The topics covered are: ► An overview of digital media (definition, terminology, concepts) ► The differences between streaming and IT traffic ► Examples of various digital media environments with the corresponding data access profiles ► Overview of digital media complementary offerings © Copyright IBM Corp. 2005. All rights reserved. 1
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Page 8 and 9: Abbreviations and acronyms . . . .
Page 10 and 11: Trademarks The following terms are
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Page 18 and 19: 1.1 What is digital media? Digital
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File system descriptor For maintain
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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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High SPEED IP INTERCONNECT GbE, 10G
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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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GPFS_metadata2 1 B Host Group GPFS-
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Figure 3-10 LPAR profile of p5 550
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Figure 3-16 Final installation conf
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For example, if storage (LUNs, mask
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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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The pagepool parameter changes the
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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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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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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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