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[s-x86] Re: Anyone used DiskSuite 4.2
Thanks Simon, if as cost effective as x86 Solaris, then it's definitely quite
an option, will read up on it.
Have a great week-end everyone and thanks for all the help & suggestions.
-Peter Mwaniki
Simon Ferrett wrote:
|>
|> Basically it is a piece of hardware that takes shelves of disks which it
|> runs RAID on, and it presents itself on the network as an NFS server.
|>
|> It uses a propratery filesystem internal to the machine which is very fast
|> and can easily be expanded in size without the need to delete anything. It
|> also has some handy backup features as well.
|>
|> see: http://www.netapp.com for some more info. (select 'Netapp Filers' for
|> information about the Filer product, which is what I'm referring to)
|>
|> Cheers,
|>
|>
|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Peter Mwaniki ~ [mailto:pmwaniki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
|> Sent: None
|> To: simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|> Cc: solarisonintel@xxxxxxxxxxx
|> Subject: Re: [s-x86] Re: Anyone used DiskSuite 4.2
|>
|>
|> Simon Ferrett wrote:
|> |>
|> |> I'd probably lean more in the direction of something dedicated like a
|> |> Network Appliance fileserver.. That way you decouple the drives from the
|> |> computers... it becomes simple to add more space and filesystem
|> limitations
|> |> dont get in your way.
|> |>
|>
|> Simon,
|>
|> What is a network Applicance, and how does it work in a Unix environment?
|> wouldn't
|> mind a synopsis or a reference to a white paper.
|>
|> The CLARiiON FC storage is quite flexible, I can add stacks and stacks of
|> disks enclosures
|> and the connection to the "driver" system is via an Emulex Fibre Channel
|> card LP8000.
|> The card connects to the FC storage via a fibre optic cable. The disks
|> enclosures also
|> can be daisy chained ...
|>
|> -Peter Mwaniki
|>
|> |> Cheers,
|> |>
|> |> -----Original Message-----
|> |> From: Peter Mwaniki ~ [mailto:pmwaniki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
|> |> Sent: None
|> |> To: Reinhold.Fischer@xxxxxxx
|> |> Cc: solarisonintel@xxxxxxxxxxx
|> |> Subject: [s-x86] Re: Anyone used DiskSuite 4.2
|> |>
|> |>
|> |> Reinhold,
|> |>
|> |> I was hoping for something that will allow me to go to town right away.
|> It's
|> |> purely a bandwidth issue
|> |>
|> |> For instance, I could get started with the disks on the "server" ie.
|> local
|> |> to the system vs on the Fibre
|> |> arrays, and create metadb, that way, I suppose I do not fragment the
|> disks
|> |> inside the arrays. I have six
|> |> drives on the local system, so I could create eight 10m slices there for
|> |> the metadb. The balance could be
|> |> put into good use by making raw swap partitions on all eight disks. I've
|> |> 4gig RAM. so, I'm looking for ~8gig.
|> |> min swap.
|> |>
|> |> Once the above is done, I could use the "metadb" to create the replicas
|> of
|> |> metadevice state database as-
|> |>
|> |> metadb <options > slice1 slice2 slice3 ... slicen
|> |>
|> |> ? Any disadvantage in creating the database this way, should be they
|> inside
|> |> the high speed FC storage?
|> |> Any special option or hints?
|> |>
|> |> After this, I have the FC disks as a single disk, would like to use the
|> |> whole disk ( all are same )
|> |> say, I use slice 7 and define it end to end, and take, for instance 50 of
|> |> them ( each ~10g ) to create
|> |> a single filesystem. Key cosiderations being performance and ability to
|> |> create large filesystems, as long
|> |> as I can pull out my results after my jobs complete, I do not care for
|> |> anything else.
|> |>
|> |> Now, what is the best way to create these matadevices? stripped, concat
|> ...
|> |> further, if I have a metadevice
|> |> md10 md20 md30 md40, can I at times make them a single large NFS? How do
|> I
|> |> do that?
|> |>
|> |> I'm aware, I could do- metainit ... slice1 slice2 slice3 ... slicen to
|> |> create md10. Could you provide me
|> |> a specific examples you have used in your experiences.
|> |>
|> |> A commandline like-
|> |>
|> |> 1. create metadb
|> |> example ...
|> |>
|> |> 2. create metadevice
|> |> example ...
|> |>
|> |> 3. put a number of metadevices into a single NFS
|> |> example ...
|> |>
|> |> 4. newfs
|> |> example ... ( what device ? )
|> |>
|> |> Thanks once again.
|> |>
|> |> -Peter Mwaniki
|> |>
|> |>
|> |> Reinhold Fischer wrote:
|> |> |>
|> |> |> I would recommend the online documentation for disksuite on
|> |> |>
|> |> |> http://docs.sun.com/ab2/coll.260.1
|> |> |>
|> |> |> It worked very well for me.
|> |> |>
|> |> |> hth
|> |> |>
|> |> |> Reinhold Fischer
|> |> |>
|> |> |> On Fri, 4 Feb 100, Peter Mwaniki ~ wrote:
|> |> |>
|> |> |> > I'm building a research scratch server ~1 terabytes ( LP8000 FC,
|> with
|> |> CLARiiON enclosures) on a super high speed isolated network, with the
|> server
|> |> and a number of clients ( ~40 ).
|> |> |> >
|> |> |> > I would like to use DiskSuite 4.2 to build metadevices and
|> ultimately
|> |> create several large NFS to be mounted on the clients. The NFS may vary
|> in
|> |> size from .4 tera ...
|> |> |> >
|> |> |> > Question has anyone out there has a good working knowledge of
|> DiskSuite
|> |> 4.2 and ( please do NOT point me to the GUI interface ) and might have a
|> |> good reference to commandline DiskSuite commands or a set they can mail
|> to
|> |> me.
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