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HP Part Number: SFSUGG31-E

Edition: 5

Published: June 2009

© Copyright 2009 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

Table of Contents

About This Document
Intended Audience
New and Changed Information in This Edition
Typographic Conventions
Related Information
Structure of This Document
Documentation Updates
HP Encourages Your Comments
1 What's In This Version
About This Product
Benefits and Features
Supported Configurations
Hardware Configuration
Server Security Policy
2 Installing and Configuring MSA Arrays
Installation
Accessing the MSA2000fc CLI
Using the CLI to Configure Multiple MSA Arrays
Configuring New Volumes
Creating New Volumes
3 Installing and Configuring HP SFS Software on Server Nodes
Supported Firmware
Installation Requirements
Kickstart Template Editing
Installation Phase 1
DVD/NFS Kickstart Procedure
DVD/USB Drive Kickstart Procedure
Network Installation Procedure
Installation Phase 2
Patch Download and Installation Procedure
Run the install2.sh Script
10 GigE Installation
Configuration Instructions
Configuring Ethernet and InfiniBand or 10 GigE Interfaces
Creating the /etc/hosts file
Configuring pdsh
Configuring ntp
Configuring User Credentials
Verifying Digital Signatures (optional)
Upgrade Installation
Rolling Upgrades
Client Upgrades
4 Installing and Configuring HP SFS Software on Client Nodes
Installation Requirements
Client Operating System and Interconnect Software Requirements
InfiniBand Clients
10 GigE Clients
Installation Instructions
Custom Client Build Procedures
CentOS 5.2/RHEL5U2 Custom Client Build Procedure
SLES10 SP2 Custom Client Build Procedure
5 Using HP SFS Software
Creating a Lustre File System
Creating the Lustre Configuration CSV File
Creating and Testing the Lustre File System
Configuring Heartbeat
Preparing Heartbeat
Generating Heartbeat Configuration Files Automatically
Configuration Files
Copying Files
Starting Heartbeat
Monitoring Failover Pairs
Moving and Starting Lustre Servers Using Heartbeat
Things to Double-Check
Things to Note
Starting the File System
Stopping the File System
Testing Your Configuration
Examining and Troubleshooting
Lustre Performance Monitoring
6 Licensing
Checking for a Valid License
Obtaining a New License
Installing a New License
7 Known Issues and Workarounds
Server Reboot
Errors from install2
Application File Locking
MDS Is Unresponsive
Changing group_upcall Value to Disable Group Validation
Configuring the mlocate Package on Client Nodes
System Behavior After LBUG
A HP SFS G3 Performance
Benchmark Platform
Single Client Performance
Throughput Scaling
One Shared File
Stragglers and Stonewalling
Random Reads
Index

List of Figures

1-1 Platform Overview
1-2 Server Pairs
A-1 Benchmark Platform
A-2 Storage Configuration
A-3 Single Stream Throughput
A-4 Single Client, Multi-Stream Write Throughput
A-5 Writes Slow When Cache Fills
A-6 Multi-Client Throughput Scaling
A-7 Multi-Client Throughput and File Stripe Count
A-8 Stonewalling
A-9 Random Read Rate

List of Tables

1-1 Supported Configurations
3-1 Minimum Firmware Versions
   


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