Document Outline

• HP Scalable File Share User Guide
• 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
  • 1.1 About This Product
  • 1.2 Benefits and Features
  • 1.3 Supported Configurations
    • 1.3.1 Hardware Configuration
      • 1.3.1.1 Server Memory Requirements
      • 1.3.1.2 Fibre Channel Switch Zoning
  • 1.4 Server Security Policy
  • 1.5 Release Notes
    • 1.5.1 New and Changed Information in This Edition
    • 1.5.2 Bug Fixes
    • 1.5.3 Known Issues
• 2 Installing and Configuring MSA Arrays
  • 2.1 Installation
  • 2.2 Accessing the MSA CLI
  • 2.3 Using the CLI to Configure Multiple MSA Arrays
    • 2.3.1 Configuring New Volumes
    • 2.3.2 Creating New Volumes
  • 2.4 MSA2000 Monitoring
    • 2.4.1 email Notifications
      • 2.4.1.1 GUI Method
      • 2.4.1.2 CLI Method
      • 2.4.1.3 Mail Server Configuration
    • 2.4.2 SNMP Monitoring
• 3 Installing and Configuring HP SFS Software on Server Nodes
  • 3.1 Supported Firmware
  • 3.2 Installation Requirements
    • 3.2.1 Kickstart Template Editing
  • 3.3 Installation Phase 1
    • 3.3.1 DVD/NFS Kickstart Procedure
    • 3.3.2 DVD/USB Drive Kickstart Procedure
    • 3.3.3 Network Installation Procedure
  • 3.4 Installation Phase 2
    • 3.4.1 Patch Download and Installation Procedure
    • 3.4.2 Run the install2.sh Script
    • 3.4.3 10 GigE Installation
  • 3.5 Configuration Instructions
    • 3.5.1 Configuring Ethernet and InfiniBand or 10 GigE Interfaces
    • 3.5.2 Creating the /etc/hosts file
    • 3.5.3 Configuring pdsh
    • 3.5.4 Configuring ntp
    • 3.5.5 Configuring User Credentials
    • 3.5.6 Verifying Digital Signatures (optional)
      • 3.5.6.1 Verifying the HP Public Key (optional)
      • 3.5.6.2 Verifying the Signed RPMs (optional)
  • 3.6 Upgrade Installation
    • 3.6.1 Rolling Upgrades
    • 3.6.2 Client Upgrades
• 4 Installing and Configuring HP SFS Software on Client Nodes
  • 4.1 Installation Requirements
    • 4.1.1 Client Operating System and Interconnect Software Requirements
    • 4.1.2 InfiniBand Clients
    • 4.1.3 10 GigE Clients
  • 4.2 Installation Instructions
  • 4.3 Custom Client Build Procedures
    • 4.3.1 CentOS 5.3/RHEL5U3 Custom Client Build Procedure
    • 4.3.2 SLES10 SP2 Custom Client Build Procedure
• 5 Using HP SFS Software
  • 5.1 Creating a Lustre File System
    • 5.1.1 Creating the Lustre Configuration CSV File
      • 5.1.1.1 Multiple File Systems
    • 5.1.2 Creating and Testing the Lustre File System
  • 5.2 Configuring Heartbeat
    • 5.2.1 Preparing Heartbeat
    • 5.2.2 Generating Heartbeat Configuration Files Automatically
    • 5.2.3 Configuration Files
      • 5.2.3.1 Generating the cib.xml File
      • 5.2.3.2 Editing cib.xml
    • 5.2.4 Copying Files
    • 5.2.5 Things to Double-Check
    • 5.2.6 Things to Note
    • 5.2.7 Preventing Collisions Among Multiple HP SFS Servers
  • 5.3 Starting the File System
  • 5.4 Stopping the File System
  • 5.5 Monitoring Failover Pairs
  • 5.6 Moving and Starting Lustre Servers Using Heartbeat
  • 5.7 Testing Your Configuration
    • 5.7.1 Examining and Troubleshooting
      • 5.7.1.1 On the Server
      • 5.7.1.2 The writeconf Procedure
      • 5.7.1.3 On the Client
  • 5.8 Lustre Performance Monitoring
• 6 Licensing
  • 6.1 Obtaining a New License
  • 6.2 Installing a New License
  • 6.3 Checking for a Valid License
• 7 Known Issues and Workarounds
  • 7.1 Server Reboot
  • 7.2 Errors from install2
  • 7.3 Application File Locking
  • 7.4 MDS Is Unresponsive
  • 7.5 Changing group_upcall Value to Disable Group Validation
  • 7.6 Configuring the mlocate Package on Client Nodes
  • 7.7 System Behavior After LBUG
  • 7.8 SELinux Support
  • 7.9 Misconfigured Lustre target config logs due to incorrect CSV file used during lustre_config
  • 7.10 MSA2000fc G1 incorrect MSA cabling between MSA2212fc controllers and SAN switches with zoned SAN switch.
  • 7.11 Standby server does not take over neighboring resources
• A HP SFS G3 Performance
  • A.1 Benchmark Platform
  • A.2 Single Client Performance
  • A.3 Throughput Scaling
  • A.4 One Shared File
  • A.5 Stragglers and Stonewalling
  • A.6 Random Reads
  • A.7 DDR InfiniBand Performance Using MSA2312 with Three Attached JBODs
    • A.7.1 Benchmark Platform
    • A.7.2 Single Stream Throughput
    • A.7.3 Throughput Scaling
  • A.8 10 GigE Performance
    • A.8.1 Benchmark Platform
    • A.8.2 Single Stream Throughput
    • A.8.3 Throughput Scaling
• Index