Sun Microsystems X4500 manual

Configuri ng the Sun Fire TM X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault Tim Thomas Sun Microsystems January 2008[...]

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Introduct ion The Sun Fire TM X4500 Se rver is a four- way server with an AMD Opteron TM processor and 12, 24, 36, or 48 1 TB of storage in 4U (7 inch es) of rack space. Compared to a traditional server with added disk arrays, the Sun Fire X4500 Server with 48 SATA II drives in a single system delivers 2 to 5 times the density of storage and saves [...]

Solutio n Descriptio n Symantec Enterprise Vault Enterprise Vault s oftware is designed to be a long-term, scalable store for unstr uctured information. Now in its seventh version, the Enterp rise Vault software delivers n ot onl y a scalable and robust storage system, but a lso provides a wide choice of implementation scenarios addressing storage [...]

Topology of an Enterprise Vault Site Enterprise Vault is a Microsoft Windows application. A site will have a database server and one or more Vault Servers, the servers that run th e Enterprise Vault s oftware. Each Vault Server archives data from applications, storing t he data as files in Vault Stores. A Vault Sto re is a logical storage object ma[...]

The SAM file system can be viewed as a cache: All the files a re kept in the cache until i t fills up, at which point the oldest or least rec ently accessed files are released 2 . If a released file is later required, the data is quickly brought back from the archives by the SAM's stager 2 process. T hese actions are transparent to a pplicatio[...]

Features and Best Practi ces WORM Storage At this time, the WORM fe atures of the S AM file system are not certified for use with the Enterprise Vaul t software. SAMBA Supp ort Because Storage Archive Manager is based on the Solaris OS for SPARC and x64 platforms, SAMBA 4 software, which is required to make a SAM file system available to servers ru[...]

Testing t he Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Atta ched Archiv al Storage for the Enterprise Vault/SAM Solution Hardware an d Software • Solaris 10 (8/07) OS • SAMBA 3.0.25a (included in Solaris 10 8/07 OS) • Sun StorageTek SAM 4.6 • Solaris ZFS • Sun Fire X4500 S erver configured with 48 x 500 GB SATA-II disks Performance Tests Extensive[...]

Test Results Test Cases 1 and 2 had all available disks configured in a single ZFS storage po ol. The SAM file system and SAM disk archive were configured from the same pool. Test Case 3 had half of the available disks configured in a pool used by the SAM file system. The second storage pool, with the other half of available disks, was configured a[...]

Configur ing the Solutio n The process fo r setting up the so lution follows this general plan : 1. Install the Solaris 10 8/07 OS (Update 4) or later with latest patches. 2. Install Sun Stor ageTek Storage A rchive Manager 4.6 wi th latest patches and its File System Manager. 3. Download the x4500samconfig s cript from the site listed i n the Appe[...]

The the following screen is displayed: ----------------------- Next Screen ------------------------- Configure Sun Fire X4500 as Network Attached Archival Storage - Release 2.1 Choose Storage Pool Profile: 1. RAID-Z Pool for SAM FS,RAID-Z Pool for Disk Archive 2. Return To Main Menu Choose a menu option: 2 The script provides one storage profile a [...]

Press 6 to start the configuratio n. The script reviews the configuration information, as shown in the following screen: ------------- ----------Ne xt Screen---- ------------- -------- Configure Sun Fire X4500 as Network Attached Archival Storage - Release 2.1 Review Configuration: Storage Profile: RAID-Z Pool for SAM FS,RAID-Z Pool for Disk Archiv[...]

samfspool0 7.1T 39K 129G 1% /samfspool0 diskvsnpool0 7.1T 39K 7.1T 1% /diskvsnpool0 diskvsnpool0/diskvsn0 7.1T 40K 7.1T 1% /diskvsn0 samfs0 7.0T 57M 7.0T 1% /samfs0 Configuring Storage Archive Manager File System Manager ships with SAM and is described in the SAM File System Manager User's Guide listed in the “For More Information” section[...]

Configuring Enterpri se Vault 1. Create a share by mapping the Sun Fire X4500 S erver's network drive to the Vault Server. 2. Navigate to the share and create a new directory to be used as a Vault St ore Partition by the Vault Server. 3. Use the Vault Administration Con sole to con figure the partition as part of a new Vault Store or as a new [...]

Managing the Sol ution Sun Fire X4500 Server Use the same tools to manage t he Sun Fire X 4500 Server as you use for any other Solaris sy stem. You can also manage the server using its Integrated Lights Out Management (ILOM) to power the server off and on and t o connect remotely to the system cons ole u sing its ssh interface and a web interface. [...]

Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Se rver as Network A ttached Archival Storage for Symante c Enterprise Vault 14 Figure 6: SAMBA Web-B ased Administration Tool[...]

Scaling the Solution In some environments, multiple archival storage un its are required due to the rate or volume of data to be archived. Symantec Enterprise Vault scales horizon tally and the partitions of a Vault Sto re can be placed on different network shares. Likewise, the Sun Fire X4500 S erver Network Attached Archival Storage solut ion can[...]

Appendix: The x4500samconfig Script Download the x4500samconfig script from the follow ing loca tion: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/x4500samconfig_tar_ Test Mode The x4500samconfig script has a test mode to simplify development. The te st mode gives you the following advantages: • You can run the script on a ny server r[...]

##### TEST MODE - NO CHANGES WERE MADE TO YOUR SYSTEM ##### #### All configuration files placed in /var/tmp/SAMFSTEST #### System Configuration is Complete. The system is ready to use. For information on managing SAM and SAMBA please consult the README file Hit Return to Exit Script. Resetting a Configured Sun Fire X4500 Server WARNIN G! : This pro[...]

For More Informa tion About Sun StorageTek Archive Manager: • Sun StorageTek Archive Manager page: http://www.sun.com/storagetek/management_software/data_management/sam/index.xml • Sun StorageTek Secure Archive page: http://www.sun.com/storagetek/archive/index.jsp • What Does Sun StorageTek A rchive Manager Do? http://blogs.sun.com/timthomas/[...]

Wikis: • Storage Administration Wiki: http://wikis.sun.com/display/StorageAdmin/Home • Storage Developer's Wiki: http://wikis.sun.com/display/StorageDev/Home • Sun Fire x64 Servers Wiki: http://wikis.sun.com/display/SunFireX64/Home Events of interest t o users of Su n products: • Worldwide Developer Events: http://developers.sun.com/ev[...]