Sun Microsystems X4500 инструкция обслуживания

Sun Fire X4500 as a Symantec Netbackup 6.5 Media Server A Quick Start Guide Sun Microsy stems December 11, 2007[...]

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Sun Mi crosystems, Inc. Table of Contents Introduction..................................................................................................................................................... 3 Configuration ..................................................................................................................................[...]

3 Introduction Sun Mi crosystems, Inc. Introduction The Sun Fire ( TM) X4500 serv er delivers massive storag e capacity and remar kable thro ughput ma king it an ideal nea rline storage platf orm fo r backup and res tore applications. Co mbining the power of the S olaris 10 Operating System with the data integri ty and simplified administration o f[...]

4 Configuration Sun Mi crosystems, Inc. Configuration Overview The below diagram sho ws an example NBU co nfiguration wit h the X 4500 acting as a Media Server . The defaul t NIC configuration on the X 4500 allows up to f our physical GigaBit Eth ernet connect ions to be a ttached. Th e four connect ions can be utilized to bac k up four separate su[...]

5 Configuration Sun Mi crosystems, Inc. Solaris Configuration The X 4500 server used while t esting for th is paper was instal led with Solaris 10 8/07. This is the recommen ded version to use with Ne tbackup as various ZFS improvements were i ntroduced in t his build. The X 4500 has 48 500GB SATA drives. The two boo t drives (c5t0d0 and c5t4 d0) a[...]

6 Configuration Sun Mi crosystems, Inc. root@thumper1 # zpool list NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT nbupool 18.1T 58.6G 18.1T 0% ONLINE - The size listed in the above com mand is the actua l physical space in the poo l. This may differ from the actual space data may occupy as various RAIDZ meth ods and co nfigurations are not tak en into acc[...]

7 Configuration Sun Mi crosystems, Inc. Netbackup Configuration The X 4500 will be configured as a M edia Server. In th is example, it is assumed that t here is a s eparate Mast er NBU server. The “N etbackup and Media Man ager” p ackage must be installed o n the X4500. It also will require the app ropriate server licensing. It is recommende d [...]

8 Configuration Sun Mi crosystems, Inc. Where “machi nename” is the name o f the X4500 an d “ masterserver” is the name of t he Maste r Server. The resu lts of this comman d can be verified # nbemmcmd -listhost NBEMMCMD, Version:6.5 The following hosts were found: media thumper1 master sol-230 server sol-230 Command comple ted successfully [...]

9 Configuration Sun Mi crosystems, Inc. Use the NetB ackup GUI for t he rema ining configuratio n Verify tha t the Me dia Server is recogniz ed via “Host P roperties -> Media Serve rs” Click on t he X4500 hos tname t o ensure the Med ia Server is “C onnected” T he Maste r Server will alr eady be listed.[...]

10 Sun Mi crosystems, Inc. To creat e a Storage U nit using the ZFS filesyste ms previously configured, fo llow the below pr ocedures “Sto rage -> Storage Un its” Right-Click to add new Sto rage Unit[...]

11 Sun Mi crosystems, Inc. Storage U nit Configuratio n • Use Basic Disk as the Type • Ensure the Media Server is t he X4500 • Set the Absolute pathna me to on e of t he ZFS filesystems[...]

12 Sun Mi crosystems, Inc. Follow the same proce dures for the rest of the ZFS filesyst ems you have configure d.[...]

13 Sun Mi crosystems, Inc. The individual Storag e Units could then be used as backup destinatio ns, howev er, con figuring Storage Groups can prove benef icial. Add a New Storag e Group[...]

14 Sun Mi crosystems, Inc. Add the Sto rage Units that h ave been created int o a Stora ge Group. The Storag e Unit Selection wil l be “R ound-Robin”. This will ensure that backup stre ams are allocat ed across all units.[...]

15 Sun Mi crosystems, Inc. Once the Storage Gro up is configured, the Policy Attributes fo r the backup jobs can be configured to use the Storage Group as the “Po licy Sto rage” .[...]

16 Frequently Asked Qu estions Sun Mi crosystems, Inc. Frequently Asked Qu estions Q1: How does th e X4500 scale as th e wor kload increas es? A1: Testing was don e to m easure scalability by saturating each onboar d GigE port in t urn. Three Zpoo l configurations were t ested. The RAIDZ1-6Spares (14.3TB of usuable space) configura tion is the conf[...]

17 Frequently Asked Qu estions Sun Mi crosystems, Inc. A2: Yes. A Proof -of-C oncept was do ne for a la rge customer a nd 10GB Eth ernet was part of t he testi ng. Using a Neterion Xfram e II and the xge dr iver, 8 clients capable of delivering 100MB/sec e ach were configured to b ackup to a X4500. Jumbo Frames we re enab led on al l component s. T[...]

18 Summary Sun Mi crosystems, Inc. Summary This guide was a Quick Start intr oduction into configuring the Sun Fire X4500 as a disk-cache Media Server fo r Veritas Netbackup 6.5. It gav e examples on con figuring the zpo ol and zfs filesystems on Solaris and how to confi guration the Netbackup application to utilize the X 4500. Using this guide, ba[...]

19 References Sun Mi crosystems, Inc. Referenc es i. Veritas Netbackup 6.5 Documentation 1. http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/search_forms/do c_list.asp?DocType=Comp&C LSUB=NBUESVRSUB11682&MSUB=NBUESVRSUB 11686&SearchArea=ALL&el=%2C+1& ddProduct=NBUESVR&pid=&width=&Searc hTerm=&subject=NBUESVRSUB11686&Pro d[...]