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Newbie Help
by Prashant Desai 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

Hi There I am new to storage arean any good links to start learning about storage networking , i wanna know it inside out and wants to start with fundamentals any pointers will help me regards Prashant

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syslog, swatch/logsurfer, and you
by Peter 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

Hello toasters, I've been thinking of doing some additional monitoring of my filers using swatch or logsurfer. I am currently looking at transcribing what docs I could find on the NOW site to swatch or logsurfer regex, but thought it might be a good idea to see if someone has done this already and would care to share any info with me. I've also looked around the NOW site for actual examples of syslog entries that the filers will generate when something bad has happened, but was unsuccessful in finding anything. Has anyone located or compiled such a list? I googled, searched the toasters archives, etc. No luck. Anyway, let me know if you have anything interesting to share! Thanks, Peter Radavich

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DOT 6.4.2P11
by Kerry Herschel 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

I need to upgrade a R150 from DOT version 6.4.1P1D1 to DOT 6.4.2P11 because of bug 102089/Disk spin up errors could lead to wafl hung panic. My system did a system panic and rebooted last week due to this error. I'm a little nervous though about upgrading to a non-GA release. Is anyone out there running this release? (Netapp claims 20 systems are running it). If so any issues with it? Thanks for any input, Kerry Herschel ================================================================ Margaret.K.Herschel(a)jpl.nasa.gov ICIS Jet Propulsion Laboratory Phone 818.354.1111 DISCLAIMER: The personal and professional opinions presented herein are my own and do not, in any way, represent the opinion or policy of JPL.

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Default units for quotas in 6.4.2P6
by Chris Thompson 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

We have just upgraded from 6.3.3 to 6.4.2P6 (now it is "GA") and suffered a nasty consequence. If an entry in /etc/quotas doesn't specify any of "K", "M" or "G" for the limit, e.g. 261 user@/home 81920 4000 then the units are taken to be bytes rather than (as before, since time immemorial) kilobytes. In the example the limit becomes 80 KB rather than 80 MB. We have a daily useradmin job that runs overnight, and among other things builds a new /etc/quotas from another data source and then does a "quota resize". Our users weren't too happy to have all their quotas divided by 1024 in one swell foop... I have added an explicit "K" now, of course. All the documentation I can find still claims that "The default for the disk limits and warning threshold is kilobytes", so maybe this is a bug. Or maybe it will be reclassified as a feature when NetApp get around to updating the documentation. Anyway, it's something anyone upgrading ought to beware of. Chris Thompson Email: cet1(a)cam.ac.uk

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Large directory performance bug? F760/6.1.2R3/Linux/2.4.20
by Chris Miles 01 Dec '03

01 Dec '03

Hi, we have over 20 webservers running a web application and serving all the data off a Netapp NFS mount. Netapp CPU normally sits at around 20-40% and NFS response is good. Today we hit what appears to have been a bug of some sort. All of a sudden, with no apparent increase in client connections, the F760 CPU went to 80-90% and the load on all the webservers rose sharply (from approx 0.5-1.5 up to 15-20). The site response went down the drain (20+ seconds for a page that normally takes under 1 second). It appeared to be caused by the application doing readdirs (along with other operations: read/write/getattr) on a specific directory, which at that time held about 70,000 files. We fixed the problem by disabling the readdirs within the application and also reducing the number of files in that directory down to about 45,000. We don't know exactly which fix (stopping readdirs or removing the files) did the trick, but after that Netapp CPU dropped back to normal and the webservers were happy and the site responsive again. It appeared that the combination of all the operations on the large directory were causing the NFS clients to hang and the Netapp CPU to max out. Although at the same time, other NFS operations were still performing at a reasonable speed (ie, the whole Netapp was not locked up). Any ideas on a bug or limitation on either the Linux or the Netapp side with regards to large (70,000+ files) directories? Info: Netapp F760C ONTAP 6.1.2R3 Linux 2.4.20 (Redhat) Mount options: rw,hard,intr,vers=3,proto=tcp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 Cheers, Chris -- Chris Miles http://chrismiles.info/

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Maintenance on a filer with FCP connections...
by Don Hickey 01 Dec '03

01 Dec '03

When rebooting a filer that has SAN connections via FCP what is the "proper" procedure? Should all LUNs be unmounted from their respective systems first? Is a sync all that's required or is that even necessary? We have a few oracle databases on netapp LUNs and I need to upgrade the os and reboot. Just didn't want to shoot myself in the foot. thanks, -- Don

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ndmp DAR veritas FP3
by Jerry 01 Dec '03

01 Dec '03

I was wondering if anyone is using DAR with Veritas which came out in FP3. I am currently upgrading from Maintenance Pack 3 to Feature Pack 3 (and eventually feature pack 5) to get the DAR feature, but I was wondering if anyone had any bad/good experiences to share with DAR and with upgrading veritas to support it. Jerry __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/

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a dying man's plea
by larry moore 29 Nov '03

29 Nov '03

Greetings to you and your family in the name of God. In my search for a reliable and God fearing person and having gotten your contact through prayers and painstaking efforts I have decided to seek your help in carrying out my last wish .My names are Larry Moore. I'm a 65 years old man and a British living in Dubai (United Arab Emirate). I was a merchant and owned two businesses in Dubai. I was also married with two children. My wife and two children died in a car accident six years ago. Before this happened my business and concern for making money was all I lived for. I never really cared about other values in life. But since the loss of my family, I have found a new desire to assist helpless families. I have been helping orphans in orphanage/ motherless homes. I have also donated some money for humanitarian needs in Sudan, South Africa, Cameroon, Brazil, Spain, Austria, Germany and some Asian countries. Only recently I saw on television the colossal loss of pro perties and livelihood of people in Canberra, Australia through fire. I was moved with great pity and compassion that I decided to make a contribution on assisting people over there. Before I became ill, I kept $12.5 Million in a long-term deposit account in a finance company . Presently, I'm in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for oesophageal cancer. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a few months to live. It is my last wish to see this money distributed to victims of this fire outbreak in Australia and other charity organizations. Because relatives and friends have plundered so much of my wealth since my illness, I cannot live with the agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them. Please, I beg you in the name of God to help me collect the deposit and the interest accrued from the company in Canada and distribute it accordingly. Use your judgement to distribute the money and keep 5% of it t o yourself. Feel free to reimburse yourself when you have the money for any cost you incur during the process of collecting and distributing the money. If you are willing to help, please reply as soon as you can. May the good Lord bless you and your family. Regards, Larry Moore ---------------- Powered by telstra.com

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RE: Root recovery without diskettes? Ulp.
by Borders, Rich 29 Nov '03

29 Nov '03

You can make new disks from the NOW site, or you can go to maintenance mode ( be sure to get your license keys off it first ( rsh ) and then change the root password in the maintenance menu. Richard D Borders > -----Original Message----- > From: Professor Frink [mailto:proffrink@hotmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 5:21 AM > To: toasters(a)mathworks.com > Subject: Root recovery without diskettes? Ulp. > > I have a F740 with 4 FC9 7x36G shelves that I'm prepping for > putting up for sale, and want to scrub the old corporate data > off of it. Unfortunately, the root password is long since > been lost, and the OnTap diskettes are not available (in the > ex-wife's house in a bitter divorce, d'oh!). > > Is there any way to recover the root password somehow without > the original floppies; I'm even willing to pooch all the > data, since I want it scrubbed anyway. > > Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. As it is, the > unit is just one deafening white noise generating, air > blowing, heating system. :( > > Thanks. > > _________________________________________________________________ > The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months > FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a > %2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca > >

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Root recovery without diskettes? Ulp.
by Professor Frink 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

I have a F740 with 4 FC9 7x36G shelves that I'm prepping for putting up for sale, and want to scrub the old corporate data off of it. Unfortunately, the root password is long since been lost, and the OnTap diskettes are not available (in the ex-wife's house in a bitter divorce, d'oh!). Is there any way to recover the root password somehow without the original floppies; I'm even willing to pooch all the data, since I want it scrubbed anyway. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. As it is, the unit is just one deafening white noise generating, air blowing, heating system. :( Thanks. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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IPSec on OnTap 6.4
by Garrett Burke 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Hi, Was wondering if anyone has tried using the IPSec support in OnTap 6.4, either with or without the accelerator module? What sort of throughput are you getting with a particular filer/client spec and what sort of CPU load is the filer experiencing? thanks, GB ---- Garrett Burke, Service Implementation & Support Manager, Eircomnet. http://www.eircom.net

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GOOD DAY
by jude okoro 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

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LETTER FROM DR. ALBERT.
by albertosaro＠katamail.com 25 Nov '03

25 Nov '03

OSARO AND ASSOCIATES 40 ABIODUN STR. VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS, NIGERIA. Email:albertosaro@katamail.com TEL:234-1-848322 Dear Sir, l am a financial consultant based in Lagos, Nigeria.l have a client (widow) she has $12,000,000 with a Private Equity Investment Trust Company for safekeeping. And she is willing to offer you 20% of the total fund if you can assist her transfer this fund to your country or any bank of your wish.She wishes to invest in a stable economy. Her interest is in companies with potentials for rapid growth in long terms. My client is interested in placing part of her fund in your company,if your country`s bi-laws allows foreign investment. You can contact me for more details via my e-mail address or Phone number stated above. Yours Sincerely, DR. ALBERT OSARO. (Managing Director)

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migrate to W2K AD
by Bui, Marcus 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

Hello Toasters, I'm preparing to migrate a couple of Filers from NT4 Domain to W2K AD. Want get input for any 'gotchas' I need to prepare for and a few questions I have. Questions: 1. Can you move back to the original NT4 Domain after migrating to W2K AD? Just in case there is are issues I need to backout and go back to original state. 2. Do I need to migrate both Filer in the cluster at the same time? I don't think so but just want to confirm. 3. Anyone ran across these bugs: 70049 <http://now.netapp.com/cgi-bin/bol?Type=Detail&Display=70049> (especially this one), 96015 <http://now.netapp.com/cgi-bin/bol?Type=Detail&Display=96015> , 99187 <http://now.netapp.com/cgi-bin/bol?Type=Detail&Display=99187> ? Here, roaming profile is enabled and the profile is copied back to the Filer. Environment: - F880c, ONTAP 6.4.1, CIFS only - W2K mixed mode - LAN ID stays the same - clients in NT4 Domain and AD Domain thanks, Marcus Bui ----------------------------------------- Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message, and any attachments, may contain confidential and/or privileged material. It is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.

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GOOD DAY
by fred_taylor11＠tiscali.co.uk 22 Nov '03

22 Nov '03

Dear Friend, It is my pleasure to write you this confidential letter irrespective of the fact that we have not met. Very strong recommendation was made about you by a friend of mine who works with Liberia High Commission in Monrovia as a straightforward and honest businesssman. Though I did not disclose to him my proposals all I demanded from him was to link me with very trustworthy foreign business man or woman I can trust. My name is Fredrick Taylor, the junior brother to President Charles Taylor of the Country Liberia. Please I humbly beg you from the bottom of my heart to treat this confidential letter very secret. The rebel forces and the intense pressure from United States, United Nation,International Community and West Africa Peace Keeping force ?Ecomog? had finally toppled my brother government and now he is on exile with his immediate family but I am still behind. Please listen to me very carefully. Under my custody are boxes containing $25m. If the new government in place sees or discovers the fund they will take the money and plunder it. I have secretly hidden the boxes containing the fund and I will move the boxes of fund to you for safe keeping to any address of your choice through Diplomatic Courier Service or a reputable security company tagged Diplomatic Luggage with your name as the beneficiary. Furthermore, when the boxes get to you in 7 days, you notify me immediately so that I will come to your country to divide the fund. It shall be divided 70% for me and 30% for you period. My own share will be used for investment in your country. Therefore i beg to start looking around for me a lucrative wealth creating ,profit generating business investment opportunities . If you agree and to be an honest person for this transaction,reply me through this email address. It is very urgent. Best Regards, Frederick Taylor

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Please Be My Investor Trustee
by fatimaazad 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

From: Fatima T. Azad Email:fatimaazad@libero.it Dear Sir, Please Be My Investor Trustee. I wish to write pleading with you to be my Investor trustee over $12.5million. My late Husband Alhaji Abu Azad was a rich oil Contractor in South Africa, But before his death in July 29th 1999. He deposited the sum of ($12,500,000.00) USD for safe keeping in a Bank Europe through Debt Reconciliation Committee (DRC). The money which he made from oil contract and left an instruction with the (DRC) that an Investor should accompany us before the $12.5Million will be released to us for proper investment, and also for the welfare of the children which he left behind for me. I plead with you to accept to help me and act as my investor trustee to manage the $12.5Million for me. We can both arrange on how to invest this money into your company. We have agreed to give you 20% of the $12.5Million for your own assistance, 5% for any expenses that may occure during the process of retrieving this funds from the DRC,( like you flight to the DRC office and other bills, etc). All the relevant documents shall be forwarded to you upon your indications to assist me in this project. May the Almighty God bless you, if you will of trust and be faithful to assist me. Please contact me on my private e-mail address . Looking forward to hearing from you. Sincerely Yours, Mrs. Fatima Azad

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AS SOON AS POSIBLE
by tom appiah 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

DEAR, My name is Tom Appiah, 41 years Liberian Married with Five Children. I worked as an Administration Secretary to the late Minister of Commerce and trade under the regime of President Charles Taylor who is presently in Nigeria on asylum. My late boss who not only was my boss but also handled Me as his own brother, was killed by President Charles Taylor after he was accused of trying to overthrow his Government early this year.Immediately after my boss death, I ran for my dear Life with my wife and children to a nearby country Ghana with my late boss official briefcase where he kept most Of his confidential Documents. While I was going through some of his confidential Documents, I saw a deposit Form proving that he Deposited a consignment in a Security Company in the Ghana where I was taking refuge.I then kept on opening other letters in the bag to Know if I could know exactly the content of the Deposited consignment. As luck will have it I ran into a big envelope containing details of the deposit made in the Security Company and the content of the consignment. From the Personal letter I saw, he stated that he told the Security Company that the consignment that he Deposited contained Family Treasure. But the true Content of the consignment was Thirty One Million United States Dollars, ($31,000,000.00).He also told the management of the Security Company That the Consignment belonged to his foreign partner.As luck will still have it, the very name of this his Very foreign partner was not stated, this makes easy For any person to come forward as his Foreign Partner. I have gone to trace this very Security Company in Ghana with their address, and I have found it. The Problem I have now is that I can not claim that Consignment because I am not a foreigner, my boss Stated that the consignment belong to his Foreign Partner. Please dear, if you will be able to help me claim this Consignment, try to indicate by sending me your Full Name, Personal e-mail, telephone and Fax numbers where I can Easily communicate with you. Even if you decide not help, try to keep it to your Self-alone please. For you to help me claim this Consignment, I will be giving you 30% of the total Amount in the consignment, 10% will be mapped out for Any expenses that may occur in the course of the Release of the consignment to you. I will keep 40% to Myself and then the balance of 20% will be sent to the Family of my late boss. I hope you will not be worried how I got your Contact. I got it while I was chatting on the Internet.I decided to contact you believing that by the grace Of God that you will help. I will also be personally going to the Security Company with you when ever the consignment will be Release to you.This my mail address barristertomappiah(a)yahoo.co.uk I look forward to your urgent reply. Best regards, Barrister Tom Appiah. ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk

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financial support
by sinjas006＠netzero.com 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

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Greetings
by Henri windu 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

URGENT NEED. I am Henry Winndu, an Aide of Ex President Charles Taylor. As you may know he has recently stepped down from power and is presently in asylum in Calabar. The purpose of my letter is to ask if you can render the assistance requested and to bring to bear my present position and the very need for true and solicited help with respect to Ex President Taylor. Your assistance is needed in the sense that some funds derived from Diamond sales during his tenure needs to be transferred/moved from its present location to a place or an account that you may hopefully provide or arrange. The reason for this is that plans are underway to confiscate not only his known fixed assets but also liquid assets. I have been mandated to seek and find a relaible person, based overseas, that is disposed in helping to secure some or all of the funds in question. if this proposal fascinate you, and you are willing to assit kindly e-mail me. Otherwise no offence meant. Sincerely yours, Henri Winndu. Alternative email: henriwinndu(a)123.com Please provide your telephone for immediate contact

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RE: slow dumps
by Rogers, Jamie 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

I wanted to relay some the information that I received regarding my problem with slow file system dumps from my toaster to my Solaris 8 remote tape. As well as thank those persons who responded. I received three suggestions. The first was to try using a different blocking factor, I had tried using different blocking factors but not larger as in this suggestion. I am evaluating a blocking factor of 128 which has doubled my throughput. Not what it should be but still a 100% improvement! As has been noted you have to keep this in mind on a restore as well. (rsh $FILER dump 0ubf 128 $SUNBOX:/dev/rmt/1 /vol/vol2). The second suggestion that I received indicated a similar issue with a very wide but not necessarily deep directory structure where NDMP dumps went from 50+GB/hour to around 8kbps. Apparently "NetApp have indicated it is an NDMP/dump issue and there is no fix". However this site upgraded to 6.4.x and saw much greater throughput, (no data). I have not yet decided to upgrade Data ONTAP. The third suggestion that I received noted that "Lots of small files, especially lots of small files in a single directory is a dump performance killer. Basically you spend a lot of time doing the meta data stuff (path, permissions, etc) and little time to get the tape streaming to dump the data. I'd be willing to bet the same amount of data but in a few large files would back up significantly quicker...at least that's been my experience." This is indeed true. He had two suggestions. The first was to try using the native hidden command "dd" on the filer which is really less friendly than the dump command but might be worth a try. "DD" has its draw backs and limitations and it seems like it might be an administrative nightmare. The second suggestion was to use snapmirror, which is unfortunately a bit cost prohibitive. Thanks for all your help. I'll let you know if an OS upgrade helps if I try it. Other suggestions are always welcomed. -Jamie -----Original Message----- From: Rogers, Jamie [mailto:jrogers@aware.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 4:10 PM To: 'toasters(a)mathworks.com' Subject: slow dumps Toasters, I have an F760 running data ontap 6.3.1 with 4 FC-9 (7x32) shelves attached. I use Ultra 10 with a HP SureStore718 LVD autoloader for remote backups. I use rsh (rsh filer dump 0uf sunbox:/dev/rmt/1 /vol/vol1) via a cron job to run the dump. The Ultra10 and the filer are connected on a private network via 100TX crossover cable. Local file system backups (from the Ultra 10) to this tape drive go at about 4+ Meg/sec, great. The root volume of my filer and /vol3 dump at 4+ Megs/sec, this is great. However 2 volumes, vol1 and vol2, dump at 571Kb/sec. This performance is independent of the interface used, I get the same results using my 100TX or my gigabit. Likewise I get the same results when the dump is run from the filer, that is eliminating rsh. Sysstat looks normal during both dumps. The only difference in the volumes is the number of files, volumes 1 and 2 each have about 2 million files where as volume 3 has 1.2 million files and the root is about 10,000 files with out quotas. The data on volumes 1 and 2 consists of lots of small files and changes frequently whereas volumes 0 and 3 are pretty static. I have already cut the volumes up into 4 qtrees of 30G each. A quota report does not look out of the ordinary and no single quota tree has more than 950,000 files, see quota report below. What could be causing the dumps to progress so slowly? Any suggestions to speed up my backups? K-Bytes Files Type ID Volume Tree Used Limit Used Limit Quota Specifier ----- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ------- ------- --------------- tree 1 vol4 zeus21 0 31457280 3 - /vol/vol4/zeus21 tree 2 vol4 zeus22 0 31457280 3 - /vol/vol4/zeus22 tree 3 vol4 zeus23 0 31457280 3 - /vol/vol4/zeus23 tree 4 vol4 zeus24 3969544 31457280 22085 - /vol/vol4/zeus24 tree 1 vol3 zeus17 3076 31457280 5 - /vol/vol3/zeus17 tree 2 vol3 zeus18 0 31457280 3 - /vol/vol3/zeus18 tree 3 vol3 tools_19 21525624 31457280 343289 - /vol/vol3/tools_19 tree 4 vol3 tools_20 22765236 31457280 701033 - /vol/vol3/tools_20 tree 1 vol2 zeus13 21631732 31457280 439528 - /vol/vol2/zeus13 tree 2 vol2 zeus14 30732636 31457280 716547 - /vol/vol2/zeus14 tree 3 vol2 zeus15 21069420 31457280 721908 - /vol/vol2/zeus15 tree 4 vol2 zeus16 0 31457280 3 - /vol/vol2/zeus16 tree 2 vol1 zeus11 26029280 31457280 933922 - /vol/vol1/zeus11 tree 3 vol1 zeus12 29793368 31457280 788538 - /vol/vol1/zeus12 Thanks, Jamie -Jamie.

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REMOVE
by BK LIM 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

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Unix find and exclude snapshots
by Darragh, Stephen J 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

Hi, I am having trouble using unix find and excluding anything in .snapshot. I can't see any flag for exclude Suggestions??? Thanks Stephen Darragh

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FAS200 series performance
by Geoff Hardin 12 Nov '03

12 Nov '03

Has anyone seen any performance numbers for the FAS200 series? We are looking at upgrading / replacing some older F700 systems and I wanted to know how they stacked up. I know the disk capacity isn't all that much different (4 TB raw for FAS270C vs 6 TB raw for F760C), but what about NFS ops? We're not pushing that much through now, but if we start consolidating... -- Geoff Hardin geoff.hardin(a)dalsemi.com If you want to get to the top, be prepared to kiss a lot the bottom. - Despair, Inc.

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12 Nov '03

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slow dumps
by Rogers, Jamie 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

Toasters, I have an F760 running data ontap 6.3.1 with 4 FC-9 (7x32) shelves attached. I use Ultra 10 with a HP SureStore718 LVD autoloader for remote backups. I use rsh (rsh filer dump 0uf sunbox:/dev/rmt/1 /vol/vol1) via a cron job to run the dump. The Ultra10 and the filer are connected on a private network via 100TX crossover cable. Local file system backups (from the Ultra 10) to this tape drive go at about 4+ Meg/sec, great. The root volume of my filer and /vol3 dump at 4+ Megs/sec, this is great. However 2 volumes, vol1 and vol2, dump at 571Kb/sec. This performance is independent of the interface used, I get the same results using my 100TX or my gigabit. Likewise I get the same results when the dump is run from the filer, that is eliminating rsh. Sysstat looks normal during both dumps. The only difference in the volumes is the number of files, volumes 1 and 2 each have about 2 million files where as volume 3 has 1.2 million files and the root is about 10,000 files with out quotas. The data on volumes 1 and 2 consists of lots of small files and changes frequently whereas volumes 0 and 3 are pretty static. I have already cut the volumes up into 4 qtrees of 30G each. A quota report does not look out of the ordinary and no single quota tree has more than 950,000 files, see quota report below. What could be causing the dumps to progress so slowly? Any suggestions to speed up my backups? K-Bytes Files Type ID Volume Tree Used Limit Used Limit Quota Specifier ----- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ------- ------- --------------- tree 1 vol4 zeus21 0 31457280 3 - /vol/vol4/zeus21 tree 2 vol4 zeus22 0 31457280 3 - /vol/vol4/zeus22 tree 3 vol4 zeus23 0 31457280 3 - /vol/vol4/zeus23 tree 4 vol4 zeus24 3969544 31457280 22085 - /vol/vol4/zeus24 tree 1 vol3 zeus17 3076 31457280 5 - /vol/vol3/zeus17 tree 2 vol3 zeus18 0 31457280 3 - /vol/vol3/zeus18 tree 3 vol3 tools_19 21525624 31457280 343289 - /vol/vol3/tools_19 tree 4 vol3 tools_20 22765236 31457280 701033 - /vol/vol3/tools_20 tree 1 vol2 zeus13 21631732 31457280 439528 - /vol/vol2/zeus13 tree 2 vol2 zeus14 30732636 31457280 716547 - /vol/vol2/zeus14 tree 3 vol2 zeus15 21069420 31457280 721908 - /vol/vol2/zeus15 tree 4 vol2 zeus16 0 31457280 3 - /vol/vol2/zeus16 tree 2 vol1 zeus11 26029280 31457280 933922 - /vol/vol1/zeus11 tree 3 vol1 zeus12 29793368 31457280 788538 - /vol/vol1/zeus12 Thanks, Jamie -Jamie.

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