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Nazmul Khan

Technical Account Manager

System Infrastructure (Sun Service)

Orange Business Services

Agenda

1. Introduction of Sun QFS.

2. Feature and benefit of Sun QFS.

3. Install & configure Sun QFS.

4. Sun QFS with File-system manager.

5. Administration of Sun QFS.

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5. Administration of Sun QFS.

6. Different parameter of Sun QFS.

7. Share with multiple host.

8. Additional Information.

9. Q & A

Introduction of Sun QFS.

� 1. Introduction of Sun QFS(Quick File System).

Sun QFS (Quick File System) is an open source filesystem from Sun Microsystems.

It is tightly integrated with SAM, the Storage and Archive Manager, and hence is

often referred to as SAM-QFS. Sun QFS provides you with a high-performance

solution that enables you to consolidate, share, and protect your business

information.

Sun QFS improves time to results for collaborative environments and delivers

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Sun QFS improves time to results for collaborative environments and delivers

maximum scalability, quality of service, and data management for the most diverse

data-intensive applications.

Feature and benefit of Sun QFS.2� Large, existing, and loyal customer base

� > Stable base, shipping since Aug., 2002

� Targets large enterprises, grid, and HPC

� > Clients run on Solaris (SPARC & x64) & Linux

� > Metadata server runs on Solaris (SPARC & x64)

� > HA option with Sun Cluster

� Built in HSM with SAM

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� Built in HSM with SAM

� Sun QFS supports 1000 nodes

� Targets HPC compute clusters

� Largest known disk file system – 1 PB

� Largest no. of files in one file system – 100 million

� Largest amount of data stored by SAM for 1 customer – 6.5PB

Install and configure Sun QFS. 3

� Install & configure Sun QFS.

1. Download the SAM-FS software and patches.

2. Mount Sun QFS ISO file on OS.

# lofiadm -a /absolute/path/sam_qfs_5.0.iso

# mount -F hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt

1. Install the SAM-FS packages.

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1. Install the SAM-FS packages.

2. # pkgadd -d . SUNWsamfsr SUNWsamfsu

� All the configurations are in /etc/opt/SUNWsamfs

1) /etc/opt/SUNWsamfs/mcf

2) /etc/opt/SUNWsamfs/samfs.cmd

3) / etc/opt/SUNWsamfs/hosts.<qfs filename>

4) /etc/vfstab

Sun QFS with File-system manager. 4

� Brower-based Filesytem Manager

� Multi-node SAM, QFS, Shared QFS configurations

� Media Management

� Configuration Wizard

� Archive policy

Tuning Options

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� Tuning Options

� Operations

� Administer Roles

Administration of Sun QFS.5� For Non-Shared QFS, To check on QFS information:

# samfsinfo qfsDG01

� If qfstest is not mounted,

# samfsinfo –R qfsDG01

� To switch the metadata server, If qfs is mounted:

#samsharefs –s <destination hostname> qfsDG01

All the configurations are in /etc/opt/SUNWsamfs

1) /etc/opt/SUNWsamfs/mcf

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1) /etc/opt/SUNWsamfs/mcf

2) /etc/opt/SUNWsamfs/samfs.cmd

3) / etc/opt/SUNWsamfs/hosts.<qfs filename>

TSUXDB01 clusternode1-priv 1 0 serverTSUXDB02 clusternode2-priv 2 01) /etc/vfstab

qfsDG01 - /qfsDG01 samfs - no sharedFor mcf and samfs.cmd changes to take effect:# samd config

Different parameter of Sun QFS and UFS.6/etc/opt/SUNWsamfs/samfs.cmd It contains information qfs option, for example

Example on Oracle database filesystem, the following option is the default option

fs = qfsDG01

stripe = 8

forcedirectio

nosam

shared

rdlease = 300

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rdlease = 300

wrlease = 300

aplease = 300

mh_write

Qwrite

Note: If the above is a shared QFS, the word “shared” should be present as

above. If it is a non-shared QFS, remove the word “shared”.

Share with multiple host7Centralized browser-based configuration and management of SAM and QFS on

multiple hosts

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Additional Information.8

� Sun QFS Software

� http://www.sun.com/storagetek/management_software/data_management/qfs)

Sun QFS Administration Guide

� http://wikis.sun.com/display/SAMQFSDocs/Sun+QFS+File+System+Configuration+an

d+Administration+Guide

� SAS World Record Performance

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� SAS World Record Performance

http://www.sas.com/news/preleases/051706/news8.html

SAM-QFS@opensolaris

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+samqfs/WebHome

QFS@Wikipedia,

� http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QFS

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Q & A

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Q & A

THANK YOUNazmul.Khan@Orange-ftgroup.com

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