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Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 8 TSS reference architecture with NSS-HA configuration Figure 2. TSS data paths Figure 3 and 4 illustrat

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 9 TSS HSM data flow path Figure 3. TSS archive data flow path Figure 4. CommVault Simpana 9 Data &am

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 10 Key software features of CommVault Simpana 9 in HSM There are two key features of CommVault Simpana 9 in

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 11 User scenarios for tiered storage solution This section describes some key user scenarios that are verif

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 12 In the event of a CommServe disaster, you can perform a Disaster Recovery Backup from the CommCell and t

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 13 If the recall for a file in LTS fails, the Archive agent returns I/O error on failure to recall. If the

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 14 Single large file The second test uses a large number of files in an HSM migration for a larger total

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 15 Single small file The fourth test that was done is actually the inverse of the first test. That is, it

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 16 ML6000 LTO5 Scalability Optimizing and best practices CommVault Simpana 9 Software has many options and

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 17 The following table gives default the chunk size for tape and disk backups and the recommended range of

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page ii This document is for informational purposes only and may contain typographical errors and

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 18 Job Controller Figure 5. You can modify this interval to increase the performance of data movement ope

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 19 Job Management Figure 6. Increasing data transfer throughput from the client You can increase the dat

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 20 4. Enter the number of network agents in the Network Agents box. The default value is 2. You can set th

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 21 Use the following registry key to modify the data pipe buffers: REGISTRY KEY LOCATION SUPPORTED VALUES n

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 22 Appendix A: TSS Recipe Pre-install preparation SELinux If you have SELinux enabled on the client compute

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 23 <directory>/Base/libdb2osse.so.1 -- gen_context (system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0) /opt/<sof

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 24 Please select a setup task you want to perform from the list below: Advance options provide extra setup

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 25 Please specify the client name for this machine. It does not have to be the network host name: you can e

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 26 Do you want to download the latest service pack now? [no] 13. Press Enter to accept the default path.

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 27 make sure you specify sufficient access rights for other users if you are also planning to install Softw

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 1 Contents Executive summary ...

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 28 Please specify hostname of the CommServe below. Make sure the hostname is fully qualified, resolvable by

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 29 Certain Simpana packages can be associated with a virtual IP, or in other words, installed on a "vi

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 30  Configure the index cache either on the shared disk or on a network share accessible to all the nodes

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 31 Installer Figure 9. 3. Select Unix and Linux. Click Next. Installer – Select OS Figure 10. 4. Sele

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 32 Installer – Discover computers Figure 11. 5. Enter the fully qualified domain name of the computer in

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 33 Installer – Enter Host Names Figure 12. 7. Click Next.

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 34 Installer – Select Software Cache Figure 13. 8. Specify User Name and Password of client computer. Cl

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 35 Installer – Enter Account Information Figure 14. 9. Select File Archiver for UNIX Agent. Click Next.

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 36 Installer – Select Package(s) to Install Figure 15. 10. Click Next.

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 37 Installer – Enter settings for software Figure 16. 11. Click Next.

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 2 Creating storage policies manually ...

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 38 Installer – Enter Additional Install Options Figure 17. 12. Select Immediate. Click Next.

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 39 Installer – When To Run The Job Figure 18. 13. Click Finish.

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 40 Installer - Summary Figure 19. Configuring storage resources (example) To configure a disk device (ns

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 41 EZ Operations Wizard Figure 20. 2. Click Disk Library (For backup to disk) and click Next. Select

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 42 Disk Library Configuration Figure 22. 5. Select the Enable Deduplication option. This option saves di

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 43 7. Click Next. Enter Retention Parameters Figure 24. 8. Click Finish.

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 44 Backup Target Summary Figure 25. Configuring a tape device (ML6000 Tape Library) To configure a tape d

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 45 EZ Operations Wizard Figure 26. 2. Select Tape or Optical devices. Click Next. Select Configuration

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 46 Select Library Figure 28. Click Next.

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 47 Enter Backup Retention Period Figure 29. 4. Click Finish.

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 3 Figure 28. Select Library ...

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 48 Summary Figure 30. 5. Click OK. Success Message Figure 31. Configuring storage policies A storage

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 49 CommCell Browser Figure 32. 2. Click on the Storage Device tab.

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 50 Data Storage Policy Figure 33. 3. Click the Data Storage Policy tab. 4. From the Storage Policy list

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 51 Storage Policy drop-down Figure 34. Configuring subclient agent (NSS/NSS-HA nodes) To configure Subcli

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 52 3. Enter Subclient name. 4. Click on the Content tab. Browse to the folder that contains files you wa

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 53 Browsing Content Figure 36. 6. Click the Storage Device tab. Select the Storage Policy from the drop-

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 54 Storage Policy Figure 37. 8. If the subclient is to participate in the HSM network, configure it to c

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 55 Creating storage policies manually To create storage policies manually: 1. Click Create Storage Polic

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 56 Create Storage Policy Wizard Figure 39. Testing install and data migration To test install and data m

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 57 defaultArchiveSet Figure 40. 3. Select Immediate to run the job immediately and then click OK. You ca

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 4 Executive summary This solution guide describes the Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution (TSS). The Dell Tier

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 58 Job Controller Figure 42. 4. Once the archiving or migrate process is completed, files that meet the

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 59 Testing data persistent recovery To test data persistent recovery: 1. Open a Terminal or Console window

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 60 Stubbed files Figure 47. Recovered files Figure 48.

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 61 Appendix B: Tools used to test and generate data sets IOzone The IOzone tool was used to generate data

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 5 Introduction Clusters have become one of the most popular architectures for High Performance Computing (H

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 6 The Dell Tiered Storage Solution is delivered as an all-inclusive storage data management solution and is

Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution Page 7 TSS reference architecture with NSS configuration Figure 1.