Sun Microsystems X4500 User's Manual
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1. TEST MODE samd config TEST MODE sammkfs a 16K sam s0 Create vfstab entry for filesystem sam s0 Backed up var tmp SAMFSTEST vfstabtmp to var tmp SAMFSTEST vfstabtmp 6210 TEST MODE mkdir samfsO Mount samfsoO TEST MODE mount samfsO Configure SAMBA TEST MODE mkdir samfs0 sam s Provide a SAMBA password for user root This DOES NOT need to be your systems root password TEST MODE smbpasswd a root Enable SAMBA Services TEST MODE svcadm disable samba wins swat TEST MODE svcadm enable samba wins swat Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault 16 HHHHH 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 WARNING This procedure destroys your data To reset a Sun Fire X4500 Server so that you can run the x4500samconfig script use the following procedure Unmount all SAM file systems Stop SAM processes Remove etc v stab entries for any SAM file systems Destroy all ZFS pools and ZFS file systems OU es NN Make copies of the following files etc sfw smb conf etc opt SUNWsamfs archiver cmd etc opt SUNWsamfs diskvols conf etc opt SUNWsamfs mcf etc2. G feicinis sheffield a Top Sites gt Product Information Administration Travel IO amp ISV Products Gr M Google Mail Onestop Pages File System Manager a 7 _APPLicaTions version User root Server isv x4500b File System Manager isv x4500b m Manage Servers gt File Browsing amp Recovery y File Systems 8 NFS File Systems Summary isv x4500b File Systems 4 e e em View Policies View Files New Archive Policy Operations v Filter Al tems m 4 i E File System Mount NFS High Water Recovery Point F NFS Shares Point A Description Shared A Disk Usage Total A Mark A Schedule a Archive Administration lt ufs gt I ufs NIE 7 88 GB lt ais gt Isamfspool0 zfs o o O 11 73 TB i M Policies M Storage Recycling ai E a eens O General Setup b s iil Archive Activity x Storage Administration oooO samfs0 Isamfs0 fs archiving L 0 2 50 TB 80 View Policies View Files New Archive Policy Operations K M Tape Libraries y Tape VSNs a Disk Based VSNs M VSN Pools System Administration M System Details M Faults gt Jobs O Scheduled Tasks O Monitoring Console M Email Alerts gt a System Metrics G Registration Done isv x4500b central sun com 6789 a Figure 5 File System Manager
3. SAMBA Use the SAMBA Web based Administration Tool SWAT to manage SAMBA SWAT ships with the Solaris OS and is enabled when the x4500samconf ig script runs Use a browser to connect to the following site http hostname 901 where hostname isthe network name of the Sun Fire X4500 Server Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault 13 File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help lt a v y e fit http isv x4500b central sun com 90 1 shares vie G felicinis sheffield QJ 3 Top Sites Product Informan Administration a Travel 10 amp ISV Products Gr PY Google Mail B puran Paga 7 i a _ Samba Web Administration Tool CJ ea o ra la i y iz 4 GLOBALS SHARES PRINTERS STATUS Share Parameters E Current View Is Basic O Advanced Change View To samis v Base Options Help comment SAMFS Help path samfs0 samfs Security Options Help invalid users Help valid users Help admin users Help read list Help write st a Done e Figure 6 SAMBA Web Based Administration Tool Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault 14 Scaling the Solution In some environments multiple archival storage units are required due to the rate or volume of data to be archived Symantec Enterprise Vault scales horizontally and the partitions of a Vault
4. NOUBWNER Choose a menu option 6 Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault Press 6 to start the configuration The script reviews the configuration information as shown in the following 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 Archive The SAM File System and SAM Disk Archive are in the different Storage Pools SAM File System Name samfsO Will be mounted as samfs0 SAM File System Size 7 0 TB Space not used by the SAM file system is used as SAM Disk Archives SAM Disk Archive Name diskvsnO Will be mounted as diskvsn0 Name of SAMBA Share of SAM File system samfs Do you want to configure the system with these parameters y n y Type y to begin the configuration and type y at the prompt to continue Create ZFS Storage Pool this can take a few minutes Create ZFS Volume for SAM File System Create ZFS File System for SAM Disk Archive diskvsn0 Configure SAM Create releaser cmd file Create stager cmd file Create samfs cmd file Create mcf file Create archiver cmd file Create diskvols conf file Create SAM File System Configuring SAM FS sammkfs samfsO One or more partitions exceeds 1 TB in size sammkfs file system samfsO will not mount on 32 bit Solaris and sammkfs some earlier versions of Solaris Buildin
5. as described in the Best Practices section Most organizations require two copies of every archived file 3 Configure the system to make safety copies of the SAM file system metadata These copies are called Recovery Points and are equivalent to managing the backup catalogs of a conventional backup product The management of Recovery Points is explained in the SAM File System Manager User s Guide Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault 11 Configuring Enterprise Vault 1 Create a share by mapping the Sun Fire X4500 Server s network drive to the Vault Server s My Computer Miel x Fie Edit View Favorites Tools Help A Q Back O P search Folders Address Y My Computer 7 ld eo Name Type Total Size Free Space Comments System Tasks x Hard Disk Drives view system information lt SYSTEM C Local Disk 21 9 GB 13 3 GB 149 Add or remove programs Se EV Indexes F Local Disk 68 3 GB 66 6 GB B Change a setting FSA Volume 1 G Local Disk 68 3 GB 68 1 GB Map Network Drive 40 8 GB 67 2 GB Other Places Windows can help you connect to a shared network folder and assign a drive letter to the connection so that you can g My Network Places access the Folder using My Computer My Documents Specify the drive letter for the connection and the Folder y Control Panel that you want to connect to Drive Ix Details Folder J imyx
6. E E E 13 NA E E E A EEE E N E E a ATE E TE A ei PES 13 Scaling the Solution ccoo aatis EREDA EEOSE SE EEE eNA ENIPE R eSEE Ciona cada acid 15 Appendix The x4500samconfig SCript ccccseccseccssccesecescccncccectenecenceeeccencceuseeeceeneceneceaseeeeeeseceneceaeeeeeeeeeeenes 16 T St MOG iria A Arnet 16 Resetting a Configured Sun Fire X4500 S rver ccccssssscccsseeecccssecccencseeceesceccseuececceasecceeusecessuececeeeeecetseneceseueeeeeenens 17 For More Information aes nae Sob A ot desks a ecladetec mbes re et 18 Introduction The Sun Fire X4500 Server is a four way server with an AMD Opteron processor and 12 24 36 or 48 TB of storage in 4U 7 inches 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 about 30 to 50 in power at about 1 2 to 1 3 of the cost Best of all bringing data close to the CPU and processing engine increases the data throughput of the system to the network The Sun Fire X4500 Server running the Solaris 10 Operating System Sun StorageTek Storage Archive Manager and Solaris ZFS delivers a high density high capacity high performance low cost Network Attached Archival Storage system Figure 1 The Sun Fire X4500 Server This document describes a Network Attached Archival Storage solution optimized for Symantec Enterprise Vault and based
7. Store can be placed on different network shares Likewise the Sun Fire X4500 Server Network Attached Archival Storage solution can also be scaled horizontally by adding more servers It is a best practice to configure SAM to make a second copy of the archived data to an external device such as a tape library However in large scale environments it can become complex and cost prohibitive to have each Sun Fire X4500 Server attached to a tape library It might be simpler to consider a tape less solution using the NFS based disk archives supported with Storage Archive Manager Configure a second tier of one or more Sun Fire X4500 Servers as NFS servers to act as a SAM disk archives as shown Figure 7 Archival z AN Storage Copy 1 Sun Fire X4500 as NAS Archival Storage 1 SAM File System Copy 1 in Local ZFS Disk Archive Copy 2 on External NFS Archive Figure 7 Scaling the Solution LAN ON Sun Fire X4500 as NAS Archival Storage N SAM File System Copy 1 in Local ZFS Disk Archive Copy 2 on External NFS Archive Second es EN Tier Copy 2 Sun Fire X4500 as External Disk Archive NFS Server ZFS RAID Z SAM not required Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault 15 Appendix The x4500samconf ig Script Download the x4500samconf ig script from the following location http www sun com bigadmin jsp descFile jsp url descAll x4500samconfig
8. information warehouse for personal and corporate data which can then be mined as a knowledge resource using the Enterprise Vault index and search technology Its business accelerators such as Enterprise Vault Compliance and Discovery Accelerators offer solutions for regulatory surveillance and legal discovery e Operational Excellence The Enterprise Vault software can increase the operational excellence of any primary application in for example the application s service level agreement SLA for backup Many organizations find that because applications such as Microsoft Exchange grow so large they are no longer able to meet the SLA for restore operations By using the Enterprise Vault software to move a majority of data out of the Microsoft Exchange stores these SLAs can be planned and achieved In addition end users can service their own requests for old and lost information without consuming help desk or administration resources Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault 2 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 the Enterprise Vault software Application Servers LAN Servers LAN Archival Storage Figure 2 Symantec Enterprise Vault Site Each Vault Server archives data from applications storing
9. on the Sun Fire X4500 Server For anyone wishing to deploy this solution a configuration script for this solution should allow a competent person to configure a Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage in just a few minutes See the For More Information section for a list of background reading about the hardware and software used to build this solution 1 The 36 and 48 TB capacities are scheduled to be available when 750 GB and 1 TB disks are supported Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault 1 Solution Description Symantec Enterprise Vault Enterprise Vault software is designed to be a long term scalable store for unstructured information Now in its seventh version the Enterprise Vault software delivers not only a scalable and robust storage system but also provides a wide choice of implementation scenarios addressing storage cost reduction and compliance driven retention The Enterprise Vault software can be populated by multiple information sources Microsoft Exchange Lotus Domino Microsoft SharePoint File Systems or customer applications and through its business accelerators provides seamless interaction for both organization and user exploitation of archived information The situations that Enterprise Vault is commonly employed to solve include e Application Storage Management A major use of the Enterprise Vault software is to act as a
10. the data as files in Vault Stores A Vault Store is a logical storage object managed from within the Enterprise Vault software Each Vault Store is made of partitions and each partition is a directory of archival storage Archival storage can be local disks in the Vault Server or direct or SAN attached storage arrays but a typical choice is some kind of Network Attached Storage NAS NAS is popular because of the ease of connectivity from multiple Vault Servers Enterprise Vault scales horizontally so cost effective shared storage is an important part of a solution Only archived data is stored on the NAS device system appliance The Database Server stores all its data on local disks or on direct or SAN attached storage arrays The Vault Servers store their indexes and other metadata on local disks or on direct or SAN attached storage arrays as well Another efficiency of the Enterprise Vault software is that it compresses data before storing it and its Single Instance Storage SIS feature uses file level de duplication technology to stop multiple copies of the same content from being stored in a Vault Store partition Sun StorageTek Archive Manager and Enterprise Vault Storage Archive Manager SAM is a 64 bit policy driven archiving file system The SAM s archiver process copies files from the file system to disk and or tape archives and its releaser process frees the space as required These actions are based on the policies set by th
11. workload Can we use RAID Z If the write intensive workload did not suit a RAID Z configuration the alternative RAID 1 would reduce the usable capacity The three configurations in Table 1 were stress tested on the equipment shown in Figure 3 Case Number of ZFS Storage Pools ZFS Storage Pool Configuration 1 22 x RAID 1 1 1 stripes and two hot spares 1 8 x RAID Z 5 1 stripes and six hot spares 2 2 x 4x RAID Z 5 1 stripes and three hot spares Table 1 Tested Storage Configurations Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault LAN Database Server Vault Server Vault Server e Sun Fire V40z Sun Fire V40z e Sun Fire X4100 22X2 4GHzAMD Opteron 2 x 2 4 GHz AMD Opteron 4 x 2 4 GHz DualCore 850 850 AMD Opteron 2216 cpu Archival Storage e2 GB Memory e6 GB Memory 4GB Memory Sun Fire X S e Windows Server 2003 EE Windows Server 2003 R2 Windows Server 2003 R2 un Fire A4500 3 erver e SQL Server SP2 SP2 e2 x DualCore AMD 285 CF a 16 GB Memory Enterprise Vault 7 0 SP2 Enterprise Vault 7 0 SP2 18 x 500 GB SATA Disks e Solaris 10 Update 4 Build 1 e SAMBA 3 0 25a SAM 4 6 Figure 3 Enterprise Vault and Sun Fire X4500 Server Test Environment Test Results Test Cases 1 and 2 had all available disks configured in a single ZFS storage pool The SAM file system and SAM disk archive were configured from the same poo
12. 4500 samFs y Browse My Computer Example server share diane Reconnect at logon 345 GB Connect using a different user name Sign up for online storage or connect to a network server Figure 4 Map Share to Vault Server 2 Navigate to the share and create a new directory to be used as a Vault Store Partition by the Vault Server 3 Use the Vault Administration Console to configure the partition as part of a new Vault Store or as a new partition for an existing Vault Store Add the share as storage type Network Share 4 Complete the configuration of the Vault Store Partition as normal for the Enterprise Vault site Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault 12 Managing the Solution Sun Fire X4500 Server Use the same tools to manage the Sun Fire X4500 Server as you use for any other Solaris system You can also manage the server using its Integrated Lights Out Management ILOM to power the server off and on and to connect remotely to the system console using its ssh interface and a web interface SAM Use File System Manager to manage the SAM environment by using a browser to connect to the following site https hostname 6789 where hostname is the network name of the Sun Fire X4500 Server The main page is shown in Figure 5 File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help E aai e ft https isv x4500b central sun com 6789 samafsui uti FrameFormat Sir D
13. Support Sun Fire X4500 Server Administration WET 5060 Sun StorageTek Storage Archive Manager and Sun StorageTek QFS 4 X PK NWS 4510 Register your Sun gear https sunconnection sun com inventory Services http www sun com services SunSolve Online http sunsolve sun com Sun StorageTek Archive Manager support matrix Contact your Sun or Sun Partner representative Hardware and Storage Forums http forum java sun com index jspa tab hardware Documentation Sun StorageTek Archive Manager 4 6 Documentation http docs sun com app docs coll sam4 6 l en File System Manager User s Guide http docs pdf sun com 819 7939 10 819 7939 10 pdf Sun Fire X4500 Server Release and Integrated Lights Out Manager ILOM Documentation Sun Fire X4500 Server Maintenance and Operations Documentation Sun Fire X4500 Server Installation Documentation Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault 18 Wikis e Storage Administration Wiki http wikis sun com display StorageAdmin Home e 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 to users of Sun products e Worldwide Developer Events http developers sun com events Current Events http www sun com events index jsp Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage
14. e solution follows this general plan 1 Install the Solaris 10 8 07 OS Update 4 or later with latest patches Install Sun StorageTek Storage Archive Manager 4 6 with latest patches and its File System Manager Download the x4500samconf ig script from the site listed in the Appendix and unpack it Configure Storage Archive Manager with additional requirements 2 3 4 Run the x4500samconfig script to create the default configuration based on Test Case 3 5 6 Configure Enterprise Vault The x4500samconfig script creates a configuration with the following characteristics The maximum size of the SAM file system is half of the available storage in the Sun Fire X4500 Server This allows one full copy of the file system to be stored in the SAM disk archive e The SAM archiving policy is to continuously scan with an archive age of 8 hours and an interval of 10 minutes One copy of every file is made to the SAM disk archive ZFS storage pools are created with hot spare disks The script and the configuration have the following limitations The script only runs on a Sun Fire X4500 Server that has not been configured The only supported disk size is 500 GB ASAM file system that is smaller than the default size can affect archiving performance because there are fewer disks used for the ZFS Volume See the Appendix for more about the x4500samconf ig script including how it can be used in test mode and how to reset a configured serve
15. e user for the file system 2 For an overview of how Storage Archive Ma nager works see http blogs sun com timthomas entry what_does sun storagetek storagel Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault 3 The SAM file system can be viewed as a cache All the files are kept in the cache until it fills up at which point the oldest or least recently accessed files are released If a released file is later required the data is quickly brought back from the archives by the SAM s stager process These actions are transparent to applications with the benefit that the contents of the file system are managed so that it should never overflow However SAM can be configured so that a file is never released from the cache The benefits of using Storage Archive Manager with Enterprise Vault include 3 e Tiered Storage Customers looking for an email archiving solution are often interested in using tiered storage as well The customer s first objective is to relieve congestion on the email servers and related storage subsystems by migrating content from the primary email storage to cheaper archival storage but in time the archival storage itself becomes congested The ability of Storage Archive Manager to seamlessly migrate data from its Vault Stores to other storage tiers resolves this problem Transparent Backup of Archived Data SAM can make at least one and up to four copie
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17. g samfsO will destroy the contents of devices dev zvol dsk samfspool0 samfsOvol Do you wish to continue y Nly Create vfstab entry for filesystem sam s0 Backed up etc vfstab to etc vfstab 18893 Mount sam fs0 Configure SAMBA Provide a SAMBA password for user root This DOES NOT need to be your systems root password New SMB password XXXXXXXX Retype new SMB password XXXXXXXX Enable SAMBA Services System Configuration is Complete The system is ready to use For information on managing SAM and SAMBA please consult the README file Press Return to exit the script Verify that the script created two storage pools a SAM and a ZFS file system as in the following example root df hl Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on dev md dsk d0 7 9G 4 3G 3 5G 56 Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault 10 samfspool0 7 1T 39K diskvsnpool0 7 1T 39K diskvsnpool0 diskvsn0 7 1T 40K sam s0 7 OT 57M Configuring Storage Archive Manager 1296 7 1T 7 1T 7 OT 1 1 1 1 samfspool0 diskvsnpool0 diskvsn0 samfsoO 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 Use File System Manager to configure the Storage Archive Manager 1 Customize the archiving policies to suit local requirements 2 Create a second copy of every archived file
18. he U S and other countries Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems Inc The OPEN LOOK and Sun s Graphical User Interface was developed by Sun Microsystems Inc for its users and licensees Sun acknowledges the pioneering efforts of Xerox in researching and developing the concept of visual or graphical user interfaces for the computer industry Sun holds a non exclusive license from Xerox to the Xerox Graphical User Interface which license also covers Sun s licensees who implement OPEN LOOK GUIs and otherwise comply with Sun s written license agreements RESTRICTED RIGHTS Use duplication or disclosure by the U S Government is subject to restrictions of FAR 52 227 14 g 2 6 87 and FAR 52 227 1987 or DFAR 252 227 7015 b 6 95 and DFAR 227 7202 3 a DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED OAS ISO AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED CONDITIONS REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON INFRINGEMENT ARE DISCLAIMED EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT SUCH DISCLAIMERS HELD TO BE LEGALLY INVALID Sun Microsystems Inc Table of Contents A A A tae en EE 1 Solution DeScriPtiON iii AA A AA aac veh A aa 2 Symantec Enterprise Va Ult a dee wsensdeu E TR EE ARAA 2 Topology otan Enterprise Vault Mei dt ia iii 3 Sun StorageTek Archive Manager and Enterprise Vault oonnnnncnnnnnnnnonononanannnnnnnnnnnonononananonnnnnnnnn nono nanonnncnnn
19. icrosystems Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault Tim Thomas Sun Microsystems January 2008 2008 Sun Microsystems Inc 4150 Network Circle Santa Clara CA 95054 USA All rights reserved This product or document is protected by copyright and distributed under licenses restricting its use copying distribution and decompilation No part of this product or document may be reproduced in any form by any means without prior written authorization of Sun and its licensors if any Third party software including font technology is copyrighted and licensed from Sun suppliers Parts of the product may be derived from Berkeley BSD appliances licensed from the University of California Sun Sun Microsystems Solaris Sun Fire Sun StorageTek and the Sun logo are trademarks registered trademarks or service marks of Sun Microsystems Inc in the U S and other countries UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries exclusively licensed through X Open Company Ltd Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries Microsoft product screen shots reprinted with permission from Microsoft Corporation AMD and Opteron are trademarks or registered trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International Inc in t
20. l 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 as a SAM disk archive Table 2 shows the results of the stress tests Test Case Average Archiving Rate Items Hour 1 92348 2 90332 3 90070 Table 2 Results of Performance Tests The stress tests gave the following results The performance difference between RAID 1 and RAID Z is marginal Having half the number of disks available was only slightly slower than having all the disks available Closer analysis showed that the Sun Fire X4500 Server s disks had to perform approximately 2 5 times more IOPs in the RAID Z cases but were able to do so without affecting the application s performance Based on these findings the design dilemmas are resolved RAID Z is a suitable configuration Two storage pools can handle the workload The recommended configuration is based on Test Case 3 because it offers excellent performance and the benefit of isolating the SAM file system from the SAM disk archive 5 The Sun Fire X4100 finished two hours before the Sun Fire v40z This figure is the sum of the average archiving rates of both servers when they were archiving data at the same time Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault 7 Configuring the Solution The process for setting up th
21. n online archive for information that is moved from primary storage according to customer defined policies This enables the store size to be controlled and allows applications to focus on their strengths the handling of incoming information and accessing of recent and frequently accessed items e Retention and Discovery for Compliance Many organizations are required to keep all electronic information for long periods of time This typically includes email network shares from NAS appliances and Microsoft Windows based file servers Microsoft SharePoint content and instant messages The Enterprise Vault software can be used with the Microsoft Exchange journal feature to act as a secure repository for items that need to be retained for defined periods of time for legal or regulatory reasons e Upgrade Migration and Consolidation Reducing storage requirements for Microsoft Exchange Lotus Domino or file servers means that more users can be housed or supported on each server thus requiring fewer servers For example controlling mailbox size improves Microsoft Exchange system consolidation In addition the Enterprise Vault software can also be used to streamline a migration or upgrade by first slimming down the primary store and housing the bulk of the data during the process The import and elimination of PST files is the strongest example of a migration and consolidation exercise e Knowledge Exploitation The Enterprise Vault software acts as an
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23. opt SUNWsamfs releaser cmd etc opt SUNWsamfs samfs cmd etc opt SUNWsamfs stager cmd 6 Remove the original files You can now run the x4500samconfig script Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault 17 For More Information 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 Archive Manager Do http blogs sun com timthomas entry what_does sun storagetek storagel About Sun Fire X4500 Server Sun Fire X4500 Server page http www sun com servers x64 x4500 Tape support matrix for Sun Fire X4500 Server http www sun com servers x64 x4500 storage options jsp TapeBackup About Symantec Enterprise Vault Symantec Enterprise Vault page http www symantec com enterprise products overview jsp pcid 1018 amp pvid 322 1 Sun and Symantec Enterprise Vault http www sun com third party global symantec feature jsp intcmp hp2007nov06 symantec read Downloads Sun StorageTek Archive Manager http www sun com download index jsp cat Systems 20Administration amp tab 3 amp subcat Sto rage 20Management Sun Fire X4500 Server http www sun com servers x64 x4500 downloads jsp Sun training courses at http www sun com training
24. r Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server Become the root user and then run the script Enter the options indicated in bold text root x4500samconfig Configure Sun Fire X4500 as Network Attached Archival Storage Release 2 1 Main Menu Select Items 1 to 5 To Change Them and 6 To Configure The System Storage Profile RAID Z Pool for SAM FS RAID Z Pool for Disk Archive Name of SAM File System will be samfs0O Size of SAM File System will be 7 0 TB Name of SAM Disk Archive will be diskvsno Name of SAMBA Share for SAM File System will be samfs Configure System with These Settings Exit NOoOUBWNE Choose a menu option 1 The x4500samconfig script inspects the system and generates unique names for the storage pool s SAM file system and SAM disk archive Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault 8 The the following screen is displayed 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 and then displays the following screen A A RA AS Next SCOreen Configure Sun Fire X4500 as Network Attached Archival Storage Release 2 1 Main Menu Select Items 1 to 5 To Change Them and 6 To Configure The System Storage Profile RAID Z Pool for SAM FS RAID Z Pool fo
25. r Disk Archive Name of SAM File System will be samfs0O Size of SAM File System will be 7 0 TB Name of SAM Disk Archive will be diskvsn0O Name of SAMBA Share for SAM File System will be samfs Configure System with These Settings Exit NOUBWNER Choose a menu option 3 The following screen displays the options for changing the size of the file system os SGN MS RAMI al a e Next Screen Configure Sun Fire X4500 as Network Attached Archival Storage Release 2 1 Set Size of SAM File System Currently 7 0 TB 1 5 0 TB 2 7 0 TB 3 Return To Main Menu Choose a menu option 3 The script allows SAM to use only approximately 50 of the usable storage on the system The remaining storage is for the SAM disk archive If you choose the option for a SAM file system that is smaller than the default size the ZFS storage pool used for the ZFS Volume will have fewer disks which might affect archiving performance Press 3 to accept the default size and return to the main menu Configure Sun Fire X4500 as Network Attached Archival Storage Release 2 1 Main Menu Select Items 1 to 5 To Change Them and 6 To Configure The System Storage Profile RAID Z Pool for SAM FS RAID Z Pool for Disk Archive Name of SAM File System will be sam s0 Size of SAM File System will be 7 0 TB Name of SAM Disk Archive will be diskvsno Name of SAMBA Share for SAM File System will be samfs Configure System with These Settings Exit
26. s freely available under the GNU General Public License and can be downloaded from http www samba org Samba is packaged with Solaris 10 OS Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault 5 Testing the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for the Enterprise Vault SAM Solution Hardware and 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 Server configured with 48 x 500 GB SATA II disks Performance Tests Extensive testing took place in Sun Microsystems Labs in Colorado to determine the best way to configure a Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Enterprise Vault and SAM The high level design had a single SAM file system shared with Enterprise Vault via SAMBA making Copy 1 to a local SAM disk archive However there were two dilemmas One ZFS Storage Pool or Two With one storage pool all disks are available to support the write intensive workload but the data in the SAM file system and the copy in the SAM disk archive would be in the same storage pool and potentially on the same disks Even with RAID protection and hot spare disks some organizations could not accept this risk With two storage pools the SAM file system and SAM disk archive are in different storage pools and so on different disks This is secure but fewer disks are available for the
27. s of the data archived by the Enterprise Vault software These copies can be made to local or remote tape disk tape archives or both Archiving policies can be customized to suit a customer s business requirements Continuous Backup and Quick Restore Backing up and restoring file systems containing large numbers of files can be a long process using traditional backup software In a SAM solution the file system backs itself up continuously to disk archives tape archives or both without the requirement for a backup window Also a SAM file system can be brought back online very quickly following a hardware failure or when the file system is being migrated to another platform because only the metadata of the SAM file system needs to be restored the files themselves can all be left in the archives It is still necessary to size a solution according to the amount of data that will be archived and the customer s retention policies This information is gathered as part of the Enterprise Vault sales process Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault 4 Features and Best Practices WORM Storage At this time the WORM features of the SAM file system are not certified for use with the Enterprise Vault software SAMBA Support Because Storage Archive Manager is based on the Solaris OS for SPARC and x64 platforms SAMBA software which is required to make a SAM file system available to server
28. s running Microsoft Windows SAMBA ships as standard with the Solaris OS and is supported by Sun Microsystems A SAM file system accessed via SAMBA is certified with Enterprise Vault Enterprise Vault stores ACL and ownership related information about the archived data in its database so SAMBA does not need to be integrated with the Windows Domain or with Active Directory Services SAM Archiving Policies To allow Enterprise Vault users to browse and search their email archives one of the following SAM archiving policies must be implemented e Option 1 If the first available SAM copy of a file is on tape the file must not be released because the latency of retrieving a file from tape causes issues with end user tools e Option 2 If the first available SAM copy of a file is in a SAM disk based archive the file can be released This solution implements Option 2 Making Copy 2 It is strongly recommended that Storage Archive Manager is configured to make a second copy of the archived data many organizations mandate that two copies of every archived file must be made Possible targets for Copy 2 are e An external tape device tape library e Adisk archive accessed via NFS This could be another Sun Fire X4500 Server Aremote instance of Storage Archive Manager which can make a second copy to a tape library or disk archive 4 Samba is an Open Source Freeware suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB CIFS clients Samba i
29. tar_ Test Mode The x4500samconfig script has a test mode to simplify development The test mode gives you the following advantages You can run the script on any server running the Solaris OS and as any user The SAM packages are not required Most of the safety checks are switched on The script can be run on a previously configured system No changes are made to the system or its files when you select options All configuration files are created or modified but they are all installed in var tmp SAMFSTEST All commands are echoed to the console so that you can see how the script works To run the script in test mode type the following x4500samconfig samfstest 4 6 A banner is displayed to announce that the script is running in test mode Then the script continues as normal When you configure the server the following additions are made to the standard output Create ZFS Storage Pool this can take a few minutes TEST MODE zfspoolprofiles 2praidz makepools sh Create ZFS Volume for SAM File System TEST MODE zfs create V 7 0TB b 16KB samfspool0 samfsOvol Create ZFS File System for SAM Disk Archive diskvsn0 TEST MODE zfs create o mountpoint diskvsn0 samfspool0 diskvsn0 TEST MODE mkdir diskvsn0 diskvsn Configure SAM Create releaser cmd file Create stager cmd file Create samfs cmd file Create mcf file Create archiver cmd file Create diskvols conf file Create SAM File System
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