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Configuri ng the Sun Fire TM X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault Tim Thomas Sun Microsystems January 2008.
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Introduct ion The Sun Fire TM X4500 Se rver is a four- way server with an AMD Opteron TM processor and 12, 24, 36, or 48 1 TB of storage in 4U (7 inch es) of rack space.
Solutio n Descriptio n Symantec Enterprise Vault Enterprise Vault s oftware is designed to be a long-term, scalable store for unstr uctured information.
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 th e Enterprise Vault s oftware. Each Vault Server archives data from applications, storing t he data as files in Vault Stores.
The SAM file system can be viewed as a cache: All the files a re kept in the cache until i t fills up, at which point the oldest or least rec ently accessed files are released 2 . If a released file is later required, the data is quickly brought back from the archives by the SAM's stager 2 process.
Features and Best Practi ces WORM Storage At this time, the WORM fe atures of the S AM file system are not certified for use with the Enterprise Vaul t software.
Testing t he Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Atta ched Archiv al Storage for the Enterprise Vault/SAM Solution Hardware an d Software • Solaris 10 (8/07) OS • SAMBA 3.
Test Results Test Cases 1 and 2 had all available disks configured in a single ZFS storage po ol. The SAM file system and SAM disk archive were configured from the same pool. Test Case 3 had half of the available disks configured in a pool used by the SAM file system.
Configur ing the Solutio n The process fo r setting up the so lution follows this general plan : 1. Install the Solaris 10 8/07 OS (Update 4) or later with latest patches. 2. Install Sun Stor ageTek Storage A rchive Manager 4.6 wi th latest patches and its File System Manager.
The the following screen is displayed: ----------------------- Next Screen ------------------------- 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.
Press 6 to start the configuratio n. The script reviews the configuration information, as shown in the following screen: ------------- ----------Ne xt Screen---- ------------- -------- Configure Sun Fire X4500 as Network Attached Archival Storage - Release 2.
samfspool0 7.1T 39K 129G 1% /samfspool0 diskvsnpool0 7.1T 39K 7.1T 1% /diskvsnpool0 diskvsnpool0/diskvsn0 7.1T 40K 7.1T 1% /diskvsn0 samfs0 7.0T 57M 7.
Configuring Enterpri se Vault 1. Create a share by mapping the Sun Fire X4500 S erver's network drive to the Vault Server. 2. Navigate to the share and create a new directory to be used as a Vault St ore Partition by the Vault Server.
Managing the Sol ution Sun Fire X4500 Server Use the same tools to manage t he Sun Fire X 4500 Server as you use for any other Solaris sy stem. You can also manage the server using its Integrated Lights Out Management (ILOM) to power the server off and on and t o connect remotely to the system cons ole u sing its ssh interface and a web interface.
Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Se rver as Network A ttached Archival Storage for Symante c Enterprise Vault 14 Figure 6: SAMBA Web-B ased Administration Tool.
Scaling the Solution In some environments, multiple archival storage un its are required due to the rate or volume of data to be archived. Symantec Enterprise Vault scales horizon tally and the partitions of a Vault Sto re can be placed on different network shares.
Appendix: The x4500samconfig Script Download the x4500samconfig script from the follow ing loca tion: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/x4500samconfig_tar_ Test Mode The x4500samconfig script has a test mode to simplify development.
##### 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.
For More Informa tion 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.
Wikis: • Storage Administration Wiki: http://wikis.sun.com/display/StorageAdmin/Home • 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 t o users of Su n products: • Worldwide Developer Events: http://developers.
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