Re: Tuning P655 for NFS only

From: Damir Delija (damir.delija@PBZ.HR)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 04:37:10 EDT


>
>
> Going to put into production two P655 running AIX 5.1 ML03. Both are
> attached to a FAStT500 and to an EMC Clariion CX600.
>

Maybe ML04 ?
We had some problems on our EMC boxes (reservations speed etc)
which are apparently solved with this ML

> The sole purpose of these two servers is to server
> filesystems to hundreds
> of UNIX systems. Many of these NFS clients will be AIX desktops, but
> others will be large, non-IBM FEA servers pushing and pulling
> gigs of data.
>
> Also, we have installed FastConnect on these two P655 in
> hopes of serving
> the same data to PC's too. (Anyone with FastConnect
> experience, love to
> hear from you too.)
>
> Anyway, can someone point me to what systems settings I want
> to adjust to
> get the absolute best NFS performance out of these two
> systems? There will
> be no logging in to these boxes; no running programs; No
> X..... Just NFS
> (and FastConect).
>
> By the way, these systems will be in a HA setting to fail to
> each other if
> need be. Each has a single gigabit copper ethernet
> connection. They also
> have two 10/100 Mbit ports, but one will be for heartbeat
> between them and
> the other is being used as a private network for
> communication with the
> P610 HWS (Hardware WorkStation) and the FAStT500. If that
> is not optimal,
> let me know that too.
>
> Thanks a bunch,
>
> Christopher M. Baker
> Senior Technical Support Analyst
> DSE/TCO
> Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
>
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