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ftp transfer issue

zxcv — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 05:14:05 GMT

hi we are having transfer speed issue from two vm's .

Base O.S 11i v3

vmclient O.S 11iv2

we are facing tranfer issue from vmclient machines to remote location when doing ftp from vmclient to non-vm server .

Link sped checked from non-vm to non-vm its fine 5MB/s

But when cheked from VM to non-vm the transfer chokes.

Why is it so ???

Switch side port settings checked they are autonegotiation on .

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Re: ftp transfer issue

Bill Hassell — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:44:54 GMT

We'll need just a bit more information...

5 MBytes/sec is horrible for a 1000BaseT connection, but fairly normal for 100BaseT.

So what speed network cards are you using?

Auto-negotiation should be on *but* what is the duplex? If it is half-duplex, then run lanadmin -g #

where # is the lan card number (ie, 0=lan0, 2=lan2, etc). The second half of the statistics should be all zeros, specfically the collisions and errors. If there are errors, then auto-negotiation has failed. There is nothing you can do to fix the remote end from HP-UX. Talk to your network administrator and get the switch setup to match autonegotiation that is set on the HP-UX side.

>> But when cheked from VM to non-vm the transfer chokes.

I'm not sure what speed = chokes.

Are you saying that no data is transferred at all?

Re: ftp transfer issue

Todd McDaniel_1 — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:42:28 GMT

Can you generate any traffic from vm to non-vm? it sounds like you may have a port issue... granted if by "choke" you mean zero data xfer happening.

otherwise, you may need to explicitly state the speed for the lan card in the conf file.

or i have seen where, if you have more than one lan, that the traffic may be asycnchronous, (ie the traffic is initiated from one lan but the return is coming over a different lan card.

check to be sure which lan is primary on each server and ensure the traffic is coming over that lan.

Regards,

Todd McDaniel

Re: ftp transfer issue

zxcv — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 03:51:19 GMT

Hi Bill,

From that host belwo is the o/p;

root #/tmp >lanadmin -x 0
Speed = 1000 Full-Duplex.
Autonegotiation = On.

root #/tmp >lanadmin -x 1
Speed = 1000 Full-Duplex.
Autonegotiation = On.

root #/tmp >netstat -in
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
lan0:1 1500 10.1.4.0 10.1.4.135 872 0 10 0 0
lan1 1500 20.20.20.0 20.20.20.1 10567729 0 5411912 0 0
lan0:2 1500 10.1.4.0 10.1.4.47 370879584 0 340688232 0 0
lan0 1500 10.1.4.0 10.1.4.132 347056014 0 313747670 1261 0
lo0 4136 127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 90301707 0 90301744 0 0

AS we can seeOerrors still showing errors.

The transfer gets initiated , but suddenly after few MB it halts and does not respond at all.

M trying to ftp 100MB of file , in the same lan from other server the file gets transferred in 20 sec,

whereas from this box sometime s it takes 40 sec , and sometimes goes in loop totally. ( only 20 MB gets transferred )

We are using 1000base t cards.

Hi Todd ,

How to check about 2 lan cards ??

and the trafic flow and reverse ??

Re: ftp transfer issue

zxcv — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 04:01:38 GMT

Hi Todd,

the host having problem is IVM guests O.S hpux 11iv2 , both cluster nodes.

root #/etc/rc.config.d >netstat -rn

Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Interface Pmtu
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 lo0 4136
20.20.20.1 20.20.20.1 UH 0 lan1 4136
10.1.4.47 10.1.4.47 UH 0 lan0:2 4136
10.1.4.132 10.1.4.132 UH 0 lan0 4136
10.1.4.135 10.1.4.135 UH 0 lan0:1 4136
10.1.4.0 10.1.4.132 U 4 lan0 1500
10.1.4.0 10.1.4.47 U 4 lan0:2 1500
10.1.4.0 10.1.4.135 U 4 lan0:1 1500
20.20.20.0 20.20.20.1 U 2 lan1 1500
10.32.32.0 10.1.4.6 UG 0 lan0 0
10.1.1.0 10.1.4.6 UG 0 lan0 0
10.34.32.0 10.1.4.6 UG 0 lan0 0
127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 U 0 lo0 0
default 10.1.4.1 UG 0 lan0 0

root #/etc/rc.config.d >lanscan
Hardware Station Crd Hdw Net-Interface NM MAC HP-DLPI DLPI
Path Address In# State NamePPA ID Type Support Mjr#
0/0/1/0 0x3E6C8B983CC5 0 UP lan0 snap0 1 ETHER Yes 119
0/0/2/0 0xEE87D19D22F8 1 UP lan1 snap1 2 ETHER Yes 119

root #/etc/rc.config.d >netstat -in

Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
lan0:1 1500 10.1.4.0 10.1.4.135 872 0 10 0 0
lan1 1500 20.20.20.0 20.20.20.1 10569979 0 5413066 0 0
lan0:2 1500 10.1.4.0 10.1.4.47 370892542 0 340696269 0 0
lan0 1500 10.1.4.0 10.1.4.132 347104949 0 313795809 1261 0
lo0 4136 127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 90302232 0 90302269 0 0
root #/etc/rc.config.d >

Re: ftp transfer issue

zxcv — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 05:57:22 GMT

Hi my base OS has

dcucbsr1:/tmp # swlist -l product|grep -i avio
AVIO-GVSD B.11.31.1201 HPVM Guest AVIO Storage Software
AVIO-HSSN B.11.31.1111 HPVM Host AVIO LAN Software
AVIO-HVSD B.11.31.1201 HPVM Host AVIO Storage Software
AVIO-IGSSN B.11.31.1111 HPVM Guest AVIO LAN Software

whereas the ivm guest has ;

root #/ >swlist -l product|grep -i avio
AVIO-GVSD B.11.23.0903 HPVM Guest AVIO Storage Software
AVIO-HSSN B.11.23.0712.01 HP AVIO LAN HSSN Host Driver
AVIO-HVSD B.11.23.0712 HPVM Host AVIO Storage Software
AVIO-IGSSN B.11.23.1003 HPVM Guest AVIO LAN Software
PHKL_32478 1.0 Fix for incorrect behavior in pstat_getdisk

can that be a problem ????

Re: ftp transfer issue

zxcv — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 07:25:48 GMT

Hi ,

Below are switch side port details ;

PRISW#sh mac address-table | in 3e6c.8b98.3cc5

1 3e6c.8b98.3cc5 DYNAMIC Gi0/28

PRISW#sh int gi

PRISW#sh int gigabitEthernet 0/28

GigabitEthernet0/28 is up, line protocol is up (connected)

Hardware is Gigabit Ethernet, address is 68bd.ab2b.651c (bia 68bd.ab2b.651c)

MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit/sec, DLY 10 usec,

reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255

Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set

Keepalive set (10 sec)

Full-duplex, 1000Mb/s, media type is 10/100/1000BaseTX

input flow-control is off, output flow-control is unsupported

ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00

Last input never, output 00:00:00, output hang never

Last clearing of "show interface" counters never

Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0

Queueing strategy: fifo

Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)

5 minute input rate 119000 bits/sec, 40 packets/sec

5 minute output rate 53000 bits/sec, 44 packets/sec

836749832 packets input, 936424363239 bytes, 0 no buffer

Received 16472 broadcasts (80 multicasts)

0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles

0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored

0 watchdog, 80 multicast, 0 pause input

0 input packets with dribble condition detected

401724596 packets output, 325290531327 bytes, 0 underruns

0 output errors, 0 collisions, 2 interface resets

0 unknown protocol drops

0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred

0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 0 pause output

0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out

Re: ftp transfer issue

zxcv — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:36:52 GMT

We have two IVM guest O.S

Out of which through one we are able to achieve speed in LAN but not in WAN.

The other IVM guest we are not able to achieve both.

IVM GUEST 1

=========

11iv2 , 10.1.x.x

root #/tmp >netstat -in
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
lan0:1 1500 10.1.4.0 10.1.4.135 890 0 10 0 0
lan1 1500 20.20.20.0 20.20.20.1 10625030 0 5441251 0 0
lan0:2 1500 10.1.4.0 10.1.4.47 371527652 0 340988664 0 0
lan0 1500 10.1.4.0 10.1.4.132 348363498 0 315017774 1871 0
lo0 4136 127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 92167581 0 92167618 0 0

IVM GUEST 2

=========

11iv2 10.1.x.x.

root #/tmp >netstat -in
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
lan0:1 1500 10.1.4.0 10.1.4.134 720 0 0 0 0
lan1 1500 20.20.20.0 20.20.20.2 5441283 0 10625077 0 0
lan0 1500 10.1.4.0 10.1.4.133 9509653 0 12178756 420 0
lo0 4136 127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 1552788 0 1552788 0 0

Re: ftp transfer issue

zxcv — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:16:17 GMT

Hi ,

HP response given below

"Thank you for your update, if it is taking less time in same subnet and taking more time for different subnet ,it shows there is no issue from server side, communicating with different networking devices are involved like routers, Please check with network team and confirm why it is taking more time for different network"

Found the below issues from the logs.

Stream resource pressure.

527% of streams_sqmax has been reached

It seems that there is or there was a STREAM resource pressure

Suspecting this could be a cause for outbound errors. Found that stream patch installed is very low. Install the latest stream patch and its dependencies.

PHNE_42014

Ftpd patch installed in the system is very low. Kindly install the latest ftpd patch and its dependencies.

PHNE_42661

Found HPVM Mandatory patches are not installed in the system. Which is having the fix for all the known issue.

PHSS_43303 - HPVM Core (PK4) - host
Supersedes: PHSS_42189 (PK1), PHSS_42542 (PK2), PHSS_42973 (PK3)

PHSS_43304 - HPVM VMAGENT patch (PK4) - host
PHSS_42974 - HPVM HPVM HPVM-VMSGTK (PK3) - host
Supersedes: PHSS_42544 (PK2)
PHSS_43305 - HPVM VMMIGRATE PATCH (PK4) - host
Supersedes: PHSS_42543 (PK2)
PHSS_42545 - HPVM vmProvider PATCH (11.31) (PK2) - host/guest
PHSS_42546 - HPVM vmProvider PATCH (11.23) (PK2) - guest
PHSS_42547 - HPVM VMCONVERT (PK2) - host

Re: ftp transfer issue

zxcv — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 06:22:27 GMT

Hi ,
Let me explain you the exact problem,

We have 2 rx2800 servers.
They both are in S/G cluster.
My application reqmnt is of 11iv2 and since tukvila processor doesnt support 11iv2 we had no choice but to go with IVM.
Hence we have two Base O.S of hpux 11iv3 and 2 IVM guests of 11iv2

The problem we are facing now is from 1st IVM when we are trying to do ftp transfer within LAN we are facing no issues no matter how many files ( tested 5 files each of 100MB goes in 8 sec to another hosts in same LAN )
But when i try the same number of files to transfer to DR site 1st,2nd file goes in desired speed, the 3rd,4th,5th file simply hangs.gets stalled.

From Second IVM we are neither able to transfer data within LAN nor WAN.

Now HP has recommended some patches ( PHNE_42014 and PHNE_42661 ) which require a reboot.

What am planning is do a cmhaltnode to remove second IVM from cluster.
Take ignite backup of 2nd IVM.
Install patches , take a reboot and then check ftp transfer .

Kindly let me know if am missing something.

Re: ftp transfer issue

zxcv — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:18:07 GMT

Hi guys ,

Any suggestion