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тАО04-12-2007 05:26 PM
тАО04-12-2007 05:26 PM
Does HSJ Disks share CI paths (Two Paths)
How do I check which path the disk is being served and the traffic
Thanks
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тАО04-13-2007 12:22 AM
тАО04-13-2007 12:22 AM
Re: Does HSJ Disks share CI paths (Two Paths)
You can use "SET PREFERRED" to make sure the load is balanced.
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/731FINAL/4477/4477pro_009.html
Details or restrictions may exist depending on the exact OpenVMS version being used, the systems and adapters.
If the CI performance is at all a concern to you, then please consider alternative, more recent (from this century), storage solutions. Per disk space has increased 100x since the CI devices, Disk access times have improved 2x - 4x, Disk transfer times have increase 10x.
Hope this helps some,
Hein van den Heuvel (at gmail dot com)
HvdH Performance Consulting
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тАО04-16-2007 10:16 AM
тАО04-16-2007 10:16 AM
Re: Does HSJ Disks share CI paths (Two Paths)
$SH DEV D/FULL should tell you the primary path/controller
Regards
Rob
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тАО04-16-2007 01:16 PM
тАО04-16-2007 01:16 PM
Re: Does HSJ Disks share CI paths (Two Paths)
Show dev/full tells info about primary and secondary controllers not the CI path. I am intrested in knowing the CI path being used for disk serving for a perticular disk and the traffic count. Is it possible to get this info?
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Disk $5$DUA800: (HSJ03), device type MSCP served SCSI disk, is online, mounted,
file-oriented device, shareable, served to cluster via MSCP Server, error
logging is enabled.
Error count 0 Operations completed 1667619
Owner process "" Owner UIC [SYSTEM]
Owner process ID 00000000 Dev Prot S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G:R,W
Reference count 1 Default buffer size 512
Current preferred CPU Id 1 Fastpath 1
Total blocks 17768677 Sectors per track 64
Total cylinders 34705 Tracks per cylinder 8
Host name "HSJ03" Host type, avail HSJ5, yes
Alternate host name "HSJ04" Alt. type, avail HSJ5, yes
Allocation class 5
Volume label "SYSTOOLS" Relative volume number 0
Cluster size 18 Transaction count 1
Free blocks 5300406 Maximum files allowed 467596
Extend quantity 5 Mount count 2
Mount status System Cache name "_DSA0:XQPCACHE"
Extent cache size 64 Maximum blocks in extent cache 530040
File ID cache size 64 Blocks in extent cache 386496
Quota cache size 0 Maximum buffers in FCP cache 4318
Volume owner UIC [SYSTEM] Vol Prot S:RWCD,O:RWCD,G:RWCD,W:RWCD
Volume Status: ODS-2, subject to mount verification, file high-water marking,
write-back caching enabled.
Volume is also mounted on SMP01.
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тАО04-16-2007 01:30 PM
тАО04-16-2007 01:30 PM
Re: Does HSJ Disks share CI paths (Two Paths)
or
$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$GETDVI("$1$DUA0:","ALT_HOST_NAME")
If you want to check traffic on the controller, run VTDPY.
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тАО04-16-2007 07:10 PM
тАО04-16-2007 07:10 PM
Re: Does HSJ Disks share CI paths (Two Paths)
Without questioning the validity of your request could I ask how you are planning to use the information about which wire(s) out of the four is carrying traffic and for more details about your configuration?
Regards
Rob
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тАО04-16-2007 09:31 PM
тАО04-16-2007 09:31 PM
Re: Does HSJ Disks share CI paths (Two Paths)
$SMP02/IT,E14249> sho dev pn/full
Device PNA0:, device type CIPCA, is online, shareable, error logging is enabled.
Error count 4 Operations completed 0
Owner process "" Owner UIC [SYSTEM]
Owner process ID 00000000 Dev Prot S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G,W
Reference count 0 Default buffer size 0
Current preferred CPU Id 1 Fastpath 1
Current Interrupt CPU Id 1
Device PNB0:, device type CIPCA, is online, shareable, error logging is enabled.
Error count 3 Operations completed 0
Owner process "" Owner UIC [SYSTEM]
Owner process ID 00000000 Dev Prot S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G,W
Reference count 0 Default buffer size 0
Current preferred CPU Id 0 Fastpath 1
Current Interrupt CPU Id 0
CI throuput is 70Mbps(Mega bits /sec) single path. So if devices are served on single path I should not expect data throughput of more than 6-7 MBPS. If disks are load balanced between the two CI paths I can expect data throuput 140(70 x 2 CI paths)
I generated ECP(Enterprise capacity planner) report. report shows that all the disks are being served through one CI path only. That's why wanted to know How CI works.
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тАО04-16-2007 11:22 PM
тАО04-16-2007 11:22 PM
Re: Does HSJ Disks share CI paths (Two Paths)
Agreed: Two physical cards seen by VMS as PNA and PNB.
As you say, CI throughput per path is 70Mbps(Mega bits /sec). CIPCA is capable of running dual path so you should see a theoretical max of 140 Mb/s if it is working properly.
If all the traffic is showing as going down one path then either ECP is mistaken or the hardware has a problem.
So we have some more questions ... ( I don't actually have a CI based machine here so I'm running from memory...sorry)
If a path has failed then in the error log and on the console, you should have seen messages like:
[...] change, Path #0. went from GOOD to BAD
( the paths on each card are variously referred to as 0 and 1 or A and B ).
Are you able to check for these messages like these?
Have you checked the amber error indicator LED for problems indicated on the actual cards?
$SHOW CLUS/CONT
should show both paths ( path A and path B ) on both cards as | A - B | if they are both active. If either letter is missing, the correspoonding path is inactive. Are you able to verify that VMS sees both paths as active ?
Hope this might lead us somewhere. Sorry to be asking so many questions.
Regards
Rob
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тАО04-17-2007 01:40 AM
тАО04-17-2007 01:40 AM
Re: Does HSJ Disks share CI paths (Two Paths)
ADD CIRCUIT/ALL will display activities on the various adapters.
ADD PORT/ALL and ADD CONNECTION/ALL may provide additional interesting information.
Robert
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тАО04-17-2007 12:19 PM
тАО04-17-2007 12:19 PM
Re: Does HSJ Disks share CI paths (Two Paths)
Thanks for all your inputs, Don't feel sorry for anything. you are trying to help me with my query and to do so you need to understand the it thoroughly.
My both the Ci ciruit are good, Had checked before in CLUster and SDA utility I can see both the CI circuit as good, But my question here is how do I see both the ciruit are being working in Load sharng mode. How do I see Traffic counters on CI circuits to confirm both are taking part into disk data comunication.
I really appreciate all your dedication and support.
regards