Using a seperate server for depot storage

[Lee Hundley]

I've run into a situation where I need an Ignite server simply for installing HP-UX (not backup/recovery). Problem is, the only HP-UX machine at my disposal on this job is an old C110 with very limited storage and only the onboard 10BaseT interface.
I want to put the ignite depots onto a seperate (non HP-UX) machine which has plenty of storage and a 100Base-FDX interface. I've tried the make_depots command and the '-d hostname:/path/to/depot' option, but it attempts to create a dir on the C110 named '/var/opt/ignite/depots/Rel_B.11.11/hostname:/path/to/depot'. I added the '-x write_remote_files=true' and it does the same thing.
I've also attempted to NFS mount /var/opt/ignite from the system with plenty of storage, it appears to work, but hangs infinately (overnight) and fails to write any data, this would mean the data would still have to pass through the C110 to get to the client defeating one of the purposes for this setup. Maybe this is a "RTFM" thing, if so, which "FM"?

[Bharat Katkar]

Lee,
There are two options
1. NFS mounting the directories of other server which you have already tried
2. To attach separate storage BOX to your old server c110.

I would prefer the second one for reliability and performance because in previous case which you are already working on C110 will always be having those overheads of serving clients and the process of installation would addup more load on your messaging network. Client in any way has to go thr' c110 since it is configured as Ignite Server.

See if you workout that way.
Regards,

[Steven E. Protter]

You can store your depots on a Windows box. cifcsclient can be used to mount the windows share. Then its just a filesystem.

http://software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B8724AA


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[Lee Hundley]

I've thought about a CIFS share for storage, but the box with the storage runs FreeBSD so I figured NFS would work fine. That also means they're still stuck with 10BaseT transfer rates on installs. I may push them to upgrade the C110 to something better or hang some storage from it and add a 100Base EISA NIC.

Thanks for the advice all!

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,

It is not possible to use a non HP-UX box as depot server, Ignite and SD-UX is HP-UX only.
One problem with the C110 is the limited network bandwitdt which will slow down the installation process. Another is (if I don't remember wrong) that it uses HVD SCSI disks (which is hard to find).