05-29-2015 04:29 AM
Hello Forum,
Solaris 11 MASTER/MEDIA.
NBU - 7.6.0.1
Backup Type : BCV SAN based. ( FS mounted on Media Server and taken on tape).
No. Of Drives per Media server : 8
STU Multiplexing : 3
Media Multiplexing : 3
Media server Memory : 393216 MB
Media Server Swap :
swapfile dev swaplo blocks free
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 285,2 8K 4.0G 4.0G
NUMBER DATA BUFFER : 1048576
SIZE DATA BUFFER : 64
Try to achieve a throughput of 1 GB per stream, unable to get through.
Pls. suggest config changes/settings/parameters to be set to achieve the same.
Thanks in Advance
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05-29-2015 08:22 AM
Swap values around and retry the operation:
NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS = 512
SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS = 262144
Also try running GEN_DATA to see how fast the infrastructure can carry data. A file system may not be the best candidate
Documentation: How to use the GEN_DATA file list directives with NetBackup for UNIX/Linux Clients for Performance Tuning
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH75213
05-29-2015 04:32 AM
Pls. also inform the procedure to create netbackup project in solaris 11 and doing shared memmory changes for faster backups.
05-29-2015 06:05 AM
Have you checked what block size is best for your tape drives ? normally 256KB (262144) or higher for the newer tape drive like LTO. Your number of buffers looks very high to me.
Also check that the storage under the mounted file system can deliver 3 GByte/sec and check what the native speed of the tape drives. For example LTO5 is 140 MB/sec so with mpx of 3 you will get around 46 MB/sec per stream.
There is a technote about suggested kernel settings for Solaris
Think you will max get 8 times the tape drives native speed (Staying with the LTO5 example this is 8*140 MB/sec = 1120 MB/sec or 1 GB/sec)
05-29-2015 08:22 AM
Swap values around and retry the operation:
NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS = 512
SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS = 262144
Also try running GEN_DATA to see how fast the infrastructure can carry data. A file system may not be the best candidate
Documentation: How to use the GEN_DATA file list directives with NetBackup for UNIX/Linux Clients for Performance Tuning
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH75213
05-29-2015 09:23 AM
What speed are you currently getting?
06-01-2015 01:23 AM
Hi All,
Tried various options by swapping the values in NUMBER and SIZE, but the average speed what i get is around 45 Mbps.
This i am testing it on IBM flash storage and LTO6 tape drives.
06-01-2015 01:24 AM
45 mbps is per stream speed i get.
06-01-2015 01:35 AM
To what type of tape drive?
45Mbps is not bad - have you had better than this?
Did you try Nicolai's suggestion:
Also try running GEN_DATA to see how fast the infrastructure can carry data. A file system may not be the best candidate