HP Cluster Test Software manual Contents

Contents
1 Varieties of Cluster Test	5
CT Image	5
CT Image using a network	5
RPM	6
2 The Cluster Test GUI	7
Starting Cluster Test	7
Files generated by Cluster Test	7
Running cluster tests	7
Configuration settings	10
Running tests in a batch	11
Using scripts to run tests	12
Test descriptions	14
Monitoring tests and viewing results	15
The nodes monitoring window	15
The test output window	16
Performance analysis	18
Test report	19
Checking the InfiniBand fabric	20
The Cluster Test toolbar menus	21
3 The accelerator test GUI	22
Starting accelerator tests	22
Files generated by accelerator test	22
Running accelerator tests	23
4 Cluster Test procedure as recommended by HP	26
Additional software	26
Configuring Cluster Test when using RPM	26
Accelerator test procedure	27
The Cluster Test procedure	29
5 The performance monitor	33
The performance monitor utility	33
The xperf utility	35
6 Cluster Test tools	36
Hardware Inventory	36
Firmware Summary	36
Server health check	37
Excluding the head node from tests	38
Disk Scrubber	39
7 Running tests in parallel	41
8 Creating and changing per node files	42
An example per-node directory	42
An example cloned per-node directory	42
9 NFS performance tuning	43
10 Troubleshooting	44
Detecting new hardware	44
Troubleshooting Cluster Test	45
11 Support and other resources	46
Scope of this document	46

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