4 September 2002 HPSS Installation Guide
Release 4.5, Revision 2
HPSS Operational Planning ..................................................................................42
HPSS Deployment Planning .................................................................................43
2.2 Requirements and Intended Usages for HPSS .......................................................43
Storage System Capacity.......................................................................................43
Required Throughputs........................................................................................... 44
Load Characterization ...........................................................................................44
Usage Trends......................................................................................................... 44
Duplicate File Policy............................................................................................. 44
Charging Policy..................................................................................................... 44
Security..................................................................................................................45
Availability............................................................................................................ 46
2.3 Prerequisite Software Considerations..................................................................... 46
Overview............................................................................................................... 46
Prerequisite Summary for AIX..............................................................................50
Prerequisite Summary for IRIX ............................................................................50
Prerequisite Summary for Solaris..........................................................................51
Prerequisite Summary for Linux and Intel............................................................ 52
2.4 Hardware Considerations.........................................................................................53
Network Considerations........................................................................................ 53
Tape Robots...........................................................................................................54
Tape Devices......................................................................................................... 56
Disk Devices..........................................................................................................57
Special Bid Considerations ...................................................................................57
2.5 HPSS Interface Considerations................................................................................58
Client API..............................................................................................................58
Non-DCE Client API.............................................................................................58
FTP........................................................................................................................ 59
Parallel FTP........................................................................................................... 59
NFS........................................................................................................................59
MPI-IO API........................................................................................................... 60
DFS........................................................................................................................61
XFS........................................................................................................................62
2.6 HPSS Server Considerations.................................................................................... 62
Name Server.......................................................................................................... 62
Bitfile Server .........................................................................................................63
Disk Storage Server...............................................................................................64
Tape Storage Server ..............................................................................................64
Migration/Purge Server......................................................................................... 65
Gatekeeper.............................................................................................................68
Location Server .....................................................................................................70
PVL .......................................................................................................................70
PVR....................................................................................................................... 71
Mover ....................................................................................................................72
Logging Service ....................................................................................................77