ADSM-L

Re: Size of Sites?

1998-04-17 12:42:06
Subject: Re: Size of Sites?
From: "Stidd, Sharon" <SStidd AT ALLDATA DOT NET>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 12:42:06 -0400
what are the published trx rates for FDDI (in Mb)? The TR, I assume, is
16Mb.
Sharon Stidd

Client/Server Administrator
Alliance Data Systems
800 Tech Center Drive
Gahanna OH 43230
614/729-4340
Fax 614/729-4499

> ----------
> From:         Aristotle Pokas[SMTP:Aristotle_Pokas AT CPR DOT CA]
> Sent:         Friday, April 17, 1998 10:53 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Size of Sites?
>
> On our FDDI network we can usually get about 6GB / Hour (on an
> unloaded
> network) to one DLT7000 Drive on an RS/6000 R50 with 2 processors and
> 512
> MB ram (though we never have actually seen a situation where we
> stressed
> the load on any of our ADSM servers).   We use a mixed FDDI / TR
> environment which introduces a bit more network overhead for the
> server and
> we max our network quite a bit during peak backup hours.  To give you
> an
> idea of throughput I've attached portions of our daily summary report:
>
> Please note:
>
> The 2 Clients on FDDI have transfer rates much higher than the others
> on
> TR.  Time statistics are in seconds. On FDDI we use no compression, on
> TR
> we use compression. We have 1 FDDI interface and 1 TR interface. 95%
> of our
> backups go directly to 20 GB of disk pools and then it is migrated to
> tape.
> We use Server V2.1.0.15 with a STK2710 Library with 6 DLT 7000 Drives
> dedicated to 1 SCSI channel each.  There is about 1.5 TB of data
> behind
> this ADSM server.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Aristotle Pokas
> Technical Architecture
> Canadian Pacific Railway
>
> Aristotle_Pokas AT cpr DOT ca
>
>  --- ADSM Summary Report
> --------------------------------------------------
> ----
>
>                         daily SERVER Statistics SAHARA
>
>  --- Activity Statistics
> --------------------------------------------------
> ----
>
>       Total-MB-Transfered:       114766.2
>       Total-GB-Transfered:          112.1
>
>                Total-Time:        70784.0
>            Wait-Time-Idle:         3914.0
>  Wait-Time-Communications:        35105.0
>           Wait-Time-Media:          435.0
>
>         Data   IdleW   CommW  MediaW   Eff Xfer  Data Xfer
>         ----   -----   -----  ------   --------  ---------
>  114766.2 MB    5.5%   49.6%    0.6%   1.6 MB/s   1.7 MB/s
>
>
>  --- Detailed
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
>                                   ARCHIVE            BACKUP
>          Objects-Inserted:           51.0            2885.0
>               MB-Inserted:         2138.0          112463.8
>               GB-Inserted:            2.1             109.8
>
>         Objects-Retrieved:            0.0               0.0
>              MB-Retrieved:            0.0               0.0
>              GB-Retrieved:            0.0               0.0
>
>
>  --- NODE Statistics
> ------------------------------------------------------
> ----
>
>                Node          Data   IdleW   CommW  MediaW   Eff Xfer
> Data
> Xfer
>                ----          ----   -----   -----  ------   --------
> -----
> ----
>              server   114766.2 MB    5.5%   49.6%    0.6%   1.6 MB/s
> 1.7
> MB/s
>        ADSM_ACADIAN       17.2 MB   32.8%   40.6%    0.0%   0.3 MB/s
> 0.4
> MB/s
>        ADSM_BUGATTI       19.5 MB   36.2%   46.8%    0.0%   0.4 MB/s
> 0.6
> MB/s
>         ADSM_CAMARO       18.7 MB   31.5%   38.4%    0.0%   0.3 MB/s
> 0.4
> MB/s
>          ADSM_CAMRY     1945.7 MB    1.9%   97.3%    0.0%   0.3 MB/s
> 0.3
> MB/s
>         ADSM_CELICA       41.7 MB   63.9%   31.8%    0.0%   0.1 MB/s
> 0.2
> MB/s
>       ADSM_CHEVETTE       17.2 MB   36.4%   49.1%    0.0%   0.3 MB/s
> 0.5
> MB/s
>        ADSM_CORVAIR       20.8 MB   35.4%   52.1%    0.0%   0.4 MB/s
> 0.7
> MB/s
>         ADSM_COUGAR      207.1 MB   82.8%   15.5%    0.0%   0.1 MB/s
> 0.4
> MB/s
>       ADSM_FIREBIRD       18.4 MB   33.9%   43.5%    0.0%   0.3 MB/s
> 0.4
> MB/s
>        ADSM_GRANDAM       35.0 MB   69.9%    4.8%    0.0%   0.2 MB/s
> 0.6
> MB/s
>        ADSM_LINCOLN     2669.8 MB    2.4%   92.6%    1.9%   0.2 MB/s
> 0.2
> MB/s
>         ADSM_LUMINA    50439.4 MB    0.5%   42.1%    0.8%   2.5 MB/s
> 2.6
> MB/s
>         ADSM_SAHARA       12.9 MB   50.0%   12.0%    0.0%   0.3 MB/s
> 0.5
> MB/s
>          ADSM_SP1CI        1.7 MB    0.0%   90.9%    0.0%   0.2 MB/s
> 0.2
> MB/s
>          ADSM_SP1DB    59301.3 MB    0.2%   32.7%    0.2%   2.0 MB/s
> 2.0
> MB/s
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> chris.bayly AT UALBERTA DOT CA on 98/04/17 02:48:33 AM
>
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> antoine.Verheijen AT UAlberta DOT CA, chris.bayly AT ualberta DOT ca
> Subject: Size of sites?
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>
> Hi!  I'm helping to maintain an ADSM site here at the University of
> Alberta.  In an effort to plan for the future, and just plain
> curiosity, I'm interested in appox. how much data other ADSM sites
> deal with in a day (amount of data backed up and restored by users),
> how much data is in your tape library, how many clients have you got,
> and what kind of server this is all going through...  For example,
> Machine: RS/6000 580 (192MB ram, ~50gigs of ssa disk)
> TapeLibrary: 3494
> TotalData: ~4TB
> DataPerDay: (really rough guess ~10gig)
> Clients: ~150 (some huge servers, many PeeCee's...)
> We have some large database's coming on line, and I'm trying to see
> how much day various sites handle...  We some machines looking at
> backing up 10's of gigs a day...  I need to get a bit better handle on
> how many 10's of gigs out new 4 processor F50 with ATM and FDDI can
> handle. :)
> Thanks in advance for any information in advance!
> --
> Chris Bayly
> Email:  Chris.Bayly AT UAlberta DOT CA         | UNIX Support
> Phone:  (403) 492-9344                  | 352 General Services
> Building
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