Upgraded to 8.1. From very slow to very fast restore. Nice.
Hans Chr.
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Stefan Folkerts <stefan.folkerts AT gmail DOT
com
> wrote:
> Alex, I think it's not possible to reply to your mail to the list, I can
> reply to others but when I reply to you it gets rejected due to images with
> just plain text in the mail. Maybe you want to change your signature for
> mails towards this list and see if that fixes it.
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Stefan Folkerts <
> stefan.folkerts AT gmail DOT com
> > wrote:
>
> > Okay, it rejected my first and second reply to Alex due to images. (did
> > not have an image in my mail)
> > No idea why but here is my third attempt, a reply to an earlier post.
> >
> > So here are some more specs Alex.
> >
> > Compute is somewhat based on the M model (16 cores, 192GB memory) you
> will
> > find in the Linux 2.3 blueprints, but with internal read intensive SSD's
> in
> > the server on a very fast internal controller for DB & active log.
> > OS is SLES12 build with filesystem layout and types according to the
> > blueprints.
> > Spectrum Protect storage is an IBM V3700 (non turbo) with 36 nearline
> > drives.
> > Spectrum Protect server version 7.1.7 with containerpools (compression
> > enabled)
> > No collocation in use of course.
> > And a bit of tuning of the Linux server and Linux datamovers for the IP
> > stack and memory usage.
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Stefan Folkerts <
> stefan.folkerts AT gmail DOT com
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> Running 6.0u2 without further updates for testing.
> >>
> >> On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 at 20:13, Alex Jaimes <jaimes.alex AT gmail DOT com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello Stefan, what version of ESXi host are you running?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Alex
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Stefan Folkerts <
> >>> stefan.folkerts AT gmail DOT com>
> >>>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> > Server still on 7.1.7
> >>>
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>> > On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 at 19:33, David Ehresman <
> >>> david.ehresman AT louisville DOT edu
> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > wrote:
> >>>
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>> > > Did you upgrade your server to TSM 8.1 when you upgraded VME to
> >>> 8.1? Or
> >>>
> >>> > > is the server still running 7.1?
> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > >
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> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > > David
> >>>
> >>> > >
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> >>> > >
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> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > > -----Original Message-----
> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On
> >>> Behalf Of
> >>>
> >>> > > Stefan Folkerts
> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2017 1:01 PM
> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > > Subject: [ADSM-L] Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments version
> >>> 8.1.0
> >>>
> >>> > > sets speed records
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> >>> > >
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> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > > Hi guy's,
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> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > > I don't know if all of you realise what kind of gigantic
> performance
> >>> step
> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > > IBM has made with the new version of Spectrum Protect for Virtual
> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > > Environments for VMware but I think it's pretty incredible.
> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > > The magic parameter is VMMAXRESTORESESSION.
> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > > See the results below, 1 session was the max that 7.x could do, see
> >>> the
> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > > speeds below when I crank up the sessions.
> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > > Remember, this is restoring a single VM on a single datamover using
> >>>
> >>> > HOTADD.
> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > > 10 is the max setting for this value, i'm interested to know if you
> >>> guy's
> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > > are seeing the same kind of results.
> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > > Oh, and the upgrade was a breeze, if you aren't using the tagging
> >>>
> >>> > features
> >>>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > > it's just next next finish and the restores go so much faster.
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> >>> > > =====================================================
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> >>> > > 1 session
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> >>> > > Total number of objects restored: 1
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> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>> > > Total number of objects failed: 0
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> >>> > >
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> >>> > > Total number of bytes transferred: 104.23 GB
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> >>> > > Data transfer time: 1,926.99 sec
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> >>>
> >>> > > Network data transfer rate: 56,714.31 KB/sec
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> >>> > > Aggregate data transfer rate: 47,888.47 KB/sec
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> >>> > > Elapsed processing time: 00:38:02
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> >>> > > real 38m4.098s
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> >>> > > user 1m14.476s
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> >>> > > Total number of objects restored: 1
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> >>> > > Total number of objects failed: 0
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> >>> > > Total number of bytes transferred: 104.23 GB
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> >>> > > Data transfer time: 2,070.76 sec
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> >>> > > Network data transfer rate: 52,776.80 KB/sec
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> >>> > > Aggregate data transfer rate: 87,191.25 KB/sec
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> >>> > > Elapsed processing time: 00:20:53
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> >>> > > Total number of bytes transferred: 104.23 GB
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> >>> > > Total number of bytes transferred: 104.23 GB
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