[Veritas-bu] Performance Issue with NB7 on Solaris 10

2011-03-21 Thread mlogic
Hi, Sun SL500 with NB7. LTO-4 I am trying to backup our mail sever, it took forever and then after few hours keep getting. 1: (11) system call failed 2: (11) system call failed and 1: (13) file read failed and also get this 1: (11) system call failed 2: (79) unsupported image format

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance Issue with NB7 on Solaris 10

2011-03-21 Thread Len Boyle
-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of mlogic Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 9:29 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Performance Issue with NB7 on Solaris 10 Hi, Sun SL500 with NB7. LTO-4 I am trying to backup our mail sever, it took forever and then after few

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance Issue with NB7 on Solaris 10

2011-03-21 Thread Saran Brar
System call failed usually suggests unknown hostname. Did you test the basic network connectivity between master/media server and client. Try following commands On master/media server -- bptestbpcd -client clietname -verbose -- telnet clientname bpcd -- bpclntcmd -ip clientip -- bpclntcmd -hn

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance tuning Windows 2008 client

2010-07-08 Thread Jack . Forester
...@mylan.com, veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu cc Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance tuning Windows 2008 client Are you hitting multiple VMs simultaneously on the same datastore? Is the speed better when you only run one backup at a time? We’ve identified serious performance issues related

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance tuning Windows 2008 client

2010-07-08 Thread Wayne T Smith
(Knowing nothing about Win2008R2 and little about VMs, ...) I'd want to get together with my network folks to see if I'm getting dropped packets during the test. Misconfigured connections and overloaded routers can kill performance. I'd also look at windows performance stats ... perhaps memory

[Veritas-bu] Performance tuning Windows 2008 client

2010-07-07 Thread Jack . Forester
Greetings all, We're observing some significant performance issues with some of our Windows 2008 SP2 clients. Backing up to a DD880 VTL, one client in particular is running at just over 300KB/sec. Others are running 2-3MB/sec. The clients in question are all virtual machines running on

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance tuning Windows 2008 client

2010-07-07 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:28 AM, jack.fores...@mylan.com wrote: We're observing some significant performance issues with some of our Windows 2008 SP2 clients. Backing up to a DD880 VTL, one client in particular is running at just over 300KB/sec. Others are running 2-3MB/sec. The clients in

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance tuning Windows 2008 client

2010-07-07 Thread Jack . Forester
...@ewilts.org Sent by: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu 07/07/2010 10:50 AM To jack.fores...@mylan.com cc veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance tuning Windows 2008 client On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:28 AM, jack.fores...@mylan.com wrote: We're observing

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance tuning Windows 2008 client

2010-07-07 Thread Martin, Jonathan
, 2010 1:56 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance tuning Windows 2008 client Do these contain lots and lots of little files? If so, have you considered FlashBackup? The backup is 19GB over 35,000 files. That's pretty typical. It took 17 hours

Re: [Veritas-bu] performance on windows cluster

2010-05-07 Thread WALLEBROEK Bart
Message: 4 Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 16:49:04 -0700 From: Kevin Corley kevin.cor...@apollogrp.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] performance on windows cluster To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Message-ID: 0a4bb6d0327d99499dead72cc4d7a5c7151e6a2...@exch07

Re: [Veritas-bu] performance on windows cluster

2010-05-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Kevin Corley Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 12:49 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] performance on windows cluster Anybody running a clustered 6.5.x or 7.0 master on Windows 2003 or 2008

[Veritas-bu] performance on windows cluster

2010-05-05 Thread Kevin Corley
Anybody running a clustered 6.5.x or 7.0 master on Windows 2003 or 2008 with MSCS? Looking at this option for a new 10,000+ job per night master. Any comments are appreciated. This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in error, please

[Veritas-bu] Performance tuning wait and delay entries.

2009-06-20 Thread Jeff Cleverley
Greetings, According to the documentation, if logging verbosity is on there will be entries in the bpbkar logs on the client and bptm logs on the media server that show the wait and delay statistics. I'm testing a 6.5.3 installation using remote NDMP so I don't have any client software

[Veritas-bu] Performance tuning with remote NDMP.

2009-06-17 Thread Jeff Cleverley
Greetings, I found some posts from April about people trying to get NDMP performance out of a NetApp but seem to stall out around 120 MB/s. I didn't find any posts that detailed why. I know that having a trunk connection of 1 gig ports will still only use 1 gig port for the point to point

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance tuning with remote NDMP.

2009-06-17 Thread william . d . brown
Well NDMP logging is done differently, so you may want to search for the technotes for that - it will likely give more information. However, I've heard that it can produce an enormous amount of logging. I've not tried remote NDMP any time recently, so I can't claim real-world experience. I

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance tuning with remote NDMP.

2009-06-17 Thread Jeff Cleverley
william.d.br...@gsk.com wrote: Well NDMP logging is done differently, so you may want to search for the technotes for that - it will likely give more information. However, I've heard that it can produce an enormous amount of logging. I know. I've already filled up the file system once

Re: [Veritas-bu] performance tuning - when to use buffers

2007-07-31 Thread Dominik Pietrzykowski
Just a note that you shouldn't use the Solaris kernel settings for Sol 10 because the default value is much bigger. Eg shmsys:shminfo_shmmax On Solaris 10 it will default to 1/4 of physical memory which is pretty good on all the new boxes running Sol 10. -Original Message- From:

[Veritas-bu] Performance issues with user initiated backups.

2007-07-04 Thread mark.a.goodchild
Hi all Environment : Master Netbackup 6.0 MP4 Solaris 10 Media server 6.0 MP4 HP-UX 11 IBM 3584 Library San Attached IBM LTO2 Drives Media server is the oracle client too so it's a local backup. Data : /u21/oradata/D1 118gb 169 files User Backup of above writes to drive1, tape1 at

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance issues with user initiated backups.

2007-07-04 Thread mark.a.goodchild
Thanks Len No restores were running, backups only. Mark From: Len Boyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 July 2007 16:30 To: Goodchild,MA,Mark,XJJ33C C; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Performance issues with user initiated

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance issues with user initiated backups.

2007-07-04 Thread Len Boyle
then those used by the master scheduled backup. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 11:32 AM To: Len Boyle; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Performance issues with user initiated backups. Thanks Len No restores were

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance Problems

2007-01-24 Thread WEAVER, Simon
@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Performance Problems I'm finally getting around to performance tuning the new hardware and my hair is now officially on fire. To say the storage is slow, is like saying the south pole is chilly. Performance is TERRIBLE. Not just in Netbackup, but generally

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance Problems

2007-01-13 Thread bob944
I'm finally getting around to performance tuning the new hardware and my hair is now officially on fire. To say the storage is slow, is like saying the south pole is chilly. Performance is TERRIBLE. Not just in Netbackup, but generally speaking I can't copy files to these volumes at

[Veritas-bu] Performance Problems

2007-01-12 Thread Martin, Jonathan \(Contractor\)
I'm finally getting around to performance tuning the new hardware and my hair is now officially on fire. To say the storage is slow, is like saying the south pole is chilly. Performance is TERRIBLE. Not just in Netbackup, but generally speaking I can't copy files to these volumes at 30MB/sec.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance Problems

2007-01-12 Thread Ed Wilts
On 1/12/2007 3:54 PM, Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) wrote: I'm finally getting around to performance tuning the new hardware and my hair is now officially on fire. To say the storage is slow, is like saying the south pole is chilly. Performance is TERRIBLE. Not just in Netbackup, but

Re: [Veritas-bu] performance scripts

2006-12-04 Thread Adams, Dwayne
Hello, I have been tasked with evaluating the performance of 5.1 environment running on Solaris and making recommendations for improvement. Can anyone point me to some good scripts that can be used to pull drive utilization information, backup window utilization, client performance, etc? Thanks

Re: [Veritas-bu] performance?

2006-02-08 Thread Dave Markham
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Austin Murphy Sent: February 7, 2006 2:58 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] performance? It looks like you are maxing out your Gigabit ethernet cards. My performance measurements of Gigabit ethernet were at best ~35MB/sec for one normal

RE: [Veritas-bu] performance?

2006-02-08 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Markham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 February 2006 11:36 To: Paul Keating Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] performance? Have you set NET_BUFFER_SZ at all on the clients? It may try and increase the throughput buffer wise from client end where it was using

Re: [Veritas-bu] performance?

2006-02-08 Thread Dave Markham
@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] performance? Have you set NET_BUFFER_SZ at all on the clients? It may try and increase the throughput buffer wise from client end where it was using standard values before. Dave Paul Keating wrote: I can add more GigE cards.matter of fact the box

RE: [Veritas-bu] performance?

2006-02-08 Thread Paul Keating
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] performance? Have you set NET_BUFFER_SZ at all on the clients? It may try and increase the throughput buffer wise from client end where it was using standard values before. Dave

Re: [Veritas-bu] performance?

2006-02-08 Thread Darren Dunham
Unless I am missing something here IPMP only increases throughput on the outbound side of the server. Media servers are typically bringing data in from the network. Without further fiddling, that is correct. If you could get some clients to use one IP address for the media server and other

[Veritas-bu] performance?

2006-02-07 Thread Paul Keating
Title: Message I'm running a Sunfire V880. 4x 1.2 GHz Ultrasparc III+ proc. 8 Gig Ram 6 internal 72 Gig disks. 1stpair disks mirrored OS /, /usr, /opt, etc etc 2nd pair disks mirrored /opt/openv (replicated to a standby system using Veritas Volume Replicator) 3rd pair disks one slice

Re: [Veritas-bu] performance?

2006-02-07 Thread Austin Murphy
It looks like you are maxing out your Gigabit ethernet cards. My performance measurements of Gigabit ethernet were at best ~35MB/sec for one normal gigabit link. The only numbers I saw on the internet that were substantially higher used jumbo frames. I'm using an E450 (4x 296MHz) with a 4-port

RE: [Veritas-bu] performance?

2006-02-07 Thread Paul Keating
this year anyway, so Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Austin Murphy Sent: February 7, 2006 2:58 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] performance? It looks like you are maxing out your

Re: [Veritas-bu] Performance issue

2006-01-23 Thread Karl . Rossing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/23/2006 07:18:06 AM: Netbackup version 5.1.4. Solaris 9 master/media server. Our windows file server (win2003) backup has just started taking a very long time for the shadow copy components. Normally a 10 minute backup is now taking over 5 hours. The backup of

[Veritas-bu] Performance Tuning with mixture of SDLT and LTO-2

2006-01-06 Thread Paul Porcelli
Hi folks, I'm looking into the performance tuning side of things in Netbackup 5.1 I have been checking the stats in the bptm logs and it looks like we could get some performance gains by tweaking SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS and NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS. The Data Producer has much larger wait values than the

[Veritas-bu] Performance Tuning NBU 5.1

2005-12-14 Thread WEAVER, Simon
Title: Message Hello I have found a Technote on tuning NBU 4.1 however does anyone have any links or documents on the best way to tune NBU 5.1? I hqave a HP EVL going through fibre with a Master Server 5.1 and now 2 Media Servers. The Media Servers are going through fibre and on initial