HPSS Installation Guide
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HPSS Installation Guide High Performance Storage System, version 7.5.3.0.0, 10 December 2018 HPSS Installation Guide High Performance Storage System, version 7.5.3.0.0, 10 December 2018 Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................................................... xi 1. Release 7.5 ......................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1. New features in 7.5.2 ............................................................................................................. 1 1.1.1. CR439 - LTO8 support ............................................................................................... 1 1.1.2. CR413 - TS1155/359255F/Jag5A support .................................................................. 1 1.1.3. CR 379 - Using a file system as a storage device ...................................................... 1 1.1.4. CR 397 - Improve sparse tape repack ......................................................................... 1 1.1.5. CR 369 - API access to subsystem limits ................................................................... 2 1.1.6. CR 438 / 303 SCSI PVR move queue and performance improvements ..................... 3 1.1.7. Disk allocation statistics tool ...................................................................................... 4 1.1.8. CR 357 Update PFTP to support TOR ....................................................................... 4 1.1.9. CR 183 and CR 280 Abort I/O Jobs ........................................................................... 4 1.1.10. CR 320 Media Access Logging ................................................................................ 5 1.1.11. CR 270 Full Aggregate Recall (FAR) ...................................................................... 6 1.2. Features retired in 7.5.2 ......................................................................................................... 6 1.2.1. Remove support for "Migrate Volumes" .................................................................... 6 1.3. Features deferred in 7.5.2 ....................................................................................................... 6 1.4. Features deprecated in 7.5.2 ................................................................................................... 6 1.4.1. Non-move queue SCSI PVR deprecated ..................................................................... 6 1.5. Changes to existing HPSS features in 7.5.2 .......................................................................... 7 1.5.1. INFO Log Type (CR 349) .......................................................................................... 7 1.5.2. Logging (CR 375) ....................................................................................................... 7 1.5.3. Purge policy start/stop specification ........................................................................... 8 1.5.4. PVL job queue display ................................................................................................ 8 1.5.5. Recover utility replaces control files with database .................................................... 8 1.5.6. Recover utility makes use of Tape Ordered Recall (TOR) ......................................... 8 1.5.7. 7.5.2 Client API Changes ............................................................................................ 9 1.5.7.1. New Features .................................................................................................... 9 1.5.7.2. New Interfaces for Request IDs ....................................................................... 9 1.5.7.3. Deprecated Fields and Functions ................................................................... 10 1.5.7.4. New Flags and Fields ..................................................................................... 10 1.5.7.5. New Functions ................................................................................................ 10 1.5.7.6. Other Changes ................................................................................................ 11 1.5.7.7. Data Structure Changes .................................................................................. 11 1.5.7.8. 64-bit Request IDs .......................................................................................... 11 1.5.8. File name resolution with lbp_verify ....................................................................... 12 1.5.9. Increased Mover Connections Limits ....................................................................... 12 1.6. New features in 7.5.1 ........................................................................................................... 12 1.6.1. CR 277 - DB2 partitioning ....................................................................................... 12 1.6.2. Tape Order Recall (CR 285) ..................................................................................... 12 1.6.3. End to end data integrity (E2EDI) ............................................................................ 13 1.6.3.1. File hashing ..................................................................................................... 13 1.6.3.2. Tape Logical Block Protection (LBP) ............................................................ 13 1.6.4. Disks can now be created in the DOWN state ......................................................... 14 1.6.5. I/O-aware mounts (allows for media-read flexibility with T10K) ............................ 14 1.6.6. Add command history to PFTP ................................................................................. 14 1.6.7. Provide file disk labels with file extended attributes ................................................ 14 iii HPSS Installation Guide 1.6.8. HPSS full path support .............................................................................................. 15 1.6.9. Increased purge/unlink rate for disk-resident files .................................................... 15 1.6.10. Tape LBP validation tool ........................................................................................ 15 1.6.11. Allow media type in storage class config to be modified ....................................... 16 1.6.12. Add LTO-7 tape drive support (CR 367) ................................................................ 16 1.6.13. Add 64-bit versions of the API hpss_Statfs and hpss_Statvfs functions ................. 16 1.6.14. Mover admin process now responds to SIGHUP ................................................... 16 1.6.15. Groups of servers can now be marked non-executable at the same time ................ 16 1.6.16. SCSI PVR will now look at all slots for dismount ................................................. 16 1.6.17. Batch storage resource create and delete continuation ............................................ 17 1.6.18. Self-healing Offline disks ........................................................................................ 17 1.6.19. Tool for smart mass recall (quaid) .......................................................................... 17 1.6.20. HPSS Client API Programmer’s Reference is now available in HTML and PDF ....................................................................................................................................... 17 1.6.21. HPSS Client API now supports pkg-config ............................................................ 18 1.7. Features retired in 7.5.1 ....................................................................................................... 18 1.7.1. AIX support for server and Movers .......................................................................... 18 1.8. Features deferred in 7.5.1 ..................................................................................................... 18 1.9. Features deprecated in 7.5.1 ................................................................................................. 18 1.9.1. Deprecate UDA checksum support ........................................................................... 18 1.9.2. Remove support for "Migrate Volumes" .................................................................. 18 1.10. Changes in 7.5.1 to existing HPSS features ...................................................................... 18 2. HPSS basics ..................................................................................................................................... 20 2.1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 20 2.2. HPSS capabilities ................................................................................................................. 20 2.2.1. Network-centered architecture ................................................................................... 20 2.2.2. High data transfer rate ............................................................................................... 20 2.2.3. Parallel operation ....................................................................................................... 21 2.2.4. Based on standard components ................................................................................. 21 2.2.5. Data integrity through transaction management ....................................................... 21 2.2.6.