Ramin, I'm not terribly familiar with the web interface since I do all the configuration by editing files. The page with the 5.0 documentation has the same paragraph as the 4.6 documentation regarding the file system used for disk archiving can be any UNIX file system.
http://wikis.sun.com/display/SAMQFSDocs/Sun+Storage+Archive+Manager+%28SAM%29+Configuration+and+Administration+Guide#SunStorageArchiveManager%28SAM%29ConfigurationandAdministrationGuide-AboutDiskArchiving I would create the diskvols.conf and archiver.cmd by hand if the GUI doesn't show the NFS mount point as a valid disk archiving target. The file system mount point should be only accessible by root, i.e 0700 root:root. ________________________________________ Nathan Schumann | Consultant Instrumental, Inc | High Performance Innovation Address: 2748 E. 82nd St., Bloomington, MN 55425 Direct: 952.345.2826 Fax: 952.345.2837 Toll-free: 800.866.6188 E-Mail: nds at instrumental.com Web: http://www.instrumental.com STRICTLY PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL. This email may contain confidential and proprietary material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient please contact the sender and delete all copies On Nov 12, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Ramin Rouzbeh wrote: > Hello Nathan, > > I took a look at the link you sent and you are right. However I am > using SAM-QFS 5.0 so the claim should still be supported. This is > my system design: Solaris 10(runing SA-MQFS) --->NFS mount --Linux > Gateway--->iscsi vault--->storage cloud. There are issues with > connecting the iscsi vault to the solris that is why I have the > gateway. From SUN documents i can tell that i have to confgiure the > QFS file system and when i try to do that through the manager I dont > see my NFS mount as an available disk to use. I am confused because > some say yes it works and some say no it doesnt. A Sun pre sales > eng had told me it doesnt. But the document you show says other. > > Thanks > Ramin > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Nathan Schumann > <nds at instrumental.com> wrote: > Ramin, > > There is no reason that you couldn't use an NFS mounted file system > as a target for disk archiving. As long as SAM can write to it, > then it should be fine. You will not likely find any documentation > for your specific configuration since it's an XFS backend and may > have support issues. The only time that you need to have a QFS > backend for disk archiving is if you are using the remote disk > archiving feature with sam-rftd. > > From the 4.6 documentation > (http://docs.sun.com/source/819-7931-10/chap03.html#pgfId-967150 > ): > > The file system to which the archive files are written can be any > UNIX file system. However, if disk archive copies are written to a > different host, the host must have at least one file system > installed on it that is compatible with the Sun StorageTek SAM > software. > > To me this says that as long as the NFS file system can be written > to and read from SAM, then there should be no issues. NFS is a UNIX > file system type. > > Simple configuration: > > diskvols.conf: > > archive_disk /nfs/mount/point > > archiver.cmd: > > fs = my_fs > all . > 1 1h > > vsns > all.1 dk archive_disk > endvsns > > The only other caution I would provided besides a potential support > issue would be performance of the NFS mounted file system. Make > sure that your XFS file system and network can handle the disk > archiving operations. > > Good luck and let me know if you have any questions. > > ________________________________________ > > Nathan Schumann | Consultant > Instrumental, Inc | High Performance Innovation > > Address: 2748 E. 82nd St., Bloomington, MN 55425 > Direct: 952.345.2826 > Fax: 952.345.2837 > Toll-free: 800.866.6188 > E-Mail: nds at instrumental.com > Web: http://www.instrumental.com > > STRICTLY PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL. This email may contain > confidential and proprietary material for the sole use of > the intended recipient. Any review or distribution by others is > strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient please > contact the sender and delete all copies > > > On Nov 12, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Ramin Rouzbeh wrote: > > Hi David & Pat, > > Thank you for getting back to me. I am trying something new and > having a hard time finding documentation or evidence if such a thing > has been done. I keep getting mixed answers. A SUN solutions > engineer told me that it couldnt be done because QFS has to be the > fiels system at the back end. I have a Solaris 10 box that i have > installed SAM-QFS. On the same box i have an NFS mount that has XFS > on the disk. I understand in order to archive to a disk i have to > configure the QFS filesystem on it. However I cant see the mount > throught the SAM manager in the section of creating a new > filesystem. Do you guys have some solid documentation you can point > me to? I have looked at SUN's documents however its very basic. > > Thanks > Ramin > > > > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:43 PM, David Gwynne <loki at animata.net> > wrote: > why not? > > On 13/11/2009, at 6:46 AM, Ramin Rouzbeh wrote: > > > Hi Anyone, > > > > Can SAM-QFS archive to an NFS mount that has XFS on the back end? > > > > Thanks, > > Ramin > > _______________________________________________ > > sam-qfs-discuss mailing list > > sam-qfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sam-qfs-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > sam-qfs-discuss mailing list > sam-qfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sam-qfs-discuss > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/sam-qfs-discuss/attachments/20091112/c5f08621/attachment-0001.html>
