Setup guide

Assembling the Disk or LUN Devices into a Logical
Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Creating the XFS Filesystem on the Logical Volume . . . . . . . 190
Manually Creating a Mount Point and Mounting the
Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Visual Effects and Finishing Applications Wiretap Path
Translation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
About Wiretap Path Translation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Configuring the Path Translation Database . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Sharing the Database Among Multiple Wiretap Servers . . . . . . 199
Testing the Path Translation Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Visual Effects and Finishing Standard Filesystem Maintenance . . . . . 200
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Terminology and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Controlling Fragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Limiting Concurrent Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Configuring Bandwidth Reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Adding a New Device to the Bandwidth Manager . . . . . 203
Reserving Bandwidth for an Application . . . . . . . . . . 205
Defining Groups of Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Monitoring Partition Fill Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Using Multi-Threaded Direct I/O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Enabling Media Pre-allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Testing Filesystem Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Visual Effects and Finishing Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
General Application Troubleshooting Procedures . . . . . . . . . 215
Forcing an Application to Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Troubleshooting Filesystem Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Verifying that Stone and Wire Processes Are
Running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Starting Stone and Wire Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Checking Stone and Wire Error Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Enabling Verbose Stone and Wire Driver Error
Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Troubleshooting Missing Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Verifying that the Disks are Available to the Operating
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Verifying Disk Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Solving a Framestore ID Mismatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Solving a Partition ID Conflict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Removing Invalid Frame References from the Stone and
Wire Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Troubleshooting Wire Network Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Testing Wire Using sw_framestore_dump . . . . . . . . . . 226
Using ping to Test Network Communication . . . . . . . . 227
Using sw_ping to Test Wire Communication . . . . . . . . 228
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