Administrator's Guide

Contents
1 Varieties of Cluster Test................................................................................5
CT Image................................................................................................................................5
CT Image using a network.........................................................................................................5
RPM........................................................................................................................................6
2 The Cluster Test GUI....................................................................................7
Starting Cluster Test...................................................................................................................7
Files generated by Cluster Test....................................................................................................7
Running cluster tests..................................................................................................................7
Configuration settings.........................................................................................................10
Running tests in a batch......................................................................................................11
Using scripts to run tests......................................................................................................12
Test descriptions.................................................................................................................14
Monitoring tests and viewing results..........................................................................................15
The nodes monitoring window.............................................................................................15
The test output window.......................................................................................................16
Performance analysis..........................................................................................................18
Test report.........................................................................................................................19
Checking the InfiniBand fabric..................................................................................................20
The Cluster Test toolbar menus..................................................................................................21
3 The accelerator test GUI............................................................................22
Starting accelerator tests..........................................................................................................22
Files generated by accelerator test............................................................................................22
Running accelerator tests.........................................................................................................23
4 Cluster Test procedure as recommended by HP.............................................26
Additional software.................................................................................................................26
Configuring Cluster Test when using RPM...................................................................................26
Accelerator test procedure.......................................................................................................27
The Cluster Test procedure.......................................................................................................29
5 The performance monitor...........................................................................33
The performance monitor utility................................................................................................33
The xperf utility......................................................................................................................35
6 Cluster Test tools.......................................................................................36
Hardware Inventory................................................................................................................36
Firmware Summary.................................................................................................................36
Server health check.................................................................................................................37
Excluding the head node from tests...........................................................................................38
Disk Scrubber........................................................................................................................39
7 Running tests in parallel.............................................................................41
8 Creating and changing per node files.........................................................42
An example per-node directory.................................................................................................42
An example cloned per-node directory......................................................................................42
9 NFS performance tuning...........................................................................43
10 Troubleshooting......................................................................................44
Detecting new hardware..........................................................................................................44
Troubleshooting Cluster Test.....................................................................................................45
11 Support and other resources.....................................................................46
Scope of this document...........................................................................................................46
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