Storage Upgrade

Upgrade

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Guidelines for PnfsManager

The idea is have a single host for all the various dCache postgresql databases (both namespace, srm, pin manager and space manager) and we will run the PnfsManager with the chimera backend on the same host.

It should be great have a second and identical host as a warm standby, using continuous WAL archiving of postgresql. That way you will have a copy of all databases which are almost up to date (within a few minutes).

Following FNAL dCache configuration, pay attentio to make a independent disk layout for databases, logs and system. An extreme advice is set all loggin parameter in pnfsSetup to 0 (no logging) and redirect all log output from the PNFS server to /dev/null. Also raid10 on database disk should be good.

Postgres

cd /tmp/
wget http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/reporpms/8.3/pgdg-centos-8.3-4.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh pgdg-centos-8.3-4.noarch.rpm
yum install postgresql postgresql-server
chkconfig postgresql on
service postgresql initdb
chkconfig postgresql on && service postgresql start
/usr/bin/postgres --version

Java

chmod +x jdk-6u12-linux-x64-rpm.bin 
./jdk-6u12-linux-x64-rpm.bin 
java -version

PNFS

It is know a dependency with an libpq.so.4 for 32 bits. The first workaround is include a symbolic link of /usr/lib64/libpq.so.4 to /usr/lib/libpq.so.4 . The second one is install pnfs-postgresql using rpm -ivh --nodeps .

Guidelines for SMRManager

• Install Java in this node;
• we need a host certificate installed (copied from osg-se.sprace.org.br ) at /etc/grid-security and also a symbolic link to certificates directory. Use automount to mount our computer element directories:

 echo "/osgce     /etc/auto.spraid01   --timeout=30" >> /etc/auto.master
 echo "OSG     -rw,soft,bg,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,tcp   192.168.1.150:/OSG" > /etc/auto.osgce
 chkconfig autofs on
 ln -s /osgce/OSG /OSG
 ln -s /osgce/globus/TRUSTED_CA  /etc/grid-security/certificates 

• Install PhEDEx

Pools

To change our pools to a 64 bits node host, important directories:

• The pool directory. It contains a control/ directory with meta data, a data/ directory with data, a one or more setup files.
• An entry in the pool_name_n.poollist (i.e. spraid02.poollist) file stored in the config/ directory of the dCache installation. This entry contains the path to the pool directory, the name of the pool and various settings.

Follow these steps to move a pool. Let's assume you move pool POOL_1 from SOURCE to DEST. SOURCE and DEST may

• Make sure the pool is shut down /opt/d-cache/bin/dcache stop.
• Copy the directory containing POOL_1 from SOURCE to DEST (take care not to overwrite files at DEST).
• Copy the SOURCE.poollist file from SOURCE to DEST (you can add more pools in this same file)
• Restart the pools at DEST

Important: Do not start the pool at SOURCE after you moved the files.

• Another possibility is using dcache CopyManager to just copy POOL_1 from SOURCE to DEST.

Alternatively we can bring the two new pool nodes online in the existing setup with new pool names, and the use the migration command of the pools to move the data - this command is available from dCache 1.9.1 and onwards.

migration move new_pool1

should do the trick. Run "help migration copy" for a description of all the options.

Admin

Following some advices from FNAL presentation it is a common mistake put gridftp doors on admin node.

It means that we want to migrate our PNFs to a different host, so we need to export our database. In our SOURCE admin it is done like a

/opt/d-cache/bin/dcache stop
/opt/pnfs/bin/pnfs stop
pg_dump -U pnfsserver admin >admin.dump 
pg_dump -U pnfsserver data1 >data1.dump

now inject it in your fresh install DEST admin node (we assume that all configuration files are set up)

dropdb -U pnfsserver admin
dropdb -U pnfsserver data1
createdb -U postgres admin
createdb -U postgres data1
psql -U postgres admin
and restart your pnfs system.



  * May be consider change to a Chimera , following these instructions
http://trac.dcache.org/projects/dcache/wiki/pnfsDump2MigratePnfs2Chimera


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-- MarcoAndreFerreiraDias - 23 Feb 2009