Optimizing NFS Performance: Tuning and Troubleshooting NFS on HP-UX Systems [Paperback]

Dave Olker (Author), David Olker (Author)

Book Description

Series: Hewlett-Packard Professional Books | Publication Date: September 13, 2002

This book is a comprehensive guide to understanding how the various components of the NFS product family work together on HP-UX systems and how to configure each of them for optimal performance. Networked File System (NFS) has been the industry standard protocol for remote file access on the Unix operating system platform for many years. It has become a critical component to every flavor of Unix, as well as non-Unix based operating systems. Currently, there is very little information available that describes how to tune NFS for performance. What little information that is available always seems to concentrate on the NFS server, all but ignoring the NFS client. More specifically, there are no books available that describe HP's implementation of NFS in any way. The storage market is shifting focus from directly attached storage to a network attached storage model. This book contains dozens of previously undocumented tuning tips and provides detailed instructions for troubleshooting each NFS client and server component.

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The only authoritative, systematic guide to NFS performance optimization on HP-UX systems.

In Optimizing NFS Performance, one of HP's leading NFS experts presents systematic techniques for optimizing NFS performance on any HP-UX 11 and 11i system in any network and application environment. Dave Olker reviews every component of the NFS product family, showing how they interact on HP-UX systems and how to troubleshoot each element for optimal performance. Olker presents dozens of previously undocumented tuning tips, plus powerful new NFS client optimization techniques that will be invaluable to companies implementing NFS in their environment. Coverage includes:

• Environmental considerations: network, local filesystems, hostname resolution and patch levels
• User-space daemons and kernel threads
• Key decisions and tradeoffs: Automount vs. AutoFS, NFS/UDP or NFS/TCP, NFS/PV2 or NFS/PV3
• CacheFS: potential benefits, limitations, HP-specific enhancements, and measurement techniques
• NFS mount options and recommendations
• Buffer cache sizing techniques that can dramatically enhance performance
• Kernel parameters that significantly influence NFS performance

The only NFS book to focus entirely on HP-UX, Optimizing NFS Performance will be indispensable to every HP-UX system administrator running NFS—or planning to do so.

About the Author

DAVE OLKER has been supporting Hewlett Packard's NFS product family for a decade, as a 3rd tier customer support engineer, and as a consultant in the HP-UX Networking Lab specializing in NFS performance. Olker has taught several classes in NFS internals, and presented technical papers on NFS performance tuning and troubleshooting at InterWorks, HP World, and other user conferences.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Pearson Education; 1st edition (September 13, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130428167
• ISBN-13: 978-0130428165
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,528,932 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #50 in Books > Computers & Technology > Operating Systems > Unix > Administration

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great for other UNIX / Linux systems as well!, June 16, 2007

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This review is from: Optimizing NFS Performance: Tuning and Troubleshooting NFS on HP-UX Systems (Paperback)

This is an all around fantastic book for learning the tricks and methods of network file systems. It will introduce you to some very helpful tools for measuring performance and testing capabilities as well. Very little is HP-UX specific, as it deals mostly with the details of NFS and local file systems. I highly recommend this book if you are either charged with the administration of a large network file distribution system, or if you just want to learn all you can about getting the best out of your network(s) in regards to performance.