AIX

It has been a while… Today – Monitor I/O in AIX

Byetzion 25/11/2006

It is a question I’ve been asked a while back, and didn’t find the time to search for it.

I have searched for an answer just now, and got to an answer given by one of the old-time gurus (most likely) in news servers (where the gurus lurk, usually). The answer is to use the command "filemon" in a syntax such as this:

filemon -O lf -o outputfile.txt

To stop the monitoring session, run "trcstop". Review the output file generated by this command, and you will be able to view the I/O interactions which happened during that time on the system.

Disk Storage | Linux

Enable blk_mq on Redhat (OEL/Centos) 7 and 8

Byetzion 18/12/202127/01/2023

The IO scheduler blk_mq was designed to increase disk performance – better IOps and lower latency – on flash disk systems, with emphasis on NVME devices. A nice by-product, is that it increases performance on the “older” SCSI/SAS/SATA layer as well, when the disks in the back are SSD, and even when they are rotational…

Disk Storage | Linux | Scripting/Programming | Virtualization

Quick provisioning of virtual machines

Byetzion 01/02/2008

When one wants to achieve fast provisioning of virtual machines, some solutions might come into account. The one I prefer uses Linux LVM snapshot capabilities to duplicate one working machine into few.

This can happen, of course, only if the host running VMware-Server is Linux.

LVM snapshots have one vast disadvantage

Linux | Scripting/Programming

Centreon and batch-adding hosts

Byetzion 27/04/2009

Centreon is a nice GUI wrapper for Nagios. It is using MySQL as its configuration engine, and it functions quite well. One thing Cacti can do but Centreon can’t is mass automatic addition of servers. I have had a new site with an installed Centreon, and I wanted to add about 40 servers to be…

Disk Storage | Linux

net-snmp broken in RHEL (and Centos, of course) – diskio

Byetzion 09/06/2007

I’ve had a belief for quite a while now that Linux, unlike other types of systems, was unable to produce any I/O SNMP information. I only recently found out that it was partially true – all production-level distros, such as RedHat (and Centos, for that matter) were unable to produce any output for any SNMP…

Linux | Scripting/Programming | Virtualization

Xen VMs performance collection

Byetzion 18/10/200816/01/2022

Unlike VMware Server, Xen’s HyperVisor does not allow an easy collection of performance information. The management machine, called “Domain-0” is actually a privileged virtual machine, and thus – get its own small share of CPUs and RAM. Collecting performance information on it will lead to, well, collecting performance information for a single VM, and not…

Disk Storage

Ontap Simulator, and some insights about NetApp

Byetzion 09/05/2006

First and foremost – the Ontap simulator, a great tool which surely can assist in learning NetApp interface and utilization, lacks in performance. It has some built-in limitations – No FCP, no disks (virtual disks) larger than 1GB (per my trial-and-error. I might find out I was wrong somehow, and put in on this website),…

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