Symptoms of an Overtaxed Master Server?
I am trying to determine if my Master Server has finally been overloaded.
I have two libraries backing up 600 clients: 580 Windows and 20 UNIX:
Master is Windows Server 2003 x64 SP2 with 24GB of memory.
SUN STL SL8500
36 Tape Drives shared with 5 Media servers and 45 SAN Media Servers.
Multiplexing set to 1 on 1/3 of the clients and anywhere from 4 to 8 on the rest of the clients.
I recently added an HP Storageworks 9000 that is currently configured with 110 drives but right now only 71 of the drives are assigned to to different media servers.
1 Media Server - 36 drive.
12 SAN Media Servers - 35 drives distributed distributed amongst them in various numbers.
No shared drives on the virtual library.
Schedule:
5:00 PM - 10 jobs begin
6:00 PM - 55 jobs
7:00 PM - 33 jobs
7:30 PM - 75 jobs
8:00 PM - 60 jobs
9:00 PM - 110 jobs
9:30 PM - 140 jobs
11:00 PM - 150 jobs
12:00 AM - 90 jobs
There are a total of 930 jobs that run from a 5:00 PM to 5:00 AM backup window with the remainder of the jobs scattered in smaller numbers at various times other than the ones shown above.
1/1/2010 through 4/14/2010 - 560 media errors (either status 98 or 84).
I added the virtual library on 4/15/2010
4/15/2010 to present - 554 media errors (either status 98 or 84).
That's what makes me think I finally killed my Master Server.
I'm going to open a call with Symantec but I wanted to find out if anyone has a similar load running on a single master server.
Thanks in advance for any input.
Randy
Comments
Media errors point to
Media errors point to problems with the Media server(s), not the Master.
good Will backing-up
Makes sense. I still have no
Makes sense. I still have no idea what to do but maybe I'm homing in on the problem. Thanks.
Update
I just realized that the number of media errors I listed above are for jobs that ended with either a status 84 or 98. That doesn't take into account the jobs that failed and requeued. I have the retry set at 4 so the failures were in the 1000's. Geez!!
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