| Title and Copyright Information |
| About This Manual |
| Audience |
| Organization |
| Related Documents |
| Reader's Comments |
| Conventions |
| 1 | Understanding Prestoserve |
| 1.1 | Prestoserve and Synchronous Write Operations |
| 1.2 | How Prestoserve Works |
| 1.3 | NFS Environment and Performance Problems |
| 1.3.1 | Network Problems |
| 1.3.2 | Client Problems |
| 1.3.3 | Server Problems |
| 1.3.4 | NFS Server Performance |
| 1.3.5 | Prestoserve's Impact on NFS Server Performance |
| 2 | Getting Started with Prestoserve |
| 2.1 | Installing the dxpresto Subset |
| 2.2 | Registering the Prestoserve License |
| 2.3 | Configuring Prestoserve |
| 2.3.1 | Adding the Prestoserve Pseudodevice |
| 2.3.2 | Adding the Prestoserve Controller Device |
| 2.4 | Setting Up and Enabling Prestoserve |
| 2.4.1 | Using the prestosetup Command |
| 2.4.2 | Manually Setting Up Prestoserve |
| 2.4.2.1 | Creating the Prestoserve Control Device |
| 2.4.2.2 | Starting the portmap Daemon |
| 2.4.2.3 | Specifying Configuration Variables in the rc.config File |
| 2.4.2.4 | Creating the prestotab File |
| 2.4.2.5 | Running the prestoctl_svc Daemon |
| 3 | Prestoserve Administration |
| 3.1 | Prestoserve Operation |
| 3.1.1 | Prestoserve Buffer Management |
| 3.1.2 | Prestoserve States |
| 3.2 | Managing Prestoserve |
| 3.2.1 | Accelerating File Systems |
| 3.2.2 | Disabling File System Acceleration |
| 3.2.3 | Displaying the Status of File Systems |
| 3.2.4 | Displaying the Prestoserve State and Buffer Status |
| 3.2.5 | Using dxpresto to Administer and Monitor Prestoserve |
| 3.3 | Handling the Prestoserve Cache |
| 3.3.1 | Writing the Contents of the Cache to Disk |
| 3.3.2 | Resetting Prestoserve and Clearing the Cache |
| 3.3.3 | Changing the Cache Size |
| 3.4 | Displaying Debugging Information |
| 3.5 | Checking Prestoserve |
| 4 | Recovering from System Failures |
| 4.1 | Normal and Abnormal System Shutdowns |
| 4.1.1 | Recovering Cache Data After an Abnormal Shutdown |
| 4.1.2 | Recovering Cache Data After Replacing a CPU Board |
| 4.1.3 | Handling Failed Prestoserve Hardware |
| 4.1.4 | Moving the Prestoserve Hardware |
| 4.2 | Disk Failures |
| 4.2.1 | Temporary Disk Failures |
| 4.2.2 | Serious Disk Failures |
| Examples |
| 3-1 | Prestoserve Status |
| Figures |
| 1-1 | Example of NFS Environment |
| 3-1 | dxpresto Window |
| 3-2 | Expanded dxpresto Window |
| Index |