RAL Tier1 weekly operations castor 22/07/2016
Contents
Minutes from the previous meeting
Operation problems
CMS external xroot test is failing
gdss619 showed hardware problems and had to be set to read-only mode for RAID verify tests.
No route to tape issues for CMS due to the way file classes are set up
An number of facilities tape drives were down
AN LHCb tape containing 800 files has been physically lost. Tim is chasing this up.
Operation news
Tape system library is stable
Deployment of the Dell 2015 tape buffers has started. Three of them have been deployed to atlasNonProd service class
Long-term projects
Not much success with fixing the 2.1.15 installation in liason with CERN
Migration to aquilon and SL7 upgrade. Intermediate step: configure a VM as a tape server.
Staffing
CP on call next week
RA may take of some time in lieu
GP may leave earlier certain days
Actions
CASTOR TEAM Durham / Leicester Dirac data - need to create separate tape pools / uid / gid
RA disks servers requiring RAID update - locate servers and plan for update with fabric
RA decide what to do with persistent data (for daily test) is still on GenScratch
RA to update the doc for xroot certificates
GP to review with RA the mailing lists he is on
GP/RA to look at the stress test results for gdss596 and evaluate the WAN tuning parameters
Operation problems
gdss650 (LHCB d1t0) gdss634 (atlasTape) went out of production due to hard drive and RAID card problems respectively
Operation news
Three Dell 2015 disk servers were deployed into atlasTape. Six more are under deployment into cmsTape and lhcbRawRdst
Long-term projects
xroot tests for the 2.1.5 upgrade are in progress. A phone meeting will be arranged with Giussepe next week
Migration to aquilon and SL7 upgrade. GP has created a VM on the cloud and will start adding tape server features on aquilon
Staffing
CP on call next week
Actions
RA disks servers requiring RAID update - locate servers and plan for update with fabric
RA decide what to do with persistent data (for daily test) is still on GenScratch
RA to update the doc for xroot certificates
GP to present the stress test results of gdss596 configured with the WAN tuning parameters
Completed actions
CASTOR TEAM Durham / Leicester Dirac data - need to create separate tape pools / uid / gid
GP to review with RA the mailing lists he is on