Trial partitioning requirements, additional NSP components

Trial auxiliary database partitioning scheme

The following table lists the partitions required for the trial deployment of an auxiliary database.

For a multi-station auxiliary database, or a single-station database that has a high data rate, the /opt/nsp/nfmp/auxdb/backup partition has the following special requirements:

• It is strongly recommended that the partition is a remote mount point or directly attached storage connected by a minimum 10 GByte/s link.

• Each auxiliary database station requires a separate backup volume that is mounted as /opt/nsp/nfmp/auxdb/backup on the auxiliary database station.

  For example, if the specified auxiliary database backup location is /opt/nsp/nfmp/auxdb/backup, the auxiliary database stations require the following mount points:

  • station 1:

    remote_host:station_1_backup_volume_path/opt/nsp/nfmp/auxdb/backup

  • station 2:

    remote_host:station_2_backup_volume_path/opt/nsp/nfmp/auxdb/backup

  • station 3:

    remote_host:station_3_backup_volume_path/opt/nsp/nfmp/auxdb/backup

• The supported file systems for the backup location are ext3, ext4, Ceph, and NFS.

Note: The /opt/nsp/nfmp/auxdb/backup partition can be a local mount point in a single-station database that has a low to moderate data rate.

Table 2-4: Trial partitioning scheme, auxiliary database

Disks required: two 300 GByte (RAID 0)
Partition	Content	Size (GBytes)
swap	Swap space	16
/	Root	26
/home	User home directories	0.5
/opt	NSP auxiliary database software	49
/tmp	Temporary files	4
/var	System data	64
/var/log	System logs	6
/var/log/audit	System audit logs	6
/opt/nsp/nfmp/auxdb/data	Auxiliary database data	335
/extra	NSP and NFM-P software storage	50
Required additional storage
/opt/nsp/nfmp/auxdb/backup	Auxiliary database backup data	Equal to /opt/nsp/nfmp/auxdb/data