we are running with sas 9.4 m6 on rhel 7. We already have one nfs drive for users which is like 60 TB where users save data for x years and asking for more, is it good idea to add more storage under same nfs mount or have another mount for old data storage and use existing one for current data which needs to be process for efficient I/O and all?
First of all, I would not use NFS at all in a production environment for SAS datasets, as the performance of NFS is not suited for that. And the bandwidth occupied by storage will negatively impact your other network traffic (HTTP for SAS Studio, COM for EG). If you do not use internal storage (eg Serial Attached SCSI), go for a fibre-channel based SAN.
That said, there are two ways to deal with "old" data. You can move it to less performant infrastructure, or you can move it to long-time archival storage, which is provided by all major backup solutions like CommVault, Spectrum Protect (ex TSM), and many others.
Moving it to the tape archive is what we do. If such data is required, it only takes a few minutes for retrieval, and the data does not occupy disk space and does not clutter up our libraries while not needed.
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Thank you Kurt and Simon. appreciate your insights. unfortunately we have nfs storage and infect we are facing different challenges when it comes to IO and all different Application performance. we are looking into different options at the moment.
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Thank you so much Simon. I finished that article, very useful. will look out for book as well,
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Under your situation, the immediate solution will be to add a second drive and archive what is not needed.
About the 60 TB nfs drive, if it is being used for direct read/write by SAS programs, then please have a review of your storage solution as suggested @SimonDawson .
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