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The Disk Pool Manager ( DPM ) TWiki

The Disk Pool Manager (DPM) is a distributed storage system offering multi-protocol access to a scaleable data-store with support for the authentication/communication protocols used in the "grid standard" X509/VOMS AA.

The DPM Guide

• Chapter 01 : DPM Introduction - an overview of DPM and its architecture
• Chapter 02 : DPM Deployment Guide - how do deploy and upgrade a DPM
  • Section 01 : DPM Puppet installation guide
  • Section 02 : DPM Manual installation guide
  • Section 03 : Detailed information on individual components
  • Section 04 : DPM Tuning Hints - More than Performance Tuning. Expect poor service in the absence of these, no matter the size of the cluster.
  • Section 05 : DPM Cache setup
  • Section 06 : Enabling DOME - How to upgrade your DPM and activate DOME
• Chapter 03 : DPM Admin Guide - how to operate a DPM
  • Section 01 : Cluster Administration - Operating a DPM
  • Section 02 : DPM Known issues - Common problems and known issues
  • Section 03 : DPM Tuning Hints - More than Performance Tuning. Expect poor service in the absence of these, no matter the size of the cluster.
  • Section 04 : dpm-tester guide - How to test and validate a DPM
  • Section 05 : dmlite-shell guide - The dmlite-shell reference
  • Section 06 : Contrib-Admintools - The DPM admin suite
  • Section 07 : Nagios Plugins - Set of DPM specific Nagios plugins to monitor all Head and Disk node daemons
• Chapter 04 : DPM Migration Guide - replace DPM with different storage implementation
• • Section 01 : dCache
• Appendix 01 : Legacy components - dealing with a legacy or mixed installation
• Appendix 02 : SRM alternatives - Moving clients off SRM

Dev Guide

• Continuous Builds
• Information for developers
• Releasing through EPEL

The DPM Collaboration

• DpmCollaboration
• DPM Community White Paper

CERN Internals

• DpmTestbeds