<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="docs-internal-guid-5ef8f01d-bb0e-8349-c16a-18ac1e1408f4"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Hello,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">I’m a fairly new hire with Seagate’s Cloud Services group supporting and contributing to Lustre.  Being relatively unfamiliar with Lustre, I was given the opportunity to write a quick-start guide that new developers such as myself could follow.</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><br class=""></span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><br class=""></span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">I’m soliciting any input as to what others might want to be included before submitting my final draft.</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><br class=""></span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><br class=""></span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">At LUG 2015, Brian Andrus had an excellent presentation that I’m basing my document upon and extending (</span><a href="http://cdn.opensfs.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Lustre-101_Andrus.pdf" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">http://cdn.opensfs.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Lustre-101_Andrus.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">My intent is to enable new developers to quickly get a virtual Lustre cluster up and running with very little knowledge of Lustre, KVM or even specifics of which repositories and packages to pull from to get things to “just work”.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">At the moment, my write up is about 80% complete, and I have a collection of very simple BASH scripts that bootstraps Centos 6.6 VM’s entirely from a local kickstart file with no local installation media required (everything is pulled from <a href="http://mirrors.centos.org">mirrors.centos.org</a>).  I am also setting up YUM in the VM’s to prioritise the repos at </span><a href="https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/lustre" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/lustre</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"> and </span><a href="https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/e2fsprogs" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/e2fsprogs</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"> ahead of anything else along with another very simple script that does the the actual install and configuration.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">I chose to document much of the menial steps in scripts as it serves to both document what pages of text would attempt to explain and it gives the option to “just use it”.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Before wrapping this up and presenting the final draft, I am turning to the community for any input on things that should be included.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><br>Thank you!<br><br class=""></span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">John Suykerbuyk</span></p></div>