[Lustre-discuss] Multi-cluster capability?

[Andreas Dilger]

On Jan 13, 2008  18:57 -0500, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
> I was wondering if Lustre has multi-cluster capability somewhat
> like GPFS or Panasas. Any comments?

Could you explain what you mean by "multi-cluster"?

Lustre is installed in environments where a single filesystem is
accessible on multiple large clusters simultaneously.  This is usually
configured with a storage cluster (MDS+ OSS nodes) that is connected
to the campus backbone (10GigE or so) and each cluster has edge LNET
RDMA routers into the internal cluster network.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.