[Lustre-discuss] Lustre Level I training will be offered on July 15-17, 2008 in San Jose

[Karen Li]

Lustre Administration & Support Level I training will be offered on July 
15-17, 2008 in San Jose, CA.

*Registration*
Please call Sun Registration at 800-422-8020 and indicate the course 
number 252453.

*Price*
US$2,400 for 3 days of in-depth technical hands-on instruction

*Course Content*
Module 1.0 - Introduction
   * Course organization
   * Handouts
   * Exam
   * Introductions
   * Rules

Module 1.1 - Understanding Lustre
   * What is Lustre?
   * Systems in a Lustre cluster
   * Lustre features
   * Networking options
   * Modules
   * Where are the files?
   * Striping
   * File I/O protocol

Module 1.2 - Architecting Lustre Clusters
   * Understanding requirements
   * Server hardware
   * Node count and size
   * Networking
   * Storage and throughput

Module 2.1 - Configuring Lustre 1.6
   * Releases and features
   * Principles
   * Examples
   * Failover
   * Management

Module 2.2 - Configuring Lustre 1.4
   * Installing and compiling
   * Configuration
   * Starting / stopping clients, services
   * Changing configurations

Module 3.1 - Troubleshooting
   * Methodology
   * General actions
   * Generating debug information
   * Stuck modules
   * Network troubleshooting
   * Dealing with full OSTs
   * Failed OSTs
   * Recovery
   * Storage failures
   * Working at scale
   * Understanding error messages

Module 3.2 - Advanced Profiling
   * Tools and statistics
   * I/O performance - fragmentation
   * I/O performance - I/O kit
   * I/O tunables
   * Understanding metadata performance
   * Metadata tuning

Questions regarding Lustre courses can be sent to lustre-training at sun.com
Thank you!