[Lustre-discuss] Fwd: Lustre Thumper Fault Tolerance

Craig Tierney Craig.Tierney at noaa.gov
Thu Mar 6 09:00:26 PST 2008


Brennan wrote:
> Forwarding.
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>> *From: *Brennan <James.E.Brennan at Sun.COM <mailto:James.E.Brennan at Sun.COM>>
>> *Date: *March 6, 2008 2:36:44 AM PST
>> *To: *lustre-solutions at sun.com <mailto:lustre-solutions at sun.com>, 
>> hpc-aces at sun.com <mailto:hpc-aces at sun.com>, hpc-storage at sun.com 
>> <mailto:hpc-storage at sun.com>, lustre-discuss at sun.com 
>> <mailto:lustre-discuss at sun.com>
>> *Subject: **Lustre Thumper Fault Tolerance*
>>
>> IHAC that wants about 150 TB usable of Thumpers+Lustre specifically to 
>> feed a compute cluster and use SAMFS to go to an SL3000.
>> They want the Lustre filesystem to be at least single fault tolerant 
>> for a complete Thumper failure. They are willing to double the number of
>> Thumpers to achieve this. What are the best practices for this 
>> configuration?
>>
>> Jim Brennan
>> Digital Media Systems
>> Sun Systems Group
>> Universal City, CA
>> (310)901-8677
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>


Why not use another Sun product other than Thumper to build a failover
solution?  Why not use the 6140's in pairs with the servers to get redundancy.
Is this still more expensive than buying 2x Thumper nodes?

Craig


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Craig Tierney (craig.tierney at noaa.gov)



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