[Lustre-discuss] How to install Lustre onto LVM?

[Daire Byrne]

Andrea,

----- "Andrea Rucks" <andrea.rucks at us.lawson.com> wrote:

> And thank you for taking the time to answer. Your reply is absolutely
> brilliant and what I'd hope for (it's exactly what I need to present
> my case to the business). We're not live, let's recreate and bring on
> board these additional LVM features! Give me some new SAN data disks
> for building up LVM, I'll build it alongside the old SAN data disks,
> transfer the MDT data and then drop the old SAN. This is faster and
> more efficient than using our SAN vendor's migration solution for the
> data disks (I still have to use it for the OS disk though, but
> rebuilding with LVm is still a time savings and a known procedure).
> 
> Cheers and many thanks again, Daire,

No problem. Thanks for interesting description of your infrastructure -
I always like to hear how others are using Lustre (and Xen).

Daire