[Lustre-discuss] Fwd: Simple servers as storage nodes

Brian J. Murrell Brian.Murrell at Sun.COM
Thu Mar 26 12:28:04 PDT 2009


On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 18:58 +0200, Stas Oskin wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Can anyone tell if regular servers can be used as the storage nodes?

A whitebox PC with an IDE disk in it *could* be a Lustre server, yes.
It won't be a well performing server though and it won't enjoy the
benefits of Lustre's failover abilities.

> Or any other solution (SAN/NAS) has to be used as the storage space?

Shared storage enables a failover configuration to be built.  Non-shared
storage doesn't.

b.


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