[Lustre-discuss] lustre setup with several subnets

[Andreas Dilger]

On 2009-11-13, at 08:00, robert wrote:
> i am currently working on my first lustre setup (centos 5.2, lustre
> 1.8.1) and as it is slightly more complicated on the network side than
> the one in the quickstart guide, i am running into a few problems  
> here.
>
> *** 1. some of the oss can not mount their osts with a message to
> *** 2. the client hangs and produces errors when trying to mount ..:/ 
> lustre
>
> the setup looks like this:
>
> 1 MDS/CLIENT, having 10 (TEN) network interfaces, (six of the eths  
> used
> for lustre, the other four bonded as a cifs gateway), as this is  
> only a


You are far better off to bond the interfaces and present Lustre with  
a single bond0 interface.  Less complexity, aggregate bandwidth for  
all connections, and redundancy at the network level.

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