[Lustre-discuss] What do you think of this idea?

[David Noriega]

I just had another idea but again since I know very little about how Lustre
works, I'll need some input.

What if I take a single workstation and attach to it via iSCSI two Drobo
disk arrays. Would it be possible to run both the metadata and the object
storage off of a single machine? Two maxed out Drobo arrays gets 32TB of
space. It costs more but would this be better then adding disks to existing
workstations where we cant control the environment(ie users)?

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:01 PM, hungsheng Tsao
<hungsheng.tsao at oracle.com>wrote:

>  as playground is  fine.
> even in this type of env , IMHO, u will need to do some raid for 3x2tb ost
> and mirror  for mds
> Hope that U have enough memory and cpu power and network  for MDS and OST.
> these are dedicate for lustre, u need other compute nodes.
> regards
>
>
>
> On 5/19/2010 1:31 PM, David Noriega wrote:
>
> My supervisor has this idea and I would like the input of the
> Lustre community as we are still very new to Lustre.
>
>  We have 7 workstations, and the idea was to put into them 3 2TB drives,
> for a total of 42TB, and set them up as object servers, and another
> workstation as a meta data server. How feasible is this idea? And I know of
> the downfalls, what if a student reboots a machine, etc, but baring those
> events, would this setup work?
>
> David
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