[Lustre-discuss] Setting up a lustre test environment

[Colin Faber]

Hi,

On 09/09/2011 12:43 PM, Kristen J. Webb wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am new to Luster and want to set up a test system using 2.1.
"LUSTRE"  =)
> Since this is a test environment, I'm willing to go
> bleeding edge and feedback my experiences to the community.
>
> 1. Any significant problems using CentOS vs. RHEL?
None.
> 2. Any problems using vmware (fusion on OSX to be exact) for test
> clients and servers?
Possible timing issues. Make sure you have vmware tools setup and 
timesync enabled otherwise you can run into some bizarreness.

> 3. I was unable to get a clear answer trying to google
> inkernel vs. ofa.  Is ofa only needed for infiniband?
Yes
> 4. For initial testing, any problems with installing all
> of the lustre modules onto a single system?
No, this is commonly used approach to `smoke testing' using the lustre 
test suite.
> Thank you very much in advance!
>
> Kris
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