[Lustre-discuss] Lustre over two TCP interfaces

[Brian O'Connor]

Unless something has changed in the new versions of lustre, I don't think lustre can do failover between nids on the same machine.

It can choose the available nid at mount time, but if an active nid goes away after you are mounted then the client chooses the failover nid, and this must be on a different server.

Check the archives for more discussion in this topic :)



-----Original Message-----
From: Alfonso Pardo [alfonso.pardo at ciemat.es<mailto:alfonso.pardo at ciemat.es>]
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 07:23 AM Central Standard Time
To: Michael Shuey
Cc: WC-Discuss; lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre over two TCP interfaces

thank Michael,

This is my second step, I will change the lnet with “options lnet networks=tcp0(bond0,bond1)” because my machines has 4 nics. I have a bond0 and bond1 with LACP. I need to comunicate the clients with two network for HA network.

If the bond0 network is down, the clients can reach the OSS by the second network bond1.

If I change the modprobe with “options lnet networks=tcp0(bond0),tcp1(bond1)”, how the clients mount the filesystem to reach the OSS by two network?




From: Michael Shuey<mailto:shuey at purdue.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 2:14 PM
To: Alfonso Pardo<mailto:alfonso.pardo at ciemat.es>
Cc: lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org<mailto:lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org> ; WC-Discuss<mailto:WC-Discuss.Migration at intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre over two TCP interfaces

Different interfaces need to be declared with different LNET networks - something like "networks=tcp0(eth0),tcp1(eth1)".  Of course, that assumes your clients are configured to use a mix of tcp0 and tcp1 for connections (with each client only using one of the two).  This is really only useful in corner cases, when you're doing something strange; if eth0 and eth1 are in the same subnet (as in your example), this is almost certainly not productive.

A better bet might be to use a single LNET, and bond the two interfaces together - either as an active/passive pair, or active/active (e.g., LACP).  Then you'd declare networks=tcp0(bond0), give the bond a single IP address, and client traffic would be split across the two members in the bond more like you probably expect (given the limits of the bond protocol you're using).

--
Mike Shuey


On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Alfonso Pardo <alfonso.pardo at ciemat.es<mailto:alfonso.pardo at ciemat.es>> wrote:
hello friends,

I need to comunicate my OSS by two ethernet TCP interfaces: eth0 and eth1.

I have configured this feature in my modprobe.d with:

“options lnet networks=tcp0(eth0,eth1)”

And I can see two interfaces with:

lctl --net tcp interface_list
sa-d4-01.ceta-ciemat.es<http://sa-d4-01.ceta-ciemat.es>: (192.168.11.15/255.255.255.0<http://192.168.11.15/255.255.255.0>) npeer 0 nroute 2
sa-d4-01.ceta-ciemat.es<http://sa-d4-01.ceta-ciemat.es>: (192.168.11.35/255.255.255.0<http://192.168.11.35/255.255.255.0>) npeer 0 nroute 0

But, the clients only can communicate with the first interface:

lctl ping 192.168.11.15
12345-0 at lo
12345-192.168.11.15 at tcp
lctl ping 192.168.11.35
failed to ping 192.168.11.35 at tcp: Input/output error


Any suggestions how to “enable” the second interface?


thank in advance

Alfonso Pardo Diaz
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