[Lustre-discuss] Lustre On Two Clusters

[Michael Kluge]

Hi Mark,

I remember that the NRL used them. They had a couple of presentations at 
the Lustre User Group. Here is some pretty old stuff:
http://wiki.lustre.org/images/3/3a/JamesHoffman.pdf


Regards, Michael


Am 09.05.2013 17:15, schrieb Mr. Mark L. Dotson (Contractor):
> Thanks, Lee.
>
> Has anyone done any work with Lustre and IB WAN extenders? I need help
> with my configuration.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
> On 05/08/13 11:03, Lee, Brett wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: lustre-discuss-bounces at lists.lustre.org [mailto:lustre-discuss-
>>> bounces at lists.lustre.org] On Behalf Of Mr. Mark L. Dotson (Contractor)
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 9:16 AM
>>> To: lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
>>> Subject: [Lustre-discuss] Lustre On Two Clusters
>>>
>>> I have Lustre installed and working on 1 cluster. Everything is IB. I can mount
>>> clients in this cluster with no problems. I want to mount this Lustre FS on
>>> another cluster that is attached to a separate IB switch.
>>> What's the best way to do this? Does it require a separate subnet for the IB
>>> interfaces, or does it matter?
>>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> Good to hear from you on the list.
>>
>> Regarding your question, a couple options jump out at me.
>>
>> 1.  Add additional interfaces to the servers.  This will allow the Lustre servers to be on both IB networks, and able to directly serve the file system to the clients.
>> 2.  Use LNet router(s), the basics of which is documented in the operations manuals.
>>
>> Either way, you'll need to perform some network configuration in (at least) the servers "lustre.conf".
>>
>> -Brett
>>
>>>
>>> Currently, my /etc/modprobe.d/lustre.conf has the following:
>>>
>>> options lnet networks="o2ib0(ib0)"
>>>
>>> Lustre version is 2.3
>>> OS's are CentOS 6.4.
>>>
>>> Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
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>>> Mark Dotson
>>> Systems Administrator
>>> Lockheed-Martin
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>>
>> --
>> Brett Lee
>> Sr. Systems Engineer
>> Intel High Performance Data Division
>>
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