[lustre-discuss] Announce: Lustre Systems Administration Guide

[Stu Midgley]

Thank you both for the documentation.  I know how hard it is to maintain.

I've asked that all my admin staff to read it - even if some of it doesn't
directly apply to our environment.

What we would like is ell organised, comprehensive, accurate and up to date
documenation.  Most of the time when I dive into the manual, or other
online material, I find it isn't quite right (path's slightly wrong or
outdated etc).  I also have difficulty finding all the information I want
in a single location and in a logical fashon.  These aren't new issues and
blight all documentation, but having the definitive source in a wiki might
open it up to more transparency, greater use and thus, ultimately, being
kept up to date, even if its by others outside Intel.

I'd also like a section where people can post their experiences and
solutions.  For example, in recent times, we have battled bad interactions
with ZFS+lustre which lead to poor performance and ZFS corruption.  While
we have now tuned both lustre and zfs and the bugs have mostly been fixed,
the learnings, trouble shooting methods etc. should be preserved and might
assist others in the future diagnose tricky problems.

That's my 5c.



On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 6:03 AM, Dilger, Andreas <andreas.dilger at intel.com>
wrote:

> On Nov 16, 2017, at 22:41, Cowe, Malcolm J <malcolm.j.cowe at intel.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I am pleased to announce the availability of a new systems
> administration guide for the Lustre file system, which has been published
> to wiki.lustre.org. The content can be accessed directly from the front
> page of the wiki, or from the following URL:
> >
> > http://wiki.lustre.org/Category:Lustre_Systems_Administration
> >
> > The guide is intended to provide comprehensive instructions for the
> installation and configuration of production-ready Lustre storage clusters.
> Topics covered:
> >
> >       • Introduction to Lustre
> >       • Lustre File System Components
> >       • Lustre Software Installation
> >       • Lustre Networking (LNet)
> >       • LNet Router Configuration
> >       • Lustre Object Storage Devices (OSDs)
> >       • Creating Lustre File System Services
> >       • Mounting a Lustre File System on Client Nodes
> >       • Starting and Stopping Lustre Services
> >       • Lustre High Availability
> >
> > Refer to the front page of the guide for the complete table of contents.
>
> Malcolm,
> thanks so much for your work on this.  It is definitely improving the
> state of the documentation available today.
>
> I was wondering if people have an opinion on whether we should remove
> some/all of the administration content from the Lustre Operations Manual,
> and make that more of a reference manual that contains details of
> commands, architecture, features, etc. as a second-level reference from
> the wiki admin guide?
>
> For that matter, should we export the XML Manual into the wiki and
> leave it there?  We'd have to make sure that the wiki is being indexed
> by Google for easier searching before we could do that.
>
> Cheers, Andreas
>
> > In addition, for people who are new to Lustre, there is a high-level
> introduction to Lustre concepts, available as a PDF download:
> >
> > http://wiki.lustre.org/images/6/64/LustreArchitecture-v4.pdf
> >
> >
> > Malcolm Cowe
> > High Performance Data Division
> >
> > Intel Corporation | www.intel.com
> >
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>
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Lustre Principal Architect
> Intel Corporation
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