[lustre-discuss] Rhel 7 or centos 7 for lustre mds and oss

[Peter Kjellström]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 08:23:13 -0700
Brian Andrus <toomuchit at gmail.com> wrote:

> That choice is mainly between the need for direct support or not.

+1
 
> CentOS is considered the exact same as RHEL except for the branding. 
> However, there is no commercially available support for it.
> 
> I would say, in a nutshell, if you have someone who is knowledgeable 
> about building kernel modules, go with CentOS.
> If your system is mission critical or will be, go with RHEL

I agree but would add that if support is found to be of interest then
one may want to consider it in a wider context. As in lustre support
and/or os support? What do you want from the os support? Include EUS
or similar?

/Peter K
 
> Brian Andrus
..
> On 10/18/2017 2:59 AM, Amjad Syed wrote:
> > Hello
> > We are in process of purchasing a new lustre filesystem for our
> > site that will be used for life sciences and genomics.
> > We would like to know if we should buy rhel license or go wit
> > centos. We will be storing and using dna samples for analysis here.