[lustre-discuss] Getting started with Lustre on RHEL 8.8

[Cyberxstudio cxs]

Thanks for the tip!

On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 9:49 AM Andreas Dilger <adilger at whamcloud.com>
wrote:

> On Sep 12, 2023, at 22:31, Cyberxstudio cxs <cyberxstudio.cloud at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
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> Hi I get this error while installing lustre and other packages
>
> [root at localhost ~]# yum --nogpgcheck --enablerepo=lustre-server install \
> > kmod-lustre-osd-ldiskfs \
> > lustre-dkms \
> > lustre-osd-ldiskfs-mount \
> > lustre-osd-zfs-mount \
> > lustre \
> > lustre-resource-agents \
> > zfs
> Updating Subscription Management repositories.
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:58 ago on Wed 13 Sep 2023 09:27:59 AM
> PKT.
> Error:
>  Problem: conflicting requests
>   - nothing provides resource-agents needed by
> lustre-resource-agents-2.15.3-1.el8.x86_64
> (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest'
> to use not only best candidate packages)
>
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> You don't need this package to start. It is used for HA failover of
> storage between servers with Corosync/Pacemaker.
>
> You also do not need the "lustre-dkms" package - that is for building
> Lustre clients from scratch.
>
> You also only need one of ldiskfs or ZFS.  If you don't have RAID storage,
> then ZFS is probably more useful,
> while ldiskfs is more of a 'traditional" filesystem (based on ext4).
>
> Cheers, Andreas
>
> [root at localhost ~]# dnf install resource-agents
> Updating Subscription Management repositories.
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:02:01 ago on Wed 13 Sep 2023 09:27:59 AM
> PKT.
> No match for argument: resource-agents
> Error: Unable to find a match: resource-agents
> [root at localhost ~]#
>
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 9:10 AM Cyberxstudio cxs <
> cyberxstudio.cloud at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for the information.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 8:40 PM Andreas Dilger <adilger at whamcloud.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> The preferred path to set up Lustre depends on what you are planning to
>>> do with it?  If for regular usage it is easiest to start with RPMs built
>>> for the distro from
>>> https://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/latest-release/
>>> <https://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/latest-release/el8.8/server/RPMS/x86_64/> (you
>>> can also use the server RPMs for a client if you want).
>>>
>>> The various "client" packages for RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu can install
>>> directly on the vendor kernels, but the provided server RPMs also need the
>>> matching kernel.  You only need one of the ldiskfs (ext4) or ZFS packages,
>>> not both.
>>>
>>> It isn't *necessary* to build/patch your kernel for the server, though
>>> the pre-built server download packages have patched the kernel to add
>>> integrated T10-PI support (which many users do not need).  You can get
>>> unpatched el8 server RPMs directly from the builders:
>>>
>>> https://build.whamcloud.com/job/lustre-b2_15-patchless/48/arch=x86_64,build_type=server,distro=el8.7,ib_stack=inkernel/artifact/artifacts/
>>>
>>> If you plan to run on non-standard kernels, then you can build RPMs for
>>> your particular kernel. The easiest way is to just rebuild the SPRM package:
>>>  https://wiki.whamcloud.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=8556211
>>>
>>> If you want to do Lustre development you should learn how to build from
>>> a Git checkout:
>>> https://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Building+Lustre+from+Source
>>>
>>> Cheers, Andreas
>>>
>>> On Sep 12, 2023, at 03:25, Cyberxstudio cxs via lustre-discuss <
>>> lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>> Hi, I am setting up a lab environment for lustre. I have 3 VMs of RHEL
>>> 8.8, I have studied the documentation but it does not provide detail for el
>>> 8 rather el 7. Please guide me how to start
>>> Thank You
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>>>
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
> Lustre Principal Architect
> Whamcloud
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