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--></style></head><body lang=EN-AU link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Hi Keith,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Many thanks for your feedback.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>We are seeking to build a SAN with no single point of failure to only host VM guest. We are big fans of ZFS and will use ZFS to replicate snapshots to Sun ZFS storage appliance in another datacentre as a backup solution.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>We are currently using HP P2000G3 with D2700 shelves and need to add more storage and don’t wish to invest any further in this SAN. We use redundant Brocade FC switching plus redundant Nexus 10G switching.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>We can use bare metal for MDS servers if required, just seeking faster way to setup POC.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> Geoff<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='color:black'>"Mannthey, Keith" <keith.mannthey@intel.com><br><b>Date: </b>Saturday, 5 January 2019 at 6:16 am<br><b>To: </b>Geoff Ferris <geoff@pdclouds.com.au>, "lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org" <lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org><br><b>Subject: </b>RE: How to guide<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><a href="http://wiki.lustre.org/Main_Page">http://wiki.lustre.org/Main_Page</a> has link for how 2 guides. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>If you are doing a bare metal Lustre OSS and VM MDS? Just for testing? </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>If your VMs are hosting Linux you should be able to mount the Lustre namespace pretty easily. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><a href="https://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Lustre+Support+Matrix">https://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Lustre+Support+Matrix</a> will show you which version of Linux Lustre has been tested with. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>I am not aware of any Oracle VM specific enablement but maybe someone else does. What are you trying to do with Lustre in your environment? </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Keith </span><o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_____replyseparator"></a><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> lustre-discuss [mailto:lustre-discuss-bounces@lists.lustre.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Geoff Ferris<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 3, 2019 11:17 PM<br><b>To:</b> lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [lustre-discuss] How to guide</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We are seeking a how to guide for building an evaluation lab.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Was thinking to create 1 x MDS VM server and 2 x OSS Physical servers for 1 x JBOD shared storage, will this work?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Finally, can client agents be installed on Oracle VM Server & Oracle VM Manager?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Geoff<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>