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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">What are the best practices of implementing Lustre in a
virtualized environment (Cloud) specifically when there are no shared-disks
(multipath) nor a remote ability to shut down a node (e.g. IPMI.)<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The major issue would be setting up the MGS without
the shared-disk MGT.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">There are discussions of using DRBD and some think I should
setup an iSCSI target, perhaps also for Fencing.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Similarly, Pacemaker with corosync has been discussed, but
the options are enormous.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">It is important that there be no single point of failure and
any outage be repairable as automatically as possible.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thoughts?<span></span></p>
<div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Paul Hergt<br></div><a href="mailto:paul.hergt@gmail.com" target="_blank">paul.hergt@gmail.com</a><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>