<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>The minimum number of nodes required to setup a fully functional lustre file system is 1. Lustre itself is designed to run across hundreds / thousands of nodes, so your scale will depend on your project and hardware arability.</div><div><br></div><div>The most basic setup you can get away with is simply to install all lustre server RPM's (available from intel) as well as the test suite, within the test suite there is a script called llmount.sh this will generate a simple, loop device based single node file system you can play around with.</div><div><br></div><div>If you want to explore more complicated setup, you could start with a kvm based cluster: <a href="http://wiki.lustre.org/KVM_Quick_Start_Guide">http://wiki.lustre.org/KVM_Quick_Start_Guide</a></div><div><br></div><div>Good luck.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 2:30 AM, Aditya Sarma <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asaditya1195@gmail.com" target="_blank">asaditya1195@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello all!<br><br>I was wondering if I could get some help in setting up and using the lustre parallel file system for a project that I'm working on. Can any one point out the prerequisites required and the process to be followed to setup and use the lustre file system? <br><br>Information like What operating system to use?, how many minimum number of nodes are required? and how to go about the installation would be invaluable to me.<br><br>Thanks!<br>Aditya<br><span class="m_5084139664215673638mt-tool-email-notification-false"></span><span class="m_5084139664215673638mt-tool-email-tracking-true"></span><br><br><br><img width="0" height="0" class="m_5084139664215673638mailtrack-img" src="https://mailtrack.io/trace/mail/b4080dbeba4578b13d1336432c817ddeeb29a4b7.png?u=1047770"></div>
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