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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ho Patrick,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks for the reply….The application those are going to be used are like Ansys, Abaqus and some of these kind, which only supports up to RHEL 7.4, whereas Lustre 2.12 supports only 7.6.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>That is the reason I am planning to use Lustre 2.12 on Lustre server & Lustre 2.11 on Lustre clients.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Parag<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Patrick Farrell [mailto:pfarrell@whamcloud.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March , 2019 1:37 AM<br><b>To:</b> Parag Khuraswar; 'Lustre discussion'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [lustre-discuss] Lustre client 2.11.0 with Lustre server lustre-2.12.0-ib<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Parag,<br><br>I would be interested to know more about the application compatibility issues, but you should be OK with 2.11 clients and a 2.12 server. In general, newer clients are tested with older servers, much the other way around, but especially with adjacent major releases you should be fine.<br><br>- Patrick <o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="98%" align=center></div><div id=divRplyFwdMsg><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> lustre-discuss <lustre-discuss-bounces@lists.lustre.org> on behalf of Parag Khuraswar <parag_k@citilindia.com><br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 2, 2019 8:07:32 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'Lustre discussion'<br><b>Subject:</b> [lustre-discuss] Lustre client 2.11.0 with Lustre server lustre-2.12.0-ib</span> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=xmsonormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal>Due to some application compatibility issues I have to use “lustre-2.12.0-ib” on Lustre server side and “Lustre client 2.11.0” on Lustre client side.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal>Is there any issue if I use two different Lustre version’s on Lustre server & client side ?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Parag</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>