Lustre discuss - Jan 2007 - Lustre 1.6 beta failover

Dear group,

I have read MountConf about Failover from below link
https://mail.clusterfs.com/wikis/lustre/MountConf#head-e479f6aad3e23c3df87cc59e46f2b0a9c390a6a3
>From Failover configuration, do I need standby node take over the IP
address of active node like traditional HA-cluster ?

from my understanding it does not.

Thank you.

Nont Banditwong wrote:
> Dear group,
>
> I have read MountConf about Failover from below link
>
https://mail.clusterfs.com/wikis/lustre/MountConf#head-e479f6aad3e23c3df87cc59e46f2b0a9c390a6a3
>
>
>> From Failover configuration, do I need standby node take over the IP
> address of active node like traditional HA-cluster ?
>
> from my understanding it does not.
>
No, IP takeover is not required or desired.  You can read more about 
failover in
other Lustre documentation; the MountConf wiki mainly describes deltas 
from 1.4.x.
https://mail.clusterfs.com/wikis/lustre/LustreDocumentation