Lustre discuss - Nov 2009 - Help: IP SAN deployment

Hi all,

I will build a small HPC clusters for bioinformatics with 48 nodes.
And because of lacking of budget I have to choose IP SAN as our
storage solution. I''m going to use iSCSI running on Linux. All data is
on the storage(iSCSI target).

And I have some questions to deploy Lustre on iSCSI. Is there any
special configuration on target and initiator? Could any one show me
some cases about such deployments?

Thank you very much.

Best Regards,

Amy Lee

On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 23:18 +0800, Lee Amy wrote: 
> Hi all,
Hi,
> And I have some questions to deploy Lustre on iSCSI. Is there any
> special configuration on target and initiator? Could any one show me
> some cases about such deployments?
Lustre wants a block device.  That''s all there is to it.  How you get
iSCSI targets to appear as block devices on Linux really has nothing to
do with Lustre.  Once you have iSCSI targets as block devices on Linux,
you just tell Lustre to use them.

You might get some iSCSI help on this list, but I don''t think the
number
of iSCSI Lustre deployments is high (compared with direct storage) and
you might find a more iSCSI-targeted list more fruitful.

b.


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