My company having multple cluters running on nfs. we would like to test lustre file system in our cluster. we are using Netapp for storage. i went through lot of lustre docs , most of them are talking about local HD storage(OST). may i know how can i implement lustre using Netapp as storage(OST)? Regards, Muhammed navas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.lustre.org/pipermail/lustre-discuss/attachments/20091122/8e01859d/attachment.html
On 2009-11-21, at 23:53, muhammed navas wrote:> My company having multple cluters running on nfs. we would like to > test lustre file system in our cluster. we are using Netapp for > storage. i went through lot of lustre docs , most of them are > talking about local HD storage(OST). may i know how can i implement > lustre using Netapp as storage(OST)?This isn''t really possible. Netapp servers are exporting NFS protocol already, and that isn''t what Lustre can use. The benefit of Lustre is that you can instead use much less expensive commodity servers to provide the storage, and Lustre will export it as a single filesystem to clients. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
If your netapp appliance has feasibility of exporting volumes as iscsi then you have a chance On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:23 PM, muhammed navas <navasonline at gmail.com>wrote:> My company having multple cluters running on nfs. we would like to test > lustre file system in our cluster. we are using Netapp for storage. i went > through lot of lustre docs , most of them are talking about local HD > storage(OST). may i know how can i implement lustre using Netapp as > storage(OST)? > > > > > Regards, > Muhammed navas > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > Lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > >-- Regards-- Rishi Pathak National PARAM Supercomputing Facility Center for Development of Advanced Computing(C-DAC) Pune University Campus,Ganesh Khind Road Pune-Maharastra -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.lustre.org/pipermail/lustre-discuss/attachments/20091123/8d83c3b4/attachment.html
I don''t think that would be particularly sane to use iscsi imho. Ontap 8.0 does have have clustered mode which allows a number of systems to have a single name space and load balance between a number of servers. From the Announcement they sent round in September. Data ONTAP 8.0 is the first release of the Data ONTAP 8 release family. It is a single codebase, with two separately orderable products: Data ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode: The next release of Data ONTAP 7G (after 7.3.x) Data ONTAP 8.0 Cluster-Mode: The next release of Data ONTAP GX (after 10.0.x) The RCx classification indicates that NetApp has completed its internal testing of the release. RCs are provided primarily to enable customers who want to start early on exploring the release for either new features or bug fixes, or who want to start testing the release before deploying it in critical production environments. NetApp may provide multiple RCs as is necessary to address specific issues found before the release becomes a General Availability (GA) release. NetApp Global Services (NGS) provides support for RCs. On 23 Nov 2009, at 13:27, rishi pathak wrote:> If your netapp appliance has feasibility of exporting volumes as > iscsi then you have a chance > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:23 PM, muhammed navas <navasonline at gmail.com > > wrote: > My company having multple cluters running on nfs. we would like to > test lustre file system in our cluster. we are using Netapp for > storage. i went through lot of lustre docs , most of them are > talking about local HD storage(OST). may i know how can i implement > lustre using Netapp as storage(OST)? >-- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.lustre.org/pipermail/lustre-discuss/attachments/20091123/5ce5883d/attachment.html
You can not directly use netapp appliance, first of all you should enable FC license on netapp than you need a Fiber channel switch like "cisco mds" o brocade, than you have to connect cisco o brocade to netapp FC ports; and last but not list you need computer with fiber channel connection, directly connected to FC switch, that mount netapp LUN, and so you can implement LUSTRE using a netapp like one o more ost cheers, Antonio rishi pathak wrote:> If your netapp appliance has feasibility of exporting volumes as iscsi > then you have a chance > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:23 PM, muhammed navas > <navasonline at gmail.com <mailto:navasonline at gmail.com>> wrote: > > My company having multple cluters running on nfs. we would like to > test lustre file system in our cluster. we are using Netapp for > storage. i went through lot of lustre docs , most of them are > talking about local HD storage(OST). may i know how can i > implement lustre using Netapp as storage(OST)? > > > > > Regards, > Muhammed navas > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > Lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org > <mailto:Lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org> > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > > > > > -- > Regards-- > Rishi Pathak > National PARAM Supercomputing Facility > Center for Development of Advanced Computing(C-DAC) > Pune University Campus,Ganesh Khind Road > Pune-Maharastra > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > Lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss >