On 2010-01-19, at 13:01, Jagga Soorma wrote: > I am working on clustering our MDS & OSS servers and wanted to make > sure I understand this correctly. Can you please let me know if > this sounds right: > > a) Planning on having a floating virtual IP setup on the active MDS > server (ib1:1). This is what the OSS's will use when doing their > mkfs. In an outage this virtual IP address will migrate to the > standby node.
This is not how Lustre failover works. You need to assign a separate IP address for each MDS server. Lustre handles multiple MDS failover nodes itself. > b) On the oss's there is no need for a virtual IP that would need to > fail over in an outage. I would simply have heartbeat mount the > filesystems on the other OSS node. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
