Hi Trevor, Thanks for the well define explanation.
I see that you have a successful testing with Lustre cluster in ESXi. In my case I was more of hoping to use Lustre as an alternate storage for ESXi instead of expensive SAN. While I am aware and have a couple of successful deployment of ESX with external NFS storage (VMWare allows to mount NFS store from within vCenter), but I am not able to mount Lustre storage. I see this as an excuse to buy expensive SAN to increase storage capacity. Regards Beh On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Trevor Hargraves <hargt...@isu.edu> wrote: > Hi Beh, > > I have no experience with Lustre and NFS, but this past spring (are we out > of it yet?) ;) I had the chance to learn a lot about Lustre as I chose it > to be the subject of a term paper for the college I am attending. I decided > an hands on approach was the best way and started out with 3 nodes and > tried to get things running. Being inexperienced with this wonderful > system, I get blowing things up and running my install of CentOS. I decided > to purchase a server big enough to support a 6 node Lustre cluster in > VMware ESXi 5.0 update 2. I have each client, the OSS, and MDT running on > their own drives on a Gb network. I am astonished with the performance that > I am seeing with this setup and am very pleased with how it runs. I am > going to add some physical machines to this setup here in the near future > when I have a few more minutes (I have to pay for college somehow) and then > allocate the resources from the old 4 VM clients to the MDT and OSS and see > what performance increases I see that way. I wished I had a SAN with fiber > connections to squeeze out all of the performance I could, but one day I > will try it! :) > > If you have any specific questions in regards to VMware I would be more > than happy to answer them to the best of my abilities. Once again, it runs > beautifully and I haven't seen any errors or problems since inception on > this system. I am also running CentOS 6.4 with Lustre 2.4 and collectl for > some basic statistics here and there. > > > Hope this helps in some way or another! > > Trevor Hargraves > > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Teik Hooi Beh <th...@thbeh.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have just recently started to test Lustre and even with a small 2 nodes >> deployment, I find the performance is outstanding on 1Gb networking. >> >> I was trying to search through the list for anything that could help me >> to mount using NFS protocol but could not find anything. >> >> Is that possible or have anyone done that before? I am in particular >> interested if anyone have use Lustre with VMware. I am currently testing on >> 2.1.5. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Regards >> Beh >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Lustre-discuss mailing list >> Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org >> http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss >> >> > > > -- > > Thanks, > > Trevor Hargraves >
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