Re: [Lustre-discuss] How smart is Lustre?

2012-12-19 Thread Philippe Weill
Le 19/12/2012 22:38, Dilger, Andreas a écrit : > On 2012-12-19, at 11:22, "Allen, Benjamin > S"mailto:b...@lanl.gov>> wrote: > > Hi Jason, > > 2. Having two paths to your storage should speed things up. I'm guessing > you'd have more than one LUN on the array, > so you could do something as simp

Re: [Lustre-discuss] LNET over multiple NICs

2012-12-19 Thread Faccini, Bruno
If you are back with the bounding solution, you may have to be careful with and aware of the available/configured mode/policy on all ends (including on intermediate switches for some modes) !!… Le Dec 19, 2012 à 11:03 PM, Alexander Oltu a écrit : > >> I have no experience in doing multirail o

Re: [Lustre-discuss] LNET over multiple NICs

2012-12-19 Thread Alexander Oltu
> I have no experience in doing multirail on ethernet, sorry. The > principle is exactly the same as for Infiniband, but as Infiniband > interfaces cannot be bonded (except for IPoIB which is not of > interest when considering performance), I cannot tell. Looks like --network option is not hel

Re: [Lustre-discuss] How smart is Lustre?

2012-12-19 Thread Dilger, Andreas
On 2012-12-19, at 11:22, "Allen, Benjamin S" mailto:b...@lanl.gov>> wrote: Hi Jason, 2. Having two paths to your storage should speed things up. I'm guessing you'd have more than one LUN on the array, so you could do something as simple as splitting the LUNs between the two paths, or use round

Re: [Lustre-discuss] How smart is Lustre?

2012-12-19 Thread Allen, Benjamin S
Hi Jason, 1. You provide Lustre, when formatting with mkfs.lustre, a standard block device. If you want Lustre to use the multi-pathed device, you'll need to setup Linux MPIO, then use the multi-pathed device path. Failover between redundant OSS or MDS is not controlled by Lustre either. You w

Re: [Lustre-discuss] How smart is Lustre?

2012-12-19 Thread Philippe Weill
Le 19/12/2012 18:36, Jason Brooks a écrit : > Hello, > > I am building a 2.3.x filesystem right now, and I am looking at setting up > some active-active > failover abilities to my oss's. I have been looking at Dell's md3xxx arrays, > as they have redundant > controllers, and allow up to four host

[Lustre-discuss] How smart is Lustre?

2012-12-19 Thread Jason Brooks
Hello, I am building a 2.3.x filesystem right now, and I am looking at setting up some active-active failover abilities to my oss's. I have been looking at Dell's md3xxx arrays, as they have redundant controllers, and allow up to four hosts to connect to each controller. I can see how linux m

Re: [Lustre-discuss] LNET over multiple NICs

2012-12-19 Thread Sébastien Buisson
Hi, Le 18/12/2012 19:27, Alexander Oltu a écrit : > This is one of OSSes: > [root@oss1 ~]# lctl list_nids > 192.168.110.21@tcp > 192.168.111.21@tcp1 > > This is one of the clients: > nid00030:~ # lctl list_nids > 192.168.110.101@tcp > 192.168.111.101@tcp1 Everything seems fine. > > Thank you for