Re: [Lustre-discuss] Clustered MDS & OSS Servers

2010-01-19 Thread Tina Friedrich
Virtual IP will not work at all. We've tried it, though not for failover. Lustre basically implements/handles it's own networking, remember. Tina Jagga Soorma wrote: > How would the OSS's and client's communicate with the MDS server in a > failover situation? > > This is how I am doing things

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Clustered MDS & OSS Servers

2010-01-19 Thread Jagga Soorma
How would the OSS's and client's communicate with the MDS server in a failover situation? This is how I am doing things: mds01: mkfs.lustre --fsname=fsname --mdt --mgs /dev/vgname/lvname oss01: mkfs.lustre --ost --fsname=fsname --failnode=os...@o2ib3--mgsnode=mds01@o2ib3/dev/mapper/mpath0 oss02:

Re: [Lustre-discuss] Clustered MDS & OSS Servers

2010-01-19 Thread Andreas Dilger
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).

[Lustre-discuss] Clustered MDS & OSS Servers

2010-01-18 Thread Jagga Soorma
Hi Guys, 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 mk