Re: [lustre-discuss] [HPDD-discuss] Lustre Server Sizing

2015-07-21 Thread Scott Nolin
An important question is what performance do they have now, and what do they expect if converting it to Lustre. Our more basically, what are they looking for in general in changing? The performance requirements may help drive your OSS numbers for example, or interconnect, and all kinds of stuf

Re: [lustre-discuss] [HPDD-discuss] Lustre Server Sizing

2015-07-21 Thread Indivar Nair
Hi Scott, The 3 - SAN Storages with 240 disks each has its own 3 NAS Headers (NAS Appliances). However, even with 240 10K RPM disk and RAID50, it is only providing around 1.2 - 1.4GB/s per NAS Header. There is no clustered file system, and each NAS Header has its own file-system. It uses some cus

Re: [lustre-discuss] [HPDD-discuss] Lustre Server Sizing

2015-07-21 Thread Jeff Johnson
Indivar, Since your CIFS or NFS gateways operate as Lustre clients there can be issues with running multiple NFS or CIFS gateway machines frontending the same Lustre filesystem. As Lustre clients there are no issues in terms of file locking but the NFS and CIFS caching and multi-client file access

Re: [lustre-discuss] [HPDD-discuss] Lustre Server Sizing

2015-07-21 Thread Cowe, Malcolm J
involves Windows machines. Malcolm. From: lustre-discuss [mailto:lustre-discuss-boun...@lists.lustre.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Johnson Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 5:54 AM To: Indivar Nair Cc: lustre-discuss Subject: Re: [lustre-discuss] [HPDD-discuss] Lustre Server Sizing Indivar, Since your CIFS