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Subject: Re: [lustre-discuss] Designing a new Lustre system
Last I looked at Isilon, it serializes parallel writes to a single file.
Ultimately, the data is striped across multiple data servers but it all
channels through a single data server. If you only have file-per-process
workloads, and
Last I looked at Isilon, it serializes parallel writes to a single file.
Ultimately, the data is striped across multiple data servers but it all
channels through a single data server. If you only have file-per-process
workloads, and you have a lot of money, then Isilon is considered a solid
enterp
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 8:21 AM, E.S. Rosenberg
wrote:
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> 4. One of my colleagues likes Isilon very much, I have not been able to
> find any literature on if/how Lustre compares any pointers/knowledge on the
> subject is very welcome.
>
>
I haven't looked at Isilon in a while, but my recollectio
Thanks for all the great answers!
Still looking for more info for #4...
Thanks again,
Eli
On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 12:26 AM, Mohr Jr, Richard Frank (Rick Mohr) <
rm...@utk.edu> wrote:
> My $0.02 below.
>
> > On Dec 20, 2017, at 11:21 AM, E.S. Rosenberg
> wrote:
> >
> > 1. After my recent experi
My $0.02 below.
> On Dec 20, 2017, at 11:21 AM, E.S. Rosenberg
> wrote:
>
> 1. After my recent experience with failover I wondered is there any reason
> not to set all machines that are within reasonable cable range as potential
> failover nodes so that in the very unlikely event of both mach
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Subject: [lustre-discuss] Designing a new Lustre system
Hi everyone,
We are currently looking into upgrading/replacing our Lustre system with a
newer system.
I had several ideas I'd like to run by you and also some questions:
1. After my recent experience with failover I wondered is there any reason
not to set all machines that are within reasonable c
