[Lustre-discuss] compact lustre system advice needed

[Kevin Van Maren]

Yes, it can be done (use bonded Ethernet), but with only a single  
server NFS is likely a better fit - Lustre's advantage is scaling with  
many servers.

Kevin


On Feb 26, 2009, at 5:15 PM, Stuart Marshall <stuart.l.marshall at gmail.com 
 > wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to set up a lustre service on a single machine with  
> multiple ethernet ports, multiple cpu cores and multiple disks?
>
> The idea would be that the machine would either use L4 link  
> aggregation or mulitple IP's and a modest number of clients (<10)
> would access the file system.  The MDT and >=1 OST's would not share  
> physical disks.  The motivation for this is to get the best
> performance possible for such a small collection of hosts.  In my  
> case, there would be 1 writer and multiple (asynchronous) readers.
>
> The clients would be seperate machines. The MGS/MDS/OSS's would be  
> "in" the same machine.
>
> Has this been done or discussed before?
>
> any comments welcome,
> thanks,
> Stuart
>
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