Hi Michael, If you have a moment, I am interested in hearing why you are (or considering) moving away from Lustre?
Thanks! On Oct 12, 2010, at 4:13 PM, Michael Robbert wrote: > Lana, > We at Colorado School of Mines are testing Gluster on our 268 node cluster > that is running Rocks with Infiniband. There is no Roll for it, but the RPMs > install fine when you put them in an extend-compute.xml file. We did have to > recompile from source RPMs on Rocks 4.x, but now that we've moved to Rocks > 5.x they install fine. The only hangup we had with IB was that we had to > manually load some userspace IB modules on our front end (ib_umad, ib_uverbs, > etc.). We have hit a couple of bugs with the 3.1 beta code, but we're getting > them worked out. I found it very easy to setup a test deployment and > encourage you to give it a try. It is much easier to setup than Lustre which > is what we're using in production right now, but it doesn't have all the > features. If it meets your needs though then it is probably a much better > solution for small to medium sites. > > Good Luck, > Mike Robbert > > On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:45 AM, Lana Deere wrote: > >> Is anyone using Gluster with the Rocks cluster system? If so, do you >> know if there is a Roll for Gluster? Or, do you have any advice about >> things to do and things to avoid doing? >> >> We're considering using Gluster with Infiniband on our cluster and >> trying to learn whether other people have done this so we can perhaps >> learn from their experience. >> >> Thanks. >> >> .. Lana ([email protected]) >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list [email protected] http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
