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 <[email protected] > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
