Thank you for your response and help. I'll go check out those references.
On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 9:47 PM Andreas Dilger <[email protected]> wrote: > > -What does the minimum configuration look like? > Example Minimum MDS/MDT, OSS/OST, what does that look like from a minimum > storage capacity perspective? > > > Few people care about *minimum* limits. It is possible to format Lustre > with a single 32MB MDT and 32MB OST, and mount both and a client on a 2GB > VM. This can be used for functional testing but isn't really useful for > much beyond that. > > -What is the maximum capacity a Lustre cluster can scale? (I have done > some math and have come to 1EB max storage capacity) > > > You can find most of the limits in the Lustre Operations Manual: > > https://doc.lustre.org/lustre_manual.xhtml#settinguplustresystem.tab2 > > -What is a reasonable read/write throughput performance for the cluster? > -Same question for R/W IOPs? > > > and performance ranges in: > > https://doc.lustre.org/lustre_manual.xhtml#idm139922676214400 > > The performance is *very* variable depending on the hardware, so there > isn't a reasonable generic answer to that question. > > There are performance numbers for specific hardware: > > > https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/11/10/ddn-doubles-performance-of-high-end-ai-array/ > > -Does Lustre support snapshots? > > > On ZFS it does. On ldiskfs this is under development. > > (I know there is a reference to this and many of my questions on the Wiki > page hosted at wiki.lustre.org but I keep getting an error that it is > down) > > > It looks like the SSL certificate expired. > > -What are the protocols supported by Lustre? I know it supports a POSIX > client but how is it supporting NFS and SMB? It looks like it is sharing > the ZFS pool via NFS, but again the wiki is down and can't access it. > > > Lustre primarily has its own network protocol, but by virtue of exposing > POSIX to user space can also be re-exported via NFS and SMB, though at > reduced performance compared to native clients. > > Cheers, Andreas > >
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