Re: [Lustre-discuss] Virtualization and Lustre
On 05/20/2010 08:03 PM, Tyler Hawes wrote: Has there been any testing or conclusions regarding the use of virtualization and Lustre, or is this even possible considering how Lustre is coded? I've gotten used to the idea of virtualization for all our other servers, where it is great to know we can mount the image on another host very quickly if a hardware problem brings down a machine, and it seems the same would be nice with Lustre... Tyler Hawes Lit Post www.litpost.com We do virtualization routinely. Should be no issues. In fact, use of KVM/VMware/Virtual box for local testing is quite common among Lustre devs. However, we really like to be close to the metal for performance reasons. I would not use visualization in a production environment where performance was crucial. I am also not certain how well high-performance networking does in a virtual server - we make heavy use of RDMA when available. cliffw ___ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss ___ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
Re: [Lustre-discuss] Virtualization and Lustre
Hi, On Friday 21 May 2010 05:03:20 am Tyler Hawes wrote: Has there been any testing or conclusions regarding the use of virtualization and Lustre, or is this even possible considering how Lustre is coded? I've gotten used to the idea of virtualization for all our other servers, where it is great to know we can mount the image on another host very quickly if a hardware problem brings down a machine, and it seems the same would be nice with Lustre... I do this for the MGS and MDS hosts in our cluster on SLES 11. Just took the xen kernel and applied the patches and built rpms like it is described in the manual. My OSS servers are configured with lustre failover on physical machines, managed by pacemaker. cheers, Sebastian ___ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
[Lustre-discuss] Virtualization and Lustre
Has there been any testing or conclusions regarding the use of virtualization and Lustre, or is this even possible considering how Lustre is coded? I've gotten used to the idea of virtualization for all our other servers, where it is great to know we can mount the image on another host very quickly if a hardware problem brings down a machine, and it seems the same would be nice with Lustre... Tyler Hawes Lit Post www.litpost.com ___ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
