Re: [lustre-discuss] design to enable kernel updates

2017-02-10 Thread Vicker, Darby (JSC-EG311)
darby.vicke...@nasa.gov>>, Ben Evans <bev...@cray.com<mailto:bev...@cray.com>>, "lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org<mailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org>" <lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org<mailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org>> Subject: Re: [lustre-discuss] de

Re: [lustre-discuss] design to enable kernel updates

2017-02-10 Thread Jeff Johnson
t; > /etc/modprobe.d/lustre.conf: > > options lnet networks=tcp0(enp4s0),o2ib0(ib1) > options ko2iblnd map_on_demand=32 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Andrus <toomuc...@gmail.com> > Date: Friday, February 10, 2017 at 12:07 AM > To: Darby Vicker <dar

Re: [lustre-discuss] design to enable kernel updates

2017-02-10 Thread Vicker, Darby (JSC-EG311)
, "lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org" <lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org> Subject: Re: [lustre-discuss] design to enable kernel updates Darby, Do you mind if I inquire about the setup for your lustre systems? I'm trying to understand how the MGS/MGT is setup for high availability. I under

Re: [lustre-discuss] design to enable kernel updates

2017-02-09 Thread Brian Andrus
tre-discuss@lists.lustre.org> Subject: Re: [lustre-discuss] design to enable kernel updates It's certainly possible. When I've done that sort of thing, you upgrade the OS on all the servers first, boot half of them (the A side) to the new image, all the targets will fail over to the B server

Re: [lustre-discuss] design to enable kernel updates

2017-02-06 Thread Vicker, Darby (JSC-EG311)
te: Monday, February 6, 2017 at 2:22 PM To: Brian Andrus <toomuc...@gmail.com>, "lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org" <lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org> Subject: Re: [lustre-discuss] design to enable kernel updates It's certainly possible. When I've done that sort of thing, you u

Re: [lustre-discuss] design to enable kernel updates

2017-02-06 Thread Ben Evans
It's certainly possible. When I've done that sort of thing, you upgrade the OS on all the servers first, boot half of them (the A side) to the new image, all the targets will fail over to the B servers. Once the A side is up, reboot the B half to the new OS. Finally, do a failback to the

[lustre-discuss] design to enable kernel updates

2017-02-06 Thread Brian Andrus
All, I have been contemplating how lustre could be configured such that I could update the kernel on each server without downtime. It seems this is _almost_ possible when you have a san system so you have failover for OSTs and MDTs. BUT the MGS/MGT seems to be the problematic one, since