From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
Cc: Lee Eric <openlinuxsource@gmail.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 1 Gb Ethernet based HPC storage deployment plan
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:30:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2BBC00.50902@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110723113027.162de009@galadriel.home>
On 7/23/2011 4:30 AM, Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> Le Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:03:33 +0800 vous écriviez:
>
>> I know it would be better if I can use Lustre but my interconnection
>> is a little slow. I suspect if it is feasible if using such parallel
>> file system.
>>
>> Does anyone has good idea on this deployment?
>>
>
> For this kind of setup, true cluster filesystems like Lustre,
> PVFS2/OrangeFS, Gluster, Ceph... would be much better. Striping 20
> iSCSI volumes across would be awfully dangerous.
>
> I'd go with OrangeFS (pvfs.org) because I'm pretty happy with it so far
> (using XFS as the underlying local filesystem). It's precisely made to
> agreggate computing clusters storage.
Typically one starts looking at hardware solutions after identifying the
needs of the target application/workload.
Is the proposed storage cluster system simply a proof of concept
testbed, or will it actually be tasked with real work? If the latter
I'd rethink your iSCSI export to NFS server idea. You mentioned only 8
disks. Just drop them directly into the NFS host and avoid many
potential headaches down the road.
--
Stan
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2011-07-20 14:03 ` 1 Gb Ethernet based HPC storage deployment plan Lee Eric
2011-07-23 9:30 ` Emmanuel Florac
2011-07-24 6:30 ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
2011-07-25 11:52 ` Lee Eric
2011-07-25 13:58 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-07-25 14:37 ` Lee Eric
2011-07-25 21:53 ` Emmanuel Florac
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