Re: [HPDD-discuss] Installing Lustre on Ubuntu 14.04

>>>>> "AG" == Akhilesh Gadde <akhilesh.gadde(a)stonybrook.edu&gt; writes: Hi Akhilesh, if you want to make your life simple use Qlustar (qlustar.com). It has ready to use ZFS Lustre (currently 2.6, soon 2.7) based on Ubuntu 14.04. Best, Roland ------- http://www.q-leap.com / http://qlustar.com --- HPC / Storage / Cloud Linux Cluster OS --- AG> Thanks Eli. I was trying to build the server on Ubuntu and AG> couldn't find much help. Yes. I agree that not much work is AG> needed for client since the client module is already AG> incorporated as part of the kernel. Shifted to CentOS now due AG> to time constraints for my project. If James could provide the AG> details on how to do that, I would be glad to test during my AG> spare time and post the details/results to the community. AG> Regards, Akhilesh. AG> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 12:30 PM, E.S. Rosenberg AG> <esr(a)cs.huji.ac.il&gt; wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Akhilesh Gadde >> <akhilesh.gadde(a)stonybrook.edu&gt; wrote: >> > Hi Rosenberg, >> > >> > I have been trying the entire weekend on how to do this. Not >> > finding the right way to do that. :( >> Sorry to hear :( >> >> For clients you don't need anything special, the stock kernel >> should suffice (though you may want a newer kernel for bugfixes >> etc). >> >> For the servers I can't tell you (yet), but it seemed from James' >> post that he built that successfully... >> >> Regards, Eli >> >> PS: this is the ./configure we use to build our clients: >> >> ./configure --disable-modules --disable-server --enable-client >> --prefix=/usr/local/lustre/[version] >> >> >> > >> > >> > Regards, Akhilesh Gadde. >> > >> > On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 7:50 AM, E.S. Rosenberg >> > <esr+hpdd-discuss(a)mail.hebrew.edu&gt; wrote: >> >> >> >> Please report how it went, here we have an all Debian-client >> >> setup but since we/the consultants on the project didn't want >> >> to be guinea pigs we stuck with CentOS 6 servers.... >> >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Simmons, James >> >> A. <simmonsja(a)ornl.gov&gt; wrote: >> >> >>Hi Simmons, >> >> > >> >> >>Thanks for the response. Now I got the confidence that I >> >> >>could deploy >> >> >> Lustre servers on Ubuntu nodes. :) >> >> > >> >> >>I am planning to use ZFS as the backing store. So as you >> >> >>mentioned, I >> >> >> should not be having a problem with that. Also, I am >> >> >> planning to use the latest Lustre version - 2.7. >> >> > >> >> >>In Lustre.org downloads section for 2.7 release, I see the >> >> >>below: >> >> > >> >> >>Can I go with the packages in el6.6 for my deployment? >> >> > >> >> >>(I am guessing that 'el' implies Enterprise Linux and 'sles' >> >> >>implies >> >> >> Solaris enterprise Linux) >> >> > >> >> > There is no prebuilt versus. You need to build yourself. To >> >> > work with the latest code do a >> >> > >> >> > git clone git://git.hpdd.intel.com/fs/lustre-release >> >> > >> >> > cd lustre-release >> >> > >> >> > sh ./autogen.sh >> >> > >> >> > ./configure –with-spl=/where/spl/is >> >> > -–with-zfs=/where/zfs/lives >> >> > >> >> > dpkg-buildpackage -us –uc >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > _______________________________________________ HPDD-discuss >> >> > mailing list HPDD-discuss(a)lists.01.org >> >> > https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/hpdd-discuss >> >> > >> > >> > >> AG> _______________________________________________ HPDD-discuss AG> mailing list HPDD-discuss(a)lists.01.org AG> https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/hpdd-discuss