Date: 25-Nov-2009 URL: global/training/catalog/courses/CL-400.xml

Administering Lustre Based Clusters (CL-400)

The Administering Lustre Based Clusters course is intended for system administrators, architects, and integrators who are interested in deploying Lustre installations and/or performing configuration management. This 5-day class covers installation, best practices, and demonstrations focused on deployment of services and project management procedures. All aspects of configuration, from very simple test clusters to very complex installations featuring failover and multiple networks, will be reviewed.

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Languages

English

Who Can Benefit

Students who can benefit from this course include system administrators, architects, and integrators.

Prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should have some familiarity with Linux.

Skills Gained

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

Describe the Lustre environment
Understand and illustrate the Lustre cluster architecture
Perform installation and initial configuration activities
Troubleshoot and resolve typical operational issues
Explain and perform advanced profiling activities

Course Content

Module 1 - Introduction to Lustre

Describe Lustre
Understand Lustre architecture
List the Lustre features
Describe Lustre software modules
Describe Lustre networking

Module 2 - Architecting Lustre Clusters

List Lustre requirements
Describe server hardware
Describe Lustre node count and size
Describe Lustre networking
Describe storage and throughput

Module 3 - Lustre Configuration

Describe Lustre releases
Describe required download information
Describe Patchless Client information
Install Lustre software
Describe Lustre configuration principles

Module 4 - Building Lustre Cluster

Implement a simple TCP/IP network
Describe Lustre with combined MGS/MDT node
Describe Lustre with separate MGS and MDT nodes
Describe multi-homed servers
Understand Luster networking
Describe basic Lustre configurations
Describe Lustre recovery
Describe what is OST failover
Describe what is MDS failover
Configure MDS and OSTs for failover

Module 5 - The Lustre Client

Describe POSIX compliance
Describe locking
Describe Lustre and quotas
Describe Lustre and ACLs

Module 6 - Backup and Restore of Lustre

Backup Lustre file systems
Restoring Lustre file systems from backup
Create LVM snapshots on a Lustre file system

Module 7 - Advanced LNET

Describe Network bonding
Describe using Lustre with bonding
Set up bonding
Configure Lustre with bonding
Describe Multi-rail networks
Describe LNET routing

Module 8 - Lustre High Availability

High availability discussion
Describe array cache and failover

Module 9 - Troubleshooting Lustre

Describe troubleshooting methodology
Describe the gathering and filing of bug information
Describe LNET troubleshooting
Describe tools and statistic used with Lustre
Describe Lustre I/O Kit