Getting Started with Lustre

Verify that your environment meets the system requirements, complete the file server guided setup, add a subclient, and then perform a test backup and restore.

Procedure

  1. Verify that your environment meets the system requirements for Lustre.

    • Lustre is supported only on Red Hat-based Linux Distributions (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Oracle Linux with Red-Hat-compatible Kernel, Rocky Linux) and SuSE Linux.

    • Lustre is supported only on x64 processors.

    • Lustre 2.5, 2.8, 2.10, 2.12, and 2.15 are supported.

    • The fileset feature in Lustre is not supported.

    Hard Drive

    Component

    Space required

    Software

    1 GB

    Tmp folder

    1024 MB

    Job results folder

    To calculate the disk space requirements for the job results directory, see Job Results Directory Disk Space Calculation.

    Log folder (by default, /var/log)

    1024 MB

    Memory (RAM)

    • 2 GB or more

    • An additional 1.5 GB for every 500,000 folders in the backup data

  2. Verify Data Access node requirements.

    • Keyless SSH must be set up between the MDT server and the data access nodes.
  3. Complete the guided setup.

  4. Perform a backup.

  5. Perform a restore.

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