Lustre Administration and Support Level 1

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code.

ES-288

length.

3 days

type.

Instructor-Led

partner.

Sun Microsystems

price.

$2,400 :: $2,040 GSA GOV.

The Lustre Administration and Support Level 1 course is intended for system administrators, architects, and integrators who are interested in deploying Lustre installations and/or performing configuration management. This 3-day class covers theory, 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.

There are currently no scheduled dates for this course. If you are interested in this course, request a course date with the links below.

who can benefit

Students who can benefit from this course include system administrations, 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 details

	Module 1.0 - Introduction

	Course organization
	Handouts
	Exam
	Introductions
	Rules

	Module 1.1 - Understanding Lustre

	What is Lustre?
	Systems in a Lustre cluster
	Lustre features
	Networking options
	Modules
	Where are the files?
	Striping
	File I/O protocol

	Module 1.2 - Architecting Lustre Clusters

	Understanding requirements
	Server hardware
	Node count and size
	Networking
	Storage and throughput

	Module 2.1 - Configuring Lustre 1.6

	Releases and features
	Principles
	Examples
	Failover
	Management

	Module 2.2 - Configuring Lustre 1.4

	Installing and compiling
	Configuration
	Starting / stopping clients, services
	Changing configurations

	Module 3.1 - Troubleshooting

	Methodology
	General actions
	Generating debug information
	Stuck modules
	Network troubleshooting
	Dealing with full OSTs
	Failed OSTs
	Recovery
	Storage failures
	Working at scale
	Understanding error messages

	Module 3.2 - Advanced Profiling

	Tools and statistics
	I/O performance - fragmentation
	I/O performance - I/O kit
	I/O tunables
	Understanding metadata performance
	Metadata tuning