Lustre intel: Setting up a Windows client

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The following instructions are for one (or multiple) linux system(s), which will serve as the middle-layer cluster, which "translates" Lustre to Windows, using Samba.

There are two components that need to be installed:

  1. CTDB
  2. Samba

Pre-Requisites

  • Lustre Client File System mounted with full cluster-coherent locking support on all CTDB nodes:
mkdir -m 0755 -p /mnt/lfs
mount -t lustre -oflock 172.28.50.2@tcp0:172.28.50.3@tcp0:/lfs1 /mnt/lfs/
  • Networking
    Each CTDB node will require three network interfaces on three separate networks inorder to operate correctly:
    1. a high performance data network interface, used to mount the Lustre client file system. This is typically an InfiniBand or 10Gb Ethernet fabric
    2. a private network interface over which all CTDB nodes communicate, sending heartbeats, exchanging data and cluster commands
    3. a public network interface over which clients will connect to the services running on the CTDB cluster, such as Samba
    In our case, networks 1 and 2 are the same (pxe). Here is an example of a CTDB Framework on Lustre:

Ctdb-nodes.png

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