[Beowulf] Lustre Upgrades

[Prentice Bisbal]

Paging Dr. Joe Landman, paging Dr. Landman...

Prentice

On 07/24/2018 10:19 PM, James Burton wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with how BeeGFS compares to Lustre? 
> We're looking at both of those for our next generation HPC storage 
> system.
>
> Is CephFS a valid option for HPC now? Last time I played with CephFS 
> it wasn't ready for prime time, but that was a few years ago.
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:58 AM, Joe Landman <joe.landman at gmail.com 
> <mailto:joe.landman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
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>     On 07/24/2018 10:31 AM, John Hearns via Beowulf wrote:
>
>         Forgive me for saying this, but the philosophy for software
>         defined storage such as CEPH and Gluster is that forklift
>         style upgrades should not be necessary.
>         When a storage server is to be retired the data is copied onto
>         the new server then the old one taken out of service. Well,
>         copied is not the correct word, as there are erasure-coded
>         copies of the data. Rebalanced is probaby a better word.
>
>
>     This ^^
>
>     I'd seen/helped build/benchmarked some very nice/fast CephFS based
>     storage systems in $dayjob-1.  While it is a neat system, if you
>     are focused on availability, scalability, and performance, its
>     pretty hard to beat BeeGFS.  We'd ($dayjob-1) deployed several
>     very large/fast file systems with it on our spinning rust, SSD,
>     and NVMe units.
>
>
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