HEPiX Spring 2008

High Availability and Backup Strategies for the lustre MDS Server

8 May 2008, 11:15

30m

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

HEPiX "bazaar and thinktank" HEPiX "bazaar and thinktank"

Speaker

Karin Miers (GSI)

Summary

The MDS Server is the heart of the Lustre file system. It manages the cluster and contains the meta data of the file system. Standard Linux tools are used to make this service highly available. Moreover, a special backup strategy was developed to allow a fast desaster recovery in case of failure.

Presentation materials

Slides

kmiers-gsi-lustre-ha-backup.pdf