5–9 May 2008
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

High Availability and Backup Strategies for the lustre MDS Server

8 May 2008, 11:15
30m
503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

503/1-001 - Council Chamber

CERN

Route de Meyrin CH-1211 Genève 23 Switzerland
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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.

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