Hi Wahid,
DPM is among a number of different solutions we're looking at. I don't
believe it's made it to the evaluation phase though. Shaun or Brian have
been more involved in the group than I have and would be able to say why
this is the case.
Matt
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Wahid Bhimji wrote:
> Hi Matt
>
> Are you considering DPM for the Tier 1 evaluation of alternative disk-only storage solutions?
>
> Wahid
>
> On 18 Jul 2012, at 09:40, Matthew Viljoen wrote:
>
> Hi Chris (et al.)
>
> Thanks for your responses. I'll give it a go and let you know how I get
> on.
>
> Matt
>
> On 17/07/2012 15:32, "Christopher J.Walker" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> On 17/07/12 14:54, Sam Skipsey wrote:
>
> hi Matt,
>
>
> As far as I am aware, no-one has done a Bestman/Lustre install
>
> (certainly not in production, or in the UK).
>
>
> The most experienced Storm/Lustre wrangler is, of course, Chris
>
> Walker, who I'm sure will be along any second now with tips.
>
>
> https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Grid_Storage
>
>
> And the official documentation at
>
>
> http://storm.forge.cnaf.infn.it/home
>
>
> Would be good places to start.
>
>
> QMUL runs all of StoRM on one machine[1]. I'd advise you do the same -
>
> at least for starters.
>
>
> You need acls and xattrs enabled on Lustre.
>
>
> I think we should probably enable them on the MDS, but currently we
>
> enable on the clients on mount:
>
>
> mount -t lustre -o flock -o user_xattr mds01@tcp0:/lustre_0 /mnt/lustre_0
>
>
>
> QMUL is using StoRM 1.8.2
>
>
> [root@se03 ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i storm
>
> storm-xmlrpc-c-1.25.10-1206.2181.sl5
>
> yaim-storm-4.1.8-1.sl5
>
> storm-globus-gridftp-server-1.1.0-6.sl5
>
> storm-xmlrpc-c-client-1.25.10-1206.2181.sl5
>
> storm-frontend-server-1.7.3-1.sl5
>
> storm-backend-server-1.8.2-2.sl5
>
> storm-frontend-server-debuginfo-1.7.1-5.sl5.dbg
>
> storm-dynamic-info-provider-1.7.4-1.sl5
>
>
> Latest version is 1.9.
>
>
> I can't work out how to get https support working (but other people seem
>
> to have, and I'd like to).
>
>
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> Sam
>
>
> On 17 July 2012 14:12, Matthew Viljoen <[log in to unmask]>
>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> As part of the Tier 1 evaluation of alternative disk-only storage
>
> solutions, I have setup a mini 100TB Lustre service. I would now like
>
> to
>
> set up Storm/Bestman in front of it to test it alongside other
>
> solutions.
>
>
> If anyone can provide me with pointers to documentation how they have
>
> deployed Storm/Bestman with Lustre, I will be grateful.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Matt
>
>
>
>
> [1] Well, strictly that's untrue, we have a second machine running
>
> gridftp in order to make use of the college's second link, but RAL
>
> wouldn't need to do that.
>
>
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