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Lustre 1.6 Operations Manual

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CHAPTER 7<br />

More Complicated Configurations<br />

This chapter describes more complicated <strong>Lustre</strong> configurations and includes the<br />

following sections:<br />

■ Multihomed Servers<br />

■ Elan to TCP Routing<br />

■ Load Balancing with Infiniband<br />

■ Multi-Rail Configurations with LNET<br />

7.1 Multihomed Servers<br />

Servers megan and oscar each have three TCP NICs (eth0, eth1, and eth2) and an<br />

Elan NIC. The eth2 NIC is used for management purposes and should not be used<br />

by LNET. TCP clients have a single TCP interface and Elan clients have a single Elan<br />

interface.<br />

7.1.1 Modprobe.conf<br />

Options under modprobe.conf are used to specify the networks available to a<br />

node. You have the choice of two different options – the networks option, which<br />

explicitly lists the networks available and the ip2nets option, which provides a listmatching<br />

lookup. Only one option can be used at any one time. The order of LNET<br />

lines in modprobe.conf is important when configuring multi-homed servers. If a<br />

server node can be reached using more than one network, the first network specified<br />

in modprobe.conf will be used.<br />

7-1

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