Lustre 1.6 Operations Manual

1. Shut down all clients and servers
2. Install new packages everywhere
3. Edit the Lustre configuration
4. Update the configuration on the MDS with 'lconf --write_conf'
5. Restart
New Network Addressing
A NID is a Lustre network address. Every node has one NID for each network to
which it is attached.
The NID has the form [@], where the is the network
address and is an identifier for the network. (network type + instance)
Examples:
First TCP network: 192.73.220.107@tcp0
Second TCP network: 10.10.1.50@tcp1
Elan: 2@elan
The "--nid '*' " syntax for the generic client is still valid.
Modules/modprobe.conf
Network hardware and routing are now configured via module parameters,
specified in the usual locations. Depending on your kernel version and Linux
distribution, this may be /etc/modules.conf,
/etc/modprobe.conf, or /etc/modprobe.conf.local.
All old Lustre configuration lines should be removed from the module configuration
file. The RPM install should do this, but check to be certain.
The base module configuration requires two lines:
alias lustre llite
options lnet networks=tcp0
A full list of options can be found at Module Parameters on page 37. Detailed
examples can be found in the section, 'Configuring the Lustre Network'. Some brief
examples:
Example 1: Use eth1 instead of eth0:
options lnet networks="tcp0(eth1)"
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