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Describe the steps you need to get a Lustre system (MGS, MDT, MDS, OSS, OST, client) up and running on a cluster of three machines.

Prerequisite

• Three machines, networked together: client-10, client-11, client-12
• Able to use fdisk to create primary partitions from unallocated disk space.

Overview

The chosen platform is:

• Centos 5
• Lustre 2.x, most recent build from build.whamcloud.com.

The Lustre topology will be:

• lustre file system name is lustrewt (lustre walk through)
• client-12 (IB: 192.168.4.12) for the OSS and OST.
• client-11 (IB: 192.168.4.11) for the MGT, MDS and MDT.
• client-10 (IB: 192.168.4.10) for the client.

This document is based on: section 4.1 Configuring the Lustre File System from the Lustre File System, Operations Manual - Version 2.x

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