The steps below will show how to create a Lustre Cluster on Microsoft'a Azure infrastructure. It will start with a Lustre template in the Azure marketplace.
You will need an Azure account.
Login to your account and go to the dashboard. You can get to the dashboard from anywhere by clicking on the blue "Microsoft Azure" in the upper left corner of the GUI.
To get started click on "New" to get ready to start deployments of a new instance of Lustre
In the search box that appears, type "lustre" and hit return. For some reason the completions that start to show up do not work as expected
choose the version ending in "GS" and choose "create". This will open the GUI to fill out the Lustre template.
In the screen that appears you will fill out the fields in the template.
Lustre Prefix Name - this will be prepended to the names of the lustre VM hosts. For example here it is specified as ldemo so our MGS node will be ldemomgs.
Admin Username - This is the username for the administor account. Here it is left at the default "azureuser".
Password Type - You can choose to use a password or a key. You can cut and paste a public key here. For windows you can load your private key into puttygen and save your public key. Its contents can be pasted here. Whatever you do here will be propagated to all the VMs in the Lustre Cluster.
Resource Group - Is the unique name for your group of resources (the resources that make up your Lustre cluster).
Location - Choose the Azure region you would like to deploy to from the drop down list.
When done hit "OK" to move to the next screen.
Public IP address name - This is the resource name for the public IP address. Not the hostname of the MGS which is what you will ssh into.
Domain name Label - This is the hostname of the public MGS node. Note that underneath the box is the rest of the public address.
Next click on th MGS VM Size to select the VM type for the MGS node.
Here you can choose the type of VM for the Management server (MGS). The current selection is outlined by the blue box. When done hit select in the right pane to chose the MGS and then OK to finish the MGS selection.
Next we will fill out the infomation for creating our Meta-Data server (MDS)
Fill out the name you would like for the Lustre filesytem and like the MGS choose the type of VM you would like to use.
First chose the number of Object Storage Servers (OSS) you would like to use from the drop down list.
Also choose the size of each of the 3 OSTs that will be attached to your OSS
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