Lustre 101

These slides were originally hosted by ORNL in 2016 as part of a self-paced web-based course series designed to provide an introduction to Lustre. The course was targeted at experienced system administrators who were relatively new to Lustre. Although the content may be old, some of information/concepts presented in this course are still relevant to newer versions of Lustre.

• Introduction to Lustre
• Hardware Selection and Benchmarking for Lustre
• Basic Lustre Installation and Setup from Stock RPMs
• Creating a Lustre Test System from Source with Virtual Machines
• Lustre Tuning and Advanced LNet Configuration
• File System Administration and Monitoring
• Analysis of Crash Dumps and Log Files
• Methods for Evaluating the Functionality, Performance, and Reliability of Lustre

The following tutorials were presented at the International Workshop on the Lustre Ecosystem held in 2015 and 2016:

• How to Install, Tune, and Monitor a ZFS Based Lustre File System presented by Marc Stearman (LLNL)