About this Document

In this Chapter:

Document Purpose

This document provides detailed instructions for installing Integrated Manager for Lustre software. This document:

Introduces Integrated Manager for Lustre software and its capabilities
Introduces Integrated Manager for Lustre software and its capabilities to configure and support real-time management of Lustre file systems, using a GUI-based dashboard
Provides detailed instructions about how to configure the components to create a file system that meets the High Availability Configuration Specification (discussed herein). Conformance with this specification permits configuration, monitoring, and management of the Lustre file system using the Integrated Manager for Lustre software.
Describes the pre-installation tasks such as configuring servers, establishing yum repositories, configuring LNET, and also discusses Linux* kernel considerations
Describes how to install Integrated Manager for Lustre software
Describes how to configure Integrated Manager for Lustre software
Describes how to add storage servers to the Lustre file system
Provides troubleshooting information

This guide is intended for users who are designing storage solutions based on Integrated Manager for Lustre software.

Readers are assumed to be full-time Linux system administrators or equivalent who have:

experience administering file systems and are familiar with storage components such as block storage, SAN, and LVM
Proficiency in setting up, administering and maintaining networks. Knowledge of LNET is required. Knowledge of InfiniBand* is required if InfiniBand is to be used.
Detailed knowledge of the overall configuration of the storage system and the ability to verify that the configuration matches the configuration requirements as defined in this guide.

This document is not intended for end users of storage solutions implemented using the Integrated Manager for Lustre software.

Conventions used in this document include:

# preceding a command indicates the command is to be entered as root
$ indicates a command is to be entered as a user
<variable_name> indicates the placeholder text that appears between the angle brackets is to be replaced with an appropriate value