HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share - Manual (Page 11)

1 What's In This Version
1.1 About This Product
HP SFS G3.0-0 uses the Lustre File System on MSA2000fc hardware to provide a storage system
for standalone servers or compute clusters.
Currently, HP SFS servers V2.3 and earlier cannot be upgraded because G3.0-0 supports MSA2000
storage only. Contact your HP representative for updates on the status of upgrade support for
both servers and clients.
1.2 Benefits and Features
HP SFS G3.0-0 consists of a software set required to provide high performance and highly available
Lustre File System service over InfiniBand for HP MSA2000fc storage hardware. The software
stack includes:
• Lustre Software 1.6.6
• Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 1.3
• Heartbeat V2.1.3
• HP multipath drivers
• collectl (for system performance monitoring)
• pdsh for running file system server-wide commands
• Other scripts, tests and utilities
1.3 Supported Configurations
HP SFS G3.0-0 supports the following configurations:
Table 1-1 Supported Configurations
Supported Component
RHEL5U2, SLES10 SP2, XCV4 Client Operating Systems
Opteron, Xeon Client Platform
V1.6.6 Lustre Software
RHEL5U2 Server Operating System
ProLiant DL380 G5 Server Nodes
MSA2000fc Storage Array
OFED 1.3 InfiniBand Interconnect
SAS, SATA Storage Array Drives
8.10 and later ProLiant Support Pack (PSP)
1.3.1 Hardware Configuration
A typical HP SFS system configuration consists of the base rack only which contains:
• ProLiant DL380 MetaData Servers (MDS), administration servers, and Object Storage Servers
(OSS)
• HP MSA2000fc enclosures
• Management network ProCurve Switch
• SAN switches
• InfiniBand switches
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