HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share - Manual (Page 4)

4 Installing and Configuring HP SFS Software on Client Nodes...............................37
4.1 Installation Requirements...............................................................................................................37
4.1.1 Client Operating System and Interconnect Software Requirements......................................37
4.1.2 InfiniBand Clients....................................................................................................................37
4.1.3 10 GigE Clients........................................................................................................................37
4.2 Installation Instructions...................................................................................................................38
4.3 Custom Client Build Procedures.....................................................................................................39
4.3.1 CentOS 5.2/RHEL5U2 Custom Client Build Procedure..........................................................39
4.3.2 SLES10 SP2 Custom Client Build Procedure...........................................................................39
5 Using HP SFS Software................................................................................................41
5.1 Creating a Lustre File System..........................................................................................................41
5.1.1 Creating the Lustre Configuration CSV File...........................................................................41
5.1.1.1 Multiple File Systems......................................................................................................43
5.1.2 Creating and Testing the Lustre File System...........................................................................43
5.2 Configuring Heartbeat....................................................................................................................44
5.2.1 Preparing Heartbeat................................................................................................................45
5.2.2 Generating Heartbeat Configuration Files Automatically......................................................45
5.2.3 Configuration Files..................................................................................................................45
5.2.3.1 Generating the cib.xml File..........................................................................................47
5.2.3.2 Editing cib.xml.............................................................................................................47
5.2.4 Copying Files...........................................................................................................................47
5.2.5 Starting Heartbeat...................................................................................................................48
5.2.6 Monitoring Failover Pairs........................................................................................................48
5.2.7 Moving and Starting Lustre Servers Using Heartbeat............................................................48
5.2.8 Things to Double-Check..........................................................................................................49
5.2.9 Things to Note.........................................................................................................................49
5.3 Starting the File System...................................................................................................................49
5.4 Stopping the File System.................................................................................................................50
5.5 Testing Your Configuration.............................................................................................................50
5.5.1 Examining and Troubleshooting.............................................................................................50
5.5.1.1 On the Server...................................................................................................................50
5.5.1.2 The writeconf Procedure.................................................................................................52
5.5.1.3 On the Client...................................................................................................................53
5.6 Lustre Performance Monitoring......................................................................................................54
6 Licensing........................................................................................................................55
6.1 Checking for a Valid License...........................................................................................................55
6.2 Obtaining a New License................................................................................................................55
6.3 Installing a New License.................................................................................................................55
7 Known Issues and Workarounds................................................................................57
7.1 Server Reboot...................................................................................................................................57
7.2 Errors from install2....................................................................................................................57
7.3 Application File Locking.................................................................................................................57
7.4 MDS Is Unresponsive......................................................................................................................57
7.5 Changing group_upcall Value to Disable Group Validation.....................................................57
7.6 Configuring the mlocate Package on Client Nodes......................................................................58
7.7 System Behavior After LBUG..........................................................................................................58
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