Media Export in Lustre with Incinerator

 
 
 

Whne using the Media Export feature in Lustre with Incinerator, it is important to keep certain considerations in mind.

The Incinerator configuration uses Browsed and Lustre Media Server (LMS) for media access over InfiniBand. In this configuration, the Backburner Manager runs on the LMS. You must configure the remote server (Linux / Mac OS X) to use the LMS as the Backburner Manager.

To speed up media transfers between the LMS and the Linux servers used for media export, make sure the Wiretap Gateway configuration file is set to use InfiniBand as the main network interface. To acheive this:

  1. As root, open the following file: /usr/discreet/wiretapgateway/cfg/wiretapgateway.cfg.
  2. Define the server IP address in the IP0 line: IP0=10.0.10.1
  3. Save the file.
  4. Restart the Wiretap Gateway server with the following command: /etc/init.d/wiretapgateway restart.

Your Wiretap Gateway server is now configured to use InfiniBand as the main network interface.