# Getting Started with Lustre

Verify that your environment meets the system requirements, complete the file server service catalog, add a subclient, and then perform a test backup and restore.

## Procedure

1. Verify that your environment meets the system requirements for Lustre.

   - Lustre is supported only on Red Hat-based Linux Distributions (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Oracle Linux with Red-Hat-compatible Kernel, Rocky Linux) and SuSE Linux.

   - Lustre is supported only on x64 processors.

   - Lustre 2.5, 2.8, 2.10, 2.12, and 2.15 are supported.

   - The fileset feature in Lustre is not supported.

   Hard Drive

   Component | Space required
   --- | ---
   Software | 1 GB
   Tmp folder | 1024 MB
   Job results folder | To calculate the disk space requirements for the job results directory, see Job Results Directory Disk Space Calculation.
   Log folder (by default, /var/log) | 1024 MB

   Memory (RAM)

   - 2 GB or more

   - An additional 1.5 GB for every 500,000 folders in the backup data

2. Verify Data Access node requirements.

   - Keyless SSH must be set up between the MDT server and the data access nodes.

3. Complete the service catalog.

4. Perform a backup.

5. Perform a restore.

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