Verify that your environment meets the system requirements, complete the file server guided setup, add a subclient, and then perform a test backup and restore.
Procedure
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Verify that your environment meets the system requirements for Lustre.
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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.
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Lustre is supported only on x64 processors.
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Lustre 2.5, 2.8, 2.10, 2.12, and 2.15 are supported.
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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)
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2 GB or more
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An additional 1.5 GB for every 500,000 folders in the backup data
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Verify Data Access node requirements.
- Keyless SSH must be set up between the MDT server and the data access nodes.