Part III: Administering Lustre
Part III provides information about tools and procedures to use to administer a Lustre file system. You will find information in this section about:
- Monitoring a Lustre File System
- Lustre Maintenance
- Managing Lustre Networking (LNet)
- Upgrading a Lustre File System
- Backing Up and Restoring a File System
- Managing File Layout (Striping) and Free Space
- Managing the File System and I/O
- Lustre File System Failover and Multiple-Mount Protection
- Configuring and Managing Quotas
- Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)
- Mapping UIDs and GIDs with Nodemap
- Configuring Shared-Secret Key (SSK) Security
- Managing Security in a Lustre File System
- Lustre ZFS Snapshots
Tip
The starting point for administering a Lustre file system is to monitor all logs and console logs for system health:
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Monitor logs on all servers and all clients.
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Invest in tools that allow you to condense logs from multiple systems.
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Use the logging resources provided in the Linux distribution.