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 Operations
- Lustre Maintenance
- Managing Lustre Networking (LNet)
- LNet Software Multi-RailL 2.10
- Upgrading a Lustre File System
- Backing Up and Restoring a File System
- Managing File Layout (Striping) and Free Space
- Data on MDT (DoM)L 2.11
- Managing the File System and I/O
- Lustre File System Failover and Multiple-Mount Protection
- Configuring and Managing Quotas
- Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)L 2.5
- Mapping UIDs and GIDs with NodemapL 2.9
- Configuring Shared-Secret Key (SSK) SecurityL 2.9
- Managing Security in a Lustre File System
- Lustre ZFS Snapshots
The starting point for administering a Lustre file system is to monitor all logs and console logs for system health:
- Monitor logs on all servers and all clients.
- Invest in tools that allow you to condense logs from multiple systems.
- Use the logging resources provided in the Linux distribution.