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- <info>
- <title xml:id='installoverview.title'>Installation Overview</title>
- </info>
- <para><anchor xml:id="dbdoclet.50438192_pgfId-1306234" xreflabel=""/>This chapter provides on overview of the procedures required to set up, install and configure a Lustre file system.</para>
-
-
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
+<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+ xmlns:xl="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0" xml:lang="en-US"
+ xml:id="installoverview">
+ <title xml:id="installoverview.title">Installation Overview</title>
+ <para>This chapter provides on overview of the procedures required to set up, install and configure a Lustre file system.</para>
<note>
- <para>
- If you are new to Lustre, you may find it helpful to refer to <xref linkend='part.intro'/> for a description of the Lustre architecture, file system components and terminology before proceeding with the installation procedure.</para>
- </note>
-
- <section remap="h2">
- <title>4.1 Steps to Installing Lustre</title>
- <para><anchor xml:id="dbdoclet.50438192_pgfId-1306237" xreflabel=""/>To set up Lustre file system hardware and install and configure the Lustre software, refer the the chapters below in the order listed:</para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para> <emphasis>(Required)</emphasis> Set up your Lustre file System hardware.</para>
- <para><anchor xml:id="dbdoclet.50438192_pgfId-1307046" xreflabel=""/>See <xref linkend='settinguplustresystem'/> - Provides guidelines for configuring hardware for a Lustre file system including storage, memory, and networking requirements.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para> <emphasis>(Optional - Highly Recommended)</emphasis> Configure storage on Lustre storage devices.</para>
- <para><anchor xml:id="dbdoclet.50438192_pgfId-1307007" xreflabel=""/>See <xref linkend='configuringstorage'/> - Provides instructions for setting up hardware RAID on Lustre storage devices.</para>
- <para> <emphasis>(Optional)</emphasis> Set up network interface bonding.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><anchor xml:id="dbdoclet.50438192_pgfId-1307015" xreflabel=""/>See <xref linkend='settingupbonding'/> - Describes setting up network interface bonding to allow multiple network interfaces to be used in parallel to increase bandwidth or redundancy.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><emphasis>(Required)</emphasis> Install Lustre software.</para>
- <para><anchor xml:id="dbdoclet.50438192_pgfId-1307022" xreflabel=""/>See <xref linkend='installinglustre'/> - Describes preparation steps and a procedure for installing the Lustre software.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><emphasis>(Optional)</emphasis> Configure Lustre Networking (LNET).</para>
- <para><anchor xml:id="dbdoclet.50438192_pgfId-1307025" xreflabel=""/>See <xref linkend='configuringlnet'/> - Describes how to configure LNET if the default configuration is not sufficient. By default, LNET will use the first TCP/IP interface it discovers on a system. LNET configuration is required if you are using Infiniband or multiple Ethernet interfaces.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><emphasis>(Required)</emphasis> Configure Lustre.</para>
- <para><anchor xml:id="dbdoclet.50438192_pgfId-1307120" xreflabel=""/>See <xref linkend='configuringlustre'/> - Provides an example of a simple Lustre configuration procedure and points to tools for completing more complex configurations.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><emphasis>(Optional)</emphasis> Configure Lustre Failover.</para>
- <para><anchor xml:id="dbdoclet.50438192_pgfId-1307031" xreflabel=""/>See <xref linkend='configuringfailover'/> - Describes how to configure Lustre failover using the Heartbeat cluster infrastructure daemon.</para>
-
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </section>
+ <para> If the Lustre file system is new to you, you may find it helpful to refer to <xref
+ linkend="part.intro"/> for a description of the Lustre architecture, file system components
+ and terminology before proceeding with the installation procedure.</para>
+ </note>
+ <section remap="h2">
+ <title>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>installing</primary>
+ </indexterm> Steps to Installing the Lustre Software</title>
+ <para>To set up Lustre file system hardware and install and configure the Lustre software, refer the the chapters below in the order listed:</para>
+ <orderedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ <emphasis>(Required)</emphasis>
+ <emphasis role="bold">Set up your Lustre file system hardware.</emphasis></para>
+ <para>See <xref linkend="settinguplustresystem"/> - Provides guidelines for configuring hardware for a Lustre file system including storage, memory, and networking requirements.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para> <emphasis>(Optional - Highly Recommended)</emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">Configure storage on Lustre storage devices.</emphasis></para>
+ <para>See <xref linkend="configuringstorage"/> - Provides instructions for setting up hardware RAID on Lustre storage devices.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para> <emphasis>(Optional)</emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">Set up network interface bonding.</emphasis></para>
+ <para>See <xref linkend="settingupbonding"/> - Describes setting up network interface bonding to allow multiple network interfaces to be used in parallel to increase bandwidth or redundancy.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis>(Required)</emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">Install Lustre software.</emphasis></para>
+ <para>See <xref linkend="installinglustre"/> - Describes preparation steps and a procedure for installing the Lustre software.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis>(Optional)</emphasis>
+ <emphasis role="bold">Configure Lustre Networking (LNet).</emphasis></para>
+ <para>See <xref linkend="configuringlnet"/> - Describes how to configure LNet if the default
+ configuration is not sufficient. By default, LNet will use the first TCP/IP interface it
+ discovers on a system. LNet configuration is required if you are using InfiniBand or
+ multiple Ethernet interfaces.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis>(Required)</emphasis>
+ <emphasis role="bold">Configure the Lustre file system.</emphasis></para>
+ <para>See <xref linkend="configuringlustre"/> - Provides an example of a simple Lustre configuration procedure and points to tools for completing more complex configurations.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para><emphasis>(Optional)</emphasis>
+ <emphasis role="bold">Configure Lustre failover.</emphasis></para>
+ <para>See <xref linkend="configuringfailover"/> - Describes how to configure Lustre
+ failover.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </section>
</chapter>
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