</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>For hardware and system requirements and hardware configuration
- information, see
+ information, see
<xref linkend="settinguplustresystem" />.</para>
<section xml:id="dbdoclet.50438261_99193">
<title>
</indexterm>Preparing to Install the Lustre Software</title>
<para>You can install the Lustre software from downloaded packages (RPMs)
or directly from the source code. This chapter describes how to install the
- Lustre RPM packages. For information about installing from source code, see
-
- <xref linkend="installinglustrefromsourcecode" />.</para>
- <para>The Lustre RPM packages have been tested on the Linux distributions
- listed in the table below.</para>
- <para>
- <table frame="all" xml:id="LustreTestMatrixTable">
- <title>Lustre Test Matrix</title>
- <tgroup cols="3">
- <colspec colname="c1" colnum="1" colwidth="1*" />
- <colspec colname="c2" colnum="2" colwidth="1.1*" />
- <colspec colname="c3" colnum="3" colwidth="1.46*" />
- <thead>
- <row>
- <entry>Lustre Release</entry>
- <entry>Servers Tested
- <superscript>1</superscript></entry>
- <entry>Clients Tested</entry>
- </row>
- </thead>
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>
- <para>2.0</para>
- </entry>
- <entry>
- <para>RHEL 5, CentOS 5</para>
- </entry>
- <entry>
- <para>RHEL 5, CentOS 5, SLES 11 SP0</para>
- </entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>
- <para>2.1.x</para>
- </entry>
- <entry>
- <para>RHEL 5, CentOS 5, RHEL 6, CentOS 6</para>
- </entry>
- <entry>
- <para>RHEL 5, CentOS 5, RHEL 6, CentOS 6, SLES 11 SP1</para>
- </entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>
- <para>2.2</para>
- </entry>
- <entry>
- <para>RHEL 6, CentOS 6</para>
- </entry>
- <entry>
- <para>RHEL 5, CentOS 5, RHEL 6, CentOS 6, SLES 11 SP1</para>
- </entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>
- <para>2.3</para>
- </entry>
- <entry>
- <para>RHEL 6.3, CentOS 6.3</para>
- </entry>
- <entry>
- <para>RHEL 6.3, CentOS 6.3, RHEL 5.8, CentOS 5.8, SLES 11
- SP1</para>
- </entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>2.4.x</entry>
- <entry>
- <para>RHEL 6.4, CentOS 6.4</para>
- </entry>
- <entry>
- <para>RHEL 6.4, CentOS 6.4, SLES 11 SP2, FC18</para>
- </entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </table>
- </para>
- <para>
- <superscript>1</superscript>Red Hat Enterprise Edition (RHEL), CentOS
- Enterprise Linux Distribution (CentOS), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- (SLES), Fedora
- <superscript>*</superscript>F18 Linux kernel (FC18).</para>
+ Lustre RPM packages. Instructions to install from source code are beyond
+ the scope of this document, and can be found elsewhere online.</para>
+ <para>The Lustre RPM packages are tested on current versions of Linux
+ enterprise distributions at the time they are created. See the release
+ notes for each version for specific details.</para>
<section xml:id="section_rqs_tjw_3k">
<title>Software Requirements</title>
<para>To install the Lustre software from RPMs, the following are
<para>
<emphasis role="bold">
<emphasis role="italic">Lustre server packages</emphasis>
- </emphasis>. The required packages for Lustre servers are listed in
- the table below, where
- <replaceable>ver</replaceable>refers to the Linux kernel distribution
- (e.g., 2.6.32-358.6.2.el6) and
- <replaceable>arch</replaceable>refers to the processor architecture
- (e.g., x86_64). These packages are available in the
+ </emphasis>. The required packages for Lustre 2.9 EL7 servers are
+ listed in the table below, where
+ <replaceable>ver</replaceable> refers to the Lustre release and
+ kernel version (e.g., 2.9.0-1.el7) and
+ <replaceable>arch</replaceable> refers to the processor architecture
+ (e.g., x86_64). These packages are available in the
<link xl:href="https://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Lustre+Releases">
- Lustre Releases</link>repository.</para>
+ Lustre Releases</link> repository, and may differ depending on
+ your distro and version.</para>
<para>
<table frame="all" xml:id="table_cnh_5m3_gk">
<title>Packages Installed on Lustre Servers</title>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>
- <code>kernel-</code>
- <replaceable>ver</replaceable>
- <code>_lustre.</code>
- <replaceable>arch</replaceable>
+ <code>kernel-<replaceable>ver</replaceable>_lustre.<replaceable>arch</replaceable></code>
</entry>
<entry>Linux kernel with Lustre software patches (often
referred to as "patched kernel")</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
- <code>lustre-</code>
- <replaceable>ver</replaceable>
- <code>_lustre.</code>
- <replaceable>arch</replaceable>
+ <code>lustre-<replaceable>ver</replaceable>.<replaceable>arch</replaceable></code>
</entry>
<entry>Lustre software command line tools</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
- <code>lustre-modules-</code>
- <replaceable>ver</replaceable>
- <code>_lustre.</code>
- <replaceable>arch</replaceable>
+ <code>kmod-lustre-<replaceable>ver</replaceable>.<replaceable>arch</replaceable></code>
</entry>
<entry>Lustre-patched kernel modules</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
- <code>lustre-osd-ldiskfs-</code>
- <replaceable>ver</replaceable>
- <code>_lustre.</code>
- <replaceable>arch</replaceable>
+ <code>kmod-lustre-osd-ldiskfs-<replaceable>ver</replaceable>.<replaceable>arch</replaceable></code>
</entry>
- <entry>Lustre back-end file system tools</entry>
+ <entry>Lustre back-end file system tools for ldiskfs-based
+ servers.
+ </entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
- <code>lustre-zfs-ldiskfs-</code>
- <replaceable>ver</replaceable>
- <code>_lustre.</code>
- <replaceable>arch</replaceable>
+ <code>lustre-osd-ldiskfs-mount-<replaceable>ver</replaceable>.<replaceable>arch</replaceable></code>
+ </entry>
+ <entry>Helper library for <literal>mount.lustre</literal>
+ and <literal>mkfs.lustre</literal> for ldiskfs-based servers.
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>
+ <code>kmod-lustre-osd-zfs-<replaceable>ver</replaceable>.<replaceable>arch</replaceable></code>
</entry>
<entry>Lustre back-end file system tools for ZFS. This is
- an alternative to
- <literal>lustre-osd-ldiskfs</literal></entry>
+ an alternative to
+ <literal>lustre-osd-ldiskfs</literal> (kmod-spl and
+ kmod-zfs available separately).</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>
+ <code>lustre-osd-zfs-mount-<replaceable>ver</replaceable>.<replaceable>arch</replaceable></code>
+ </entry>
+ <entry>Helper library for <literal>mount.lustre</literal>
+ and <literal>mkfs.lustre</literal> for ZFS-based servers
+ (zfs utilities available separately).
+ </entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
<code>e2fsprogs</code>
</entry>
- <entry>Utility to maintain Lustre back-end file
- system</entry>
+ <entry>Utilities to maintain Lustre ldiskfs back-end file
+ system(s)
+ </entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
- <code>lustre-tests-</code>
- <replaceable>ver</replaceable>
- <code>_lustre.</code>
- <replaceable>arch</replaceable>
+ <code>lustre-tests-<replaceable>ver</replaceable>_lustre.<replaceable>arch</replaceable></code>
</entry>
<entry>Lustre I/O Kit benchmarking tools
<emphasis role="italic">(Included in Lustre software as of
<para>
<emphasis role="bold">
<emphasis role="italic">Lustre client packages</emphasis>
- </emphasis>. The required packages for Lustre clients are listed in
- the table below, where
- <replaceable>ver</replaceable>refers to the Linux distribution (e.g.,
- 2.6.18-348.1.1.el5). These packages are available in the
+ </emphasis>. The required packages for Lustre 2.9 EL7 clients are
+ listed in the table below, where
+ <replaceable>ver</replaceable> refers to the Linux distribution (e.g.,
+ 3.6.18-348.1.1.el5). These packages are available in the
<link xl:href="https://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Lustre+Releases">
- Lustre Releases</link>repository.</para>
+ Lustre Releases</link> repository.</para>
<para>
<table frame="all" xml:id="table_j3r_ym3_gk">
<title>Packages Installed on Lustre Clients</title>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>
- <code>lustre-client-modules-</code>
- <replaceable>ver</replaceable>
+ <code>kmod-lustre-client-<replaceable>ver</replaceable>.<replaceable>arch</replaceable></code>
</entry>
<entry>Patchless kernel modules for client</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
- <code>lustre-client-</code>
- <replaceable>ver</replaceable>
- <code>_lustre</code>
+ <code>lustre-client-<replaceable>ver</replaceable>.<replaceable>arch</replaceable></code>
</entry>
<entry>Client command line tools</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>
- <code>lustre-client-tests-</code>
- <replaceable>ver</replaceable>
+ <code>lustre-client-dkms-<replaceable>ver</replaceable>.<replaceable>arch</replaceable></code>
</entry>
- <entry>Lustre I/O Kit
- <emphasis role="italic">(Included in Lustre software as of
- release 2.2)</emphasis></entry>
+ <entry>Alternate client RPM to kmod-lustre-client with
+ Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) installation. This
+ avoids the need to install a new RPM for each kernel update,
+ but requires a full build environment on the client.</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
<note>
<para>The version of the kernel running on a Lustre client must be
the same as the version of the
- <code>lustre-client-modules-</code>
- <replaceable>ver</replaceable>package being installed. If the
- kernel running on the client is not compatible, a kernel that is
- compatible must be installed on the client before the Lustre file
- system software is installed.</para>
+ <code>kmod-lustre-client-<replaceable>ver</replaceable></code>
+ package being installed, unless the DKMS package is installed.
+ If the kernel running on the client is not compatible, a kernel
+ that is compatible must be installed on the client before the
+ Lustre file system software is used.</para>
</note>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis role="bold">
- <emphasis role="italic">Lustre LNET network driver (LND)</emphasis>
+ <emphasis role="italic">Lustre LNet network driver (LND)</emphasis>
</emphasis>. The Lustre LNDs provided with the Lustre software are
- listed in the table below. For more information about Lustre LNET,
+ listed in the table below. For more information about Lustre LNet,
see
<xref xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
linkend="understandinglustrenetworking" />.</para>
<entry>gni</entry>
<entry>Gemini (Cray)</entry>
</row>
- <row>
- <entry>Seastar</entry>
- <entry>Cray</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>MX</entry>
- <entry>Myrinet network</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>ra</entry>
- <entry>RapidArray
- <superscript>*</superscript>interconnect</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry>Elan</entry>
- <entry>Quadrics</entry>
- </row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
<emphasis role="italic">(Required)</emphasis>
<emphasis role="italic">
<emphasis role="bold">Disable Security-Enhanced Linux
- <superscript>*</superscript>(SELinux) on all Lustre servers and
- clients.</emphasis>
+ <superscript>*</superscript>(SELinux) on all Lustre servers
+ </emphasis>
</emphasis>The Lustre software does not support SELinux. Therefore,
the SELinux system extension must be disabled on all Lustre nodes.
Also, make sure other security extensions (such as the Novell
<para>The version of the kernel running on a Lustre client must be
the same as the version of the
<literal>lustre-client-modules-</literal>
- <replaceable>ver</replaceable>package being installed. If not, a
+ <replaceable>ver</replaceable> package being installed. If not, a
compatible kernel must be installed on the client before the Lustre
client packages are installed.</para>
</note></para>
</orderedlist>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
- <para>To configure LNET, go to
+ <para>To configure LNet, go to
<xref linkend="configuringlnet" />. If default settings will be used for
- LNET, go to
+ LNet, go to
<xref linkend="configuringlustre" />.</para>
</section>
</chapter>
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