Infrastructure – Page 3 – Marco Santucci

Unlocking High-Performance Storage with Lustre: A Guide for AI, HPC, and Data-Intensive Workloads

Post published:16 October 2024
Post category:Infrastructure Storage Technology

Given the increasingly important role AI is playing in our society, I want to create a series of posts about the backend infrastructures that enable these services to process immense amounts of data per second. A key component in making these massive clusters work is storage, without which HPC clusters would not be able to access and process data. One of the storage solutions used to deliver huge throughput performance is Lustre. Let’s explore what it is, how it works,…

How to setup a linux Virtual IP Failover (IP Floating) on Oracle OCI managed by pacemaker

Post published:14 August 2024
Post category:Cloud Infrastructure Network Tutorial

Introduction In many environments, it is still essential to use infrastructures with an active/passive Linux cluster, which require the use of IP floating. In cloud infrastructures, the secondary IP address must be managed not only by the operating system but also by the cloud infrastructure. In this tutorial, we will see how the IP floating of a Linux cluster can be managed as an integrated resource by Pacemaker, in a simple manner and without custom code, as seen in several…

Integrate on-premise internal DNS zone with private DNS on Oracle OCI VCN.

Post published:5 June 2023
Post category:Infrastructure Network Technology Tutorial

Integrating your private DNS with Oracle OCI's internal DNS can be very useful to extend the capabilities of your LAN in a hybrid cloud environment and facilitate the management of both infrastructures without increasing the workload for internal IT. By leveraging the DNS endpoint provided by OCI, devices in the corporate LAN can reach resources in the cloud environment and vice versa, making service management and integration quick and easy. Prerequesites: Your on-premise LAN is connected in VPN with Oracle…