Storage – Page 5 – 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,…

SMB protocol on OCI: An analysis of the available options

Post published:10 April 2024
Post category:Cloud Storage Technology

Many enterprise infrastructures still use the server message block (SMB) protocol. Having a clear understanding of the implementation possibilities and the various associated costs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is crucial. You can consider several options for implementation and support of the SMB protocol in OCI. In this blog post, we explore five solutions. Depending on the required business availability and the amount of data to be allocated, it’s important to evaluate which solution is the most suitable for your…

Deploy an HA SAMBA cluster with Windows Active Directory integration on OCI

Post published:1 February 2024
Post category:Cloud Storage Technology Tutorial

In this post, we discuss how to configure an high availability with automatic failover of SAMBA on UBUNTU instances into Oracle OCI. This solution is a robust and reliable file server infrastructure, leveraging the power of a clustered SMB setup and completly license free. The cost is related only to the consumption (oCPU and Block Volume size). The benefits of implementing a clustered SMB file server service into your organization are multiple: Reliability: The clustered configuration ensures high availability, minimizing…