Stop Buying the Wrong Storage

How to Choose the Right Storage Platform for Each Workload Every few years the storage industry reinvents the same lie. One platform that does everything. Vendors love it because it simplifies sales. Architects love it because it simplifies diagrams. Technicians hate it because physics still exists. Latency, throughput, metadata handling, failure domains and recovery behavior are not marketing features. They decide whether a platform is fast, stable or painful to operate. When storage is chosen wrong, no amount of tuning…

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Test Lustre Cluster Throughput and High Availability options

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdlIhfU2VAU In this video (English subtitled), I demonstrate the aggregate performance of a 4-node Lustre cluster (3 OSS + 1 MDS/MGS) and the block volumes provided by Oracle OCI. Of course, this is a functionality test and not a production POC. In addition to understanding and observing the aggregate performance that only 3 active OSS nodes can deliver, I wanted to test 2 failover systems between OSS1 and OSS2 nodes (OSS3 is unpaired and works without failover). 1 - The…

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