High Availability – Marco Santucci

Test Lustre Cluster Throughput and High Availability options

Post published:7 January 2025
Post category:Cloud

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…

SMB protocol on OCI: An analysis of the available options

Post published:10 April 2024
Post category:Cloud

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 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…