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Which is the fastest way to move 1Petabyte from one storage to a new one?

First of all, thanks for reading, and sorry for asking something related to my job. I understand that this is something that I should solve by myself but as you will see its something a bit difficult. ...
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What makes Lustre faster and more scalable than NFS?

I have read in various places (e.g. here and here) that NFS' I/O performance does not scale, while Lustre's does, and that Lustre can deliver better I/O rates in general. There seem to be various ...
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Are snapshots and clones filesystem-wide in ZFS-backed Lustre clusters

My goal is to find a distributed filesystem on Linux that supports ZFS-like lightweight snapshots and snapshot clones. This StackOverflow question expresses what I'm looking for pretty well. I'm ...
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MySQL files on Lustre?

Our MySQL installation stores several Tb of data that doesn't get accessed too often. Over the next six months we're going to be moving to a Lustre based system for much of our data storage and Im ...
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How do we configure Lustre to block client requests when under load, rather than failing?

We are using Lustre in a cluster with approximately 200TB of storage, 12 Object Storage Targets (that connect to a DDN storage system using QDR Infiniband), and roughly 160 quad and 8-core compute ...
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Lustre - is this bad form? [closed]

Im going to be consolidating several 'server rooms' into a single installation soon. Part of this effort will be finding a home for 5Tb (and growing) of files / logs. To this end Im looking at Lustre ...
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Lustre - issues with simple setup

Issue: I'm trying to assess the (possible) use of Lustre for our group. To this end I've been trying to create a simple system to explore the nuances. I can't seem to get past the 'llmount.sh' test ...