Introduction Lustre is a filesystem often used by clusters because many computers can mount the filesystem simultaneously. This is a small log/instruction for how to setup Lustre in 3 virtualized machines (one metadata server, one object storage server and one client). Basic components: VMWare Workstation 3 x CentOS 6 …

Say what?? Access Gateway - Brocade NPV (great discussion in the comments on this post by the way) (N_port Virtualization (not NPIV) - Cisco Transparent Mode - QLogic These are all names for the basic idea / functionality but as there's no standard the vendors have made up their own names for it. A …