
Administration of Cray DVS is very similar to configuring and mounting any Linux file system. For more
information, see the
dvs(5)
man page. Here is a system administrator's view of Cray DVS.
Figure 31. Cray DVS In a Cray System
Cray System
GPFS
Server
Lustre
Server
DVS Server
GPFS Client
XIO
Node
NFS
Server
DVS Client
Compute
Nodes
DVS Client
Compute
Nodes
DVS Client
Compute
Nodes
DVS Server
Lustre Client
XIO
Node
DVS Server
NFS Client
XIO
Node
HSN
6.1.1
Use Cray DVS on Urika-GX
Cray has successfully experimented with connecting Urika-GX to GPFS and NFS filesystems via Cray DVS. For
more information and guidance, please contact Cray Support and visit
https://cray.my.salesforce.com/
.
Major Features of DVS
●
DVS supports failover and failback for parallel modes. The topic describes how it works and includes example
console messages.
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DVS periodic sync promotes data and application resiliency and is more efficient than the DVS mount option
closesync
. The topic describes how it works and how it can be tuned.
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DVS statistics enable analysis of DVS performance on client and server nodes in CLE. There are many per-
mount statistics available with this release.
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DVS can log requests sent to servers to aid in debugging. The topic shows an example log file and describes
how to enable, disable, and reset request logging.
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DVS lists outstanding client requests, including the DVS server node and the amount of time the request has
been waiting for a response.
6.1.2
DVS ioctl Interfaces
The following are provided for advanced users who require DVS
ioctl
interfaces. Most are correlates of
environment variable and mount options with the same name.
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