Storage Overview

About

This package configures an NFS master server to provide user and data filesystems to all slave nodes.

Components

The storage solution is comprised of the following:

• NFS server

  • The NFS server serves redundant network storage (depending on hardware and network configuration) to the client systems in the environment. This allows for distributed access to project and user data.

• Filesystem formatting

  • Ext4
  • or
  • XFS

• Exported filesystems

  • /export/users to be mounted at /users on clients
  • /export/data to be mounted at /data on clients

Key Files

• /etc/sysconfig/nfs
• /etc/exports
• /etc/fstab