- Introducing Intel® Manager for Lustre* Software

# Introducing Intel® Manager for Lustre* Software

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Enterprises and institutions of all sizes use high performance computing to solve today's most intense computing challenges. Just as compute clusters exploit parallel processors and development tools, storage solutions must be parallel to deliver the sustained performance at the large scales that today's applications require. The Lustre* file system is the ideal distributed, parallel file system for high performance computing.

Accordingly, as storage solutions continue to grow in complexity, powerful, yet easy-to-use software tools to install, configure, monitor, manage, and optimize Lustre-based solutions are essential. Intel® Manager for Lustre* software is purpose-built to simplify the deployment and management of Lustre-based solutions. Intel® Manager for Lustre* software reduces management complexity and costs, enabling storage superusers to exploit the performance and scalability of Lustre storage, and accelerate critical applications and work flows.

Intel® Manager for Lustre* software greatly simplifies the creation and management of Lustre file systems, using either the graphical user interface (GUI) or a command line interface (CLI). The GUI dashboard lets you monitor one or more distributed Lustre file systems. Real-time storage-monitoring lets you track Lustre file system usage, performance metrics, events, and errors at the Lustre level. Plug-ins provided by storage solution providers enable monitoring of hardware-level performance data, disk errors and faults, and other hardware-related information.

Intel® EE for Lustre* software, when integrated with Linux, aggregates a range of storage hardware into a single Lustre file system that is well-proven for delivering fast IO to applications across high-speed network fabrics such as InfiniBand* and Ethernet.

An existing Lustre file system that has been set up outside of Intel® Manager for Lustre* software can be monitored, but not managed by the manager. In this case, Lustre commands can be used to manage metadata or object storage servers in the Lustre file system.