OCI File Storage with Lustre: High-Performance, Managed File System for AI

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers File Storage with Lustre—a fully managed, high-performance file system tailored for demanding workloads such as AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing (HPC).

Key Highlights:

• Fully Managed Infrastructure
  OCI handles deployment, maintenance, scaling, and management of Lustre components—including metadata servers, management servers, and storage servers—letting you focus on your applications, not infrastructure. 

• Parallel and Distributed Architecture
  Designed for massive data volumes, this system delivers high aggregate throughput by distributing I/O workload across server components. 

• Performance Tiers for Flexibility
  Choose from different bandwidth configurations:

  • 125 MB/s per TiB (1 Gbps)

  • 250 MB/s per TiB (2 Gbps)

  • 500 MB/s per TiB (4 Gbps)

  • 1000 MB/s per TiB (8 Gbps)
    Administrators can also tweak performance using Lustre's lfs tools, including features like file striping and Progressive File Layout (PFL). 

• Client Compatibility
  OCI supports Lustre version 2.15.5. Compatible client environments include:

  • Ubuntu 22.04 (kernel 5.15.x)

  • Oracle Linux 8 (RHCK 4.18)

• Global Availability
  This service is available across multiple OCI regions (at the time of writing this blog) —such as Sydney, Frankfurt, São Paulo, Montréal, Tokyo, Amsterdam, and more—ensuring localized access and compliance. 

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Bottom Line:

OCI File Storage with Lustre provides a scalable, high-throughput file system custom-built for data-intensive workloads. With its fully managed infrastructure and multiple performance configurations, it’s an ideal fit for running AI training jobs which needs high performance computing needs.