[slurm-users] Setup for backup slurmctld

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 12:56pm, Brian Andrus wrote

> Any shared filesystem that both systems can get to will work.
>
> I have done it with NFS, Gluster, appliances (NetApp), etc.
>
> Being in a separate datacenter is fine, but you will see some latency, which 
> you likely already addressed if you are pysically splitting a network like 
> that.

Sure, NFS would be the default.  I was just worried about the performance. 
We tried putting the queue directory on NFS with our SGE shadow master 
config, and definitely saw a job throughput/scheduling performance hit. 
Would the hit be less with slurm?

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Wynton Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF