Building a Lustre Filesystem on a Mini PC

Building a Lustre Filesystem on a Mini PC Introduction Lustre is a high-performance parallel filesystem used in many of the world’s largest supercomputers, but you don’t need a million-dollar HPC cluster to learn how it works. In this post, I’ll walk through setting up a functional Lustre filesystem using nothing more than a mini PC running Proxmox VE in my homelab. While this setup won’t handle production workloads, it’s perfect for understanding Lustre’s architecture and getting hands-on experience with its components. ...

September 14, 2025 · 8 min · 1549 words