Add clients

To use DPDK mounts, WEKA requires client instances to have at least two NICs, one for management and one for the frontend data. It is possible to add more NICs for redundancy and higher performance.

A client with NICs in the same VPC networks and subnets as the Weka Cluster can access the cluster. If a client is on another VPC network, peering is required between the VPC networks.

The client instance must be in the same region as the WEKA cluster on GCP.

Mount the filesystem

1. Create a mount point (only once): mkdir /mnt/weka

2. Install the Weka agent (only once): curl <backend server http address>:14000/dist/v1/install | sh Example: curl http://10.20.0.2:14000/dist/v1/install | sh

3. Mount a stateless client on the filesystem:

   • DPDK mount (the client needs to have at least two NICs): mount -t wekafs -o net=ethX <backend server IP address>/<filesystem name> /mnt/weka

     Example: mount -t wekafs -o net=eth1 10.20.30.40/fs1 /mnt/weka

   • UDP mount: mount -t wekafs -o net=udp <backend server IP address>/<filesystem name> /mnt/weka Example: mount -t wekafs -o net=udp 10.20.30.40/fs1 /mnt/weka

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