File Storage with Lustre

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) File Storage with Lustre is a fully managed service that delivers the performance and scale benefits of Lustre—including milliseconds of meta-data latency, capacity to petabytes, and high throughput of terabytes per second—while eliminating the complexity of management. OCI fully automates and manages the file system deployment, scaling, and maintenance so you can focus on your high performance applications.

Why Choose OCI File Storage with Lustre

  • Performance at scale

    Access Lustre File Storage from thousands of clients and GPUs in parallel. Lustre File Storage enables high, sustained performance for each terabyte of provisioned capacity.

  • Easy deployment

    Create a file system in minutes using the Oracle Cloud Console, command-line tools, APIs, software developer kits, or terraform.

  • Seamless copy to object storage

    Link your Lustre file system to an OCI Object Storage bucket to copy object storage data on demand and access it directly from the Lustre file system.*



*Enabled by request through limited availability program


Product Tour–Getting started with OCI File Storage with Lustre

Easy-to-use console view

Easy-to-use console

Easily create a file system from the Oracle Cloud Console, CLI, or APIs. To create your own Lustre file system, navigate to Lustre File Storage in the Storage section of the Oracle Cloud Console.

Create a new Lustre file system view

Create a new Lustre file system

Enter the file system name and mount name and specify the compartment you want your file system to use.

Select performance tier and capacity view

Select performance tier and capacity

Choose your performance tier and specify the capacity you need.

OCI File Storage with Lustre use cases

OCI File Storage with Lustre diagram, description below A diagram with three panels, each depicting a business use case for File Storage with Lustre. Panel one depicts using Lustre with GPUs to enable high throughput and accelerate AI/ML training, inferencing, and checkpointing. Panel two depicts using Lustre with HPC systems to enable the high I/O needed for scientific simulations and supercomputing. Panel three depicts using Lustre with Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) to deploy cloud native AI/ML or HPC applications.

Get started with OCI File Storage with Lustre


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