[gpfsug-discuss] GUI server hardware requirements

[ANDREW BEATTIE]

Would be plenty for the gui role as it stands today,
The ESS EMS server does not use SSD at all, and it runs the GUI for an ESS cluster.

However it’s worth noting that there are changes coming to the GUI / rest API as part of the 5.2.0 / 5.2.1 code in 1H 2024

You might want to reach out to your local IBM resource and ask them to put you in touch with one of the developers for the new experience to explain what’s coming in more detail.

Regards,

Andrew Beattie
Technical Sales Specialist - Storage for Big Data & AI
IBM Australia and New Zealand
P. +61 421 337 927
E. abeattie at au1.ibm.com
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Never deployed these before, well slight lie did deploy a GUI server
back in the 3.x days but it didn't do anything useful. I am now looking
to deploy a pair of GUI servers for the ReST API support so we can run
Kubernetes workloads.

The CPU and RAM requirements seem to be quite low. I have a some old
spare servers that can be pressed into service for now that more than
meet the these requirements with 8 cores and 144GB of RAM.

However it just vaguely says "local PV for DB". At the moment the two
servers have a RAID6 array of 300GB 10k disks giving ~1TB of usable.

Is that sufficient space and will it be performant enough? Should I look
to swap them for a RAID 1 of SSD's and what sort of capacity is needed
for this local DB?


JAB.

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University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, Glasgow. G4 0NG

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