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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you for admitting me to the discussion group, I work at Kingston University within the ‘Hosting Services Team’<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We have recently implemented a 17 node GPFS 3.5.0.20 cluster that serves Samba 4.1.12, the Cluster is configured with 2 failure domains and is located across 2 physical campus’s, with a quorum desc disk located at a 3<sup>rd</sup> site.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The intention is to provide a single namespace for all university unstructured data, the cluster is joined to our AD environment and provisions the home directories for all staff and students (45000+) accounts and will be the repository for all shared data.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So far we have migrated all our students and approximately 60% of our staff.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Looking forward to receiving some interesting posts from the forum.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tony.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Tony McNeil<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Senior Systems Support Analyst, Infrastructure, </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Information Services<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>______________________________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00AFF0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00AFF0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>T </span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Internal: 62852<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00AFF0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>T </span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> 020 8417 2852<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Kingston University </span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>London<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00AFF0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="http://www.kingston.ac.uk"><span style='color:blue'>www.kingston.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#6D6E70;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Information in this email and any attachments are confidential, and may not be copied or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor disclosed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#6D6E70;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>to any third party without our permission. There is no intention to create any legally binding contract or other commitment through the use of this email.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#6D6E70;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Please consider the environment before printing this email.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><br clear="both">
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