<html><body><p>It is probably not what you are looking for, but I did implement a two node HA solution using callbacks for SNMP. You could do something like that in the near term.<br><br><a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/General%20Parallel%20File%20System%20%28GPFS%29/page/Implementing%20a%20GPFS%20HA%20SNMP%20configuration%20using%20Callbacks">https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/General%20Parallel%20File%20System%20%28GPFS%29/page/Implementing%20a%20GPFS%20HA%20SNMP%20configuration%20using%20Callbacks</a><br><br>Scott Fadden<br>Spectrum Scale - Technical Marketing <br>Phone: (503) 880-5833 <br>sfadden@us.ibm.com<br><a href="http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/spectrum/scale">http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/spectrum/scale</a><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=07BBF469DFFABF858f9e8a93df938690918c07B@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for "service@metamodul.com" ---11/11/2015 08:58:03 AM---@IBM"><font color="#424282">"service@metamodul.com" ---11/11/2015 08:58:03 AM---@IBM</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">"service@metamodul.com" <service@metamodul.com></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@gpfsug.org></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">11/11/2015 08:58 AM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS and High Availability , GPFS and the System i (AS/400 )</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Sent by: </font><font size="2">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><br><font size="4">@IBM</font><br><font size="4"> </font><br><font size="4">GPFS and HA</font><br><font size="4"> </font><br><font size="4">GPFS has now the so called protocol nodes which do provide a HA environment for NFS and SAMBA.</font><br><font size="4">I assume its based on the CTDB since the CTDB is currently supporting a few protocols already.*</font><br><font size="4"> </font><br><font size="4">What i would like to see is a generic HA interface using GPFS. It could be based on the CTDB , native GPFS callbacks or any service providing HA functionality based on a clustered FS.</font><br><font size="4">Such a service would allow - only with minor extentions - to make almost any service (Oracle,DB2,FTP,SSH,NFS,CRON,TSM a.s.o ) HA.</font><br><font size="4">So IMHO the current approach is a little bit shortsighted.</font><br><font size="4"> </font><br><font size="4"> </font><br><font size="4">GPFS and System i</font><br><font size="4"> I looking forward the day we have a SQL interface/API to GPFS. Thus storing DB objects natively on a GPFS thus not using any kind of addional DB files.</font><br><font size="4">Now if you would have such an interface what about a general modern language which supportr SQL and is multi node runable ?</font><br><font size="4"> </font><br><font size="4">Who knows ... Maybe the AS/400 gets reinvented</font><br><font size="4"> </font><br><font size="4">cheers</font><br><font size="4">Hajo</font><br><font size="4"> </font><br><font size="4">Reference: </font><br><font size="4"> * </font><a href="https://ctdb.samba.org/documentation.html"><u><font size="4" color="#0000FF">https://ctdb.samba.org/documentation.html</font></u></a><br><font size="4"> </font><tt>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br></tt><tt><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a></tt><tt><br></tt><br><br><BR>
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