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<div dir="ltr" >Licensing is complicated and does have anomalies eg I understand that hdfs:// exporting nodes do not need a server license yet nfs:// exporting nodes do. (someone can correct me here if I am wrong but I have seen recent diagrams that show exactly this).</div>
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<div dir="ltr" >In your case, i think there is one simple rule to abide by: If a node has no IBM software on it then it does not need any IBM license. period.</div>
<div dir="ltr" >ie if a generic non-gpfs node mounts a gpfs filesytem via nfs then it can do what it likes downstream, <a href="http://" >http://</a> or otherwise.</div>
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<blockquote data-history-content-modified="1" dir="ltr" style="border-left:solid #aaaaaa 2px; margin-left:5px; padding-left:5px; direction:ltr; margin-right:0px" >----- Original message -----<br>From: "Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services)" <S.J.Thompson@bham.ac.uk><br>Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org<br>To: "gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>Cc:<br>Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] License question<br>Date: Mon, Oct 3, 2016 1:55 PM<br>
<div><font size="2" face="Default Monospace,Courier New,Courier,monospace" >I have a question about licensing.<br><br>If I have a system which is NFS mounting (from a CES node), that is then<br>serving data via HTTP, does this system need to have a Server license?<br><br>Reading the FAQ (in the context of VMs):<br><a href="https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html" target="_blank" >https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html</a><br>"The IBM Spectrum Scale Client may not be used for virtual servers to<br>share IBM Spectrum Scale data directly through any application, service<br>protocol or method, such as NFS, CIFS, FTP, HTTP, or OpenStack Swift"<br><br>My reading of this is that if the VM is mounting via NFS, then as it is<br>not a Spectrum Scale client (rather an NFS client), then it doesn't<br>require a Scale license.<br><br>Secondly. If the VM is mounting from the hypervisor via NFS (Manilla), is<br>the VM then allowed to serve data out by e.g. Web server, or does the<br>hypervisor require a server license to do this. Assuming my hypervisor is<br>licensed for Spectrum Scale of course.<br><br>I think my interpretation is that if a VM is using NFS mounting from<br>either a CES node or using Manilla to the hypervisor, then this is all OK<br>to "re-export" data as the VM isn't talking GPFS protocol. Is this correct?<br><br>Simon<br> <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" target="_blank" >http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a></font><br> </div></blockquote>
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